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Wogger

Member Since: 12 Jun 2016
Location: Nottinghamshire
Posts: 407

Don't get too cocky !!!

After 12 months of trouble free ff motoring, off me and the good lady go with the caravan to Beechwood Grange, York, for a weekend of Christmas merriment !!
Accompanied by some mates in their vans and motorhome.
Come Sunday morning, I opens the tailgate to sit on and enjoy me coffee and bacon buddy, ( you know what's coming) and, hey presto, half hour later I come to hitch up, and it won't start.
So it's out with the battery pack and it kicks up straight away.
Surely half an hour with the tailgate up ain't gonna cause too much of a problem?
The ff has only been stood 48 hours and the battery is less than a year old !!
I love this car, BUT issues like this really make me think is it worth it !!!
Never had this trouble with my old D3 in five years of ownership .
My mate with the Kia Sorrento took the as well, and that hurts

19th Dec 2016 7:39am

builder1966

Member Since: 23 Aug 2016
Location: ashingdon
Posts: 299

2004 Range Rover Vogue Td6 Adriatic Blue

really worth doing the double battery conversion its in the wiki

19th Dec 2016 7:43am

3528cc

Member Since: 29 Oct 2014
Location: North East
Posts: 301

2008 Range Rover Autobiography 4.2 SC V8 Buckingham Blue

I have suffered similar, camping all weekend, tailgate open regularly/extended periods

http://www.fullfatrr.com/forum/topic40084.html , credit to Mattyp

If I have the tailgate open for a long lime now, I latch the upper tailgate lock shut (two clicks)

LED illumination would also be an option Regards
Royston

2008 4.2 Supercharged Autobiography
1994 Classic Vogue SE
1999 Rover BRM
1987 Rover Vitesse Twin Plenum

19th Dec 2016 7:52am

mzplcg

Member Since: 26 May 2010
Location: Warwickshire. England. The Commonwealth.
Posts: 4029

2014 Range Rover Vogue SE SDV8 Corris Grey

Re: Don't get too cocky !!!

Wogger wrote:
I love this car, BUT issues like this really make me think is it worth it !!!

Of course it's worth it. Most days

Wogger wrote:
Never had this trouble with my old D3 in five years of ownership .

I did, with both my D3s. Both ended up with dual batteries.

Wogger wrote:
My mate with the Kia Sorrento took the as well, and that hurts

Yes, he can take the pee, on the odd occasion. All the rest of the time you are in the Fatty, feeling fine and he's in a clattery Korean POS. As Churchill pointed out to his housekeeper when she chastised him for being drunk, "Yes, Madam, I am drunk, and you are ugly. But in the morning I shall be sober and you will still be ugly"

So, stuff to do.
LED conversion inside the car, all 83 million of the interior lights. With filament bulbs at 5 watts each it's like leaving a headlight on all the time.
Dual battery conversion. It's in the WIKI and it gives another 60 or 70 amp hours of capacity. Use a 300 amp relay, fire it from a terminal which goes live when the engine is running and put an over-ride switch on it. If you ever get a low starting battery flick the switch, leave a couple of minutes and she will fire up fine.

I trend to avoid split charge relays as they have diodes in usually and there is a voltage drop across a diode of at least 0.7 volts, 1.4 volts for a rectifier. Relays don't drop, they just connect.

19th Dec 2016 9:22am

Wogger

Member Since: 12 Jun 2016
Location: Nottinghamshire
Posts: 407

Just been out to the ff, and the thing fires up first time

19th Dec 2016 12:51pm

Haylands

Member Since: 04 Mar 2014
Location: East Yorkshire
Posts: 8235

2014 Range Rover Autobiography SDV8 Loire Blue

Get the CCF reprogrammed to not put all the interior lights on when the boot is open, they only stay on for 16mins with it open so you must have done it several times to reduce the battery voltage that far...

I changed all my interior lights for LED and haven't had a problem since.... Pete
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2014 L405 Autobiography SDV8 4.4 Loire Blue Ebony interior
2011 L322 Vogue SE 4.4 TDV8 Baltic Blue. Parchment over Navy Interior. Sold
2012 L322 Autobiography 5.0 Supercharged Ipanema Sand, Jet Interior. Sold
2002 L322 Vogue 4.4 V8 Epson Green, Ivory over Aspen Interior (Fatty Offroader) Sold
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19th Dec 2016 2:22pm

Wogger

Member Since: 12 Jun 2016
Location: Nottinghamshire
Posts: 407

Negative
Boot was only open 30 mins max before I tried to start it !!

19th Dec 2016 3:31pm

Scottyav

Member Since: 11 Feb 2013
Location: Cannock Staffordshire
Posts: 1204

2007 Range Rover Autobiography TDV8 Zambezi Silver

change every bulb to led ive done all my RR over the years and have had doors and tail gates open all day no issues _____________________________________________________
Zambezi silver Vogue Se unique

19th Dec 2016 4:57pm

Gazellio @ Prestige Cars

Member Since: 22 Jan 2010
Location: Chilterns, UK
Posts: 11309

Or simply turn off the interior lights....

19th Dec 2016 5:29pm

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