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The engine warning light in my 2007 defender just came on. Typical, it failed on Christmas day. Did a bit of basic checking and can not find anything obviously wrong. The engine will only rev up to 3000 revs now - is this some sort of "get u home" mode. Stopping and restarting the engine makes no difference. Engine warning light stays on. Does this have to be fixed ASAP?

Am I right in thinking that the only way to fix this is going to a garage that has the hardware to read off the error codes?

Thanks, Andy

I had this on my 2003 Defender TD5 and it was the MAF sensor, I disconnected it and the car would start OK and run for a while but if hooked back up it would not rev up and would only limp along.

If I remember correctly yours is a Puma so you need to find someone with the right load in their Nanocom, I dont have one otherwise would be happy to help.

Good Luck

Tommy

Took it to our local garage, owner is club member, and they displayed the error codes (p0404 and P1103) and then reset them and the problem has not come back. Thanks to the replies I received on the forum and via Email. I think I will get one of the units that uses a PC to allow display and resetting error codes.

Thanks, Andy

would be interested to find out what type of unit / software you get.

Thanks,

Tommy

it probably means your egr valve is starting to play up , have a look at your air filter if its oily then get the egr valve off and cleaned before it fails, you can get a spray cleaner for them now from the factors, you will also notice occasional hesitation when speeding up

Just received my test unit. On forum I do not want to go into details of the software but if anyone wants the story they can email me at gm1mqe@aol.com.

Unit comes in two forms - USB attach and bluetooth. I went for the bluetooth as I have had problems using the USB interface for devices. The chip set that is used is VERY sensitive to the software drivers levels. The bluetooth one works fine after a bit of a problem with pairing the device.

Works just fine. The software supplied is one of the best going. It works fine on the Landy (Defender 2007) also on a Ford Fiesta and Focus and I will try on a Landy TD5 as I think it has the OBD port.

Well worth the ?30 I paid and also good email support for setting it up.

BTW It was the stuck EGR valve and it is fine now.

Andy Norrie

I have the bluetooth unit 25 quid off ebay.

Software you can get anywhere, there's apps for android, iphone, programs for windows/mac/linux

If anyone wants details drop me a PM.

This is standard OBD2 dongles and software (nanocom is just OBD2 compliant)

Thomas.
Perhaps we can have a wee chat over this on Sunday in between you breaking Ruari's 110

Tommy,

Certainly... I'll bring my kit along and do a demonstration

Thomas

HEY! No  demo's of breaking my landy.
Parts arrived so should be good to go

Just a warning. I tried the software on my netbook as that is the laptop that is usually in the Landy and have found that collecting live data is a problem. It is fine with my big laptop  (dual core @ 2.6) while the netbook (single core @ 1.6) has a problem. I am sure this is a speed problem with the netbook as when I collected data via a diagnostic program it is dropping some of the data. The netbook was fine at looking at a value and doing things like resetting the engine warning light but not with live data. Just be aware.

Connected the OBD tool to the notebook as well as a fast laptop and monitered the data coming in and it is fine coming over to the fast laptop and bad on the netbook. Some of the data packets are corrupted or truncated. The serial speed it 38.4k so I tried the netbook set to that and fired data to it from a fast machine and it is a problem with the netbook. It is also much worse when using the netbook in battery mode as the processor is only running at just over half the speed it does when on mains.

Cheers, Andy

It depends on the software and the data rate of the Bluetooth of the computer... I'll demo my kit on Sunday

Tried the unit on an old (early TD5) 90 and it did not work.

Andy

td5's are not fully eobd2 compliant as they were on the market before compliance was mandatory which i think was around 2001/2, petrols were slightly earlier

td5's are not fully eobd2 compliant as they were on the market before compliance was mandatory which i think was around 2001/2, petrols were slightly earlier

Sorry yes I should have said only since 01/02 have the td5s been compliant with OBD2, however most will still work