20 Most Recent 1996 Land Rover Discovery - Page 9 Questions & Answers

Your VIN should be located at the bottom of the windshield on a plate fitted to the dash on the driver's side of your vehicle. You would view it from the outside of the vehicle. The VIN should also be fitted to a identification tag on the bottom edge of the door inside or on the door jam.

Stamped on the right hand side chassis member forward of the front spring mounting turret

its the capasator needs replacing you blew it up.

Like many cruise control systems there are the working controls and sepearate master power switch that can disable cruise control so it can't be turned on accidentally. The working controls to set speed, acc and off are on the steering wheel. There is a master power switch though on the center area of the dash next to the left of heater controls on a US model. It is a picture of a road running straight under an overpass.

The system is vaccumm controlled though and if you have a vaccumm leak it will not work. They are pretty easy to fix though and easy to see. Open the hood and find the throttle body assembly. Look for the throttle cable and in that area there should be a black soft plastic hose about the thickness of a pen. If this is diconnected from any connectors or cracked the cruise control won't work. Good Luck!

The spider unit is a small black box of relays, controlled by the immobiliser & alarm, mounted on a panel just in front of (toward the front of the vehicle) and below the radiocassette slot - a very inconvenient position which is designed to be very inaccessible to thieves in a hurry. This contains relays which isolate various key circuits of the vehicle.
Good luck

maybe u need to charge your battery or replace a new one.

easiest way to sort your problem is to change the diff for a 200tdi / Range Rover classsic one, You need a later 24 spline, or you'll have to change the halfshafts too.... then remember when you break it

Hi there,

My brother in law and I changed it without taking anything apart except the fan cover, what you'll need to do is gently use a crobar to release the tensioner pully directly below the alternator, and jam it a bit, then slowly release the old belt, if it's as worn as mine was you'll be fine. Then simply run the new belt starting from the bottom up. There's a great diagram on the weblink below.

http://www.roverparts.com/TechTips/serpentine_belt_routing_D2.cfm

disconnect the thin pipe that connects to a valve which is located between the inlet and exhaust manifolds this will cure it ,promise,older motors never had this at all

no doubt it would fit ,give me some cutting gear and a welder and i will put you in a jag engine.The problem is the paperwork involved ,and finding a technical engineer to draw up a plan with all technical stuff like brake co-efficients and power train values then getting passed through the vehicle inspection test.Best engine is a honda for this car,just buy one with a honda engine.GReat cars the rovers especially the P5

no problem ,its only a bit of noise so dont panic.its caused by either dust or **** in the rear drums underneath the rear brake disks. The rear brakes use disks on the rear but in the middle is brake shoes as its a combined disk and drum set up.Just need a good clean out and rub face of shoes with coarse sand paper.

sounds like the diodes are blown,you can have it repaired or you can fit a recon unit

Switch located topside of gearbox. you will need to reach up anf use "feeling" on this one.

maybe the linkage in the transfer case is busted that could be where the noise is coming from . hope this helps

We left the radio on for an hour and it reset itself back to "code in". We then entered the correct code and it works perfectly

in the gearbox

try spraying leads coil distributer cap inside and out with wd40 but make sure you dry excess fluid off its a must cos it flamable this should do the trick,, so spray on wipe off..

Take the distributer cap off and dry everything it should start then

The pinion bearing preload should be 3 Nm on a pull scale with the side shafts removed.