No problem. Current: Discovery 3 06MY (55 reg) HSE Auto Zambezi Silver Allisport Fast Road Intercooler, V8 Brakes, Silicone IC Hoses, EGRs Blanked, Remapped, De-Cat pipe, FBHIC
Freelander 2 2007 HSE Manual Tambora Flame
Previous: FL2 56 reg SE Manual Black (written off )
Disco 3 06 reg B7S Manual Rimini Red
Disco 2 TD5 Y reg ES Manual Blue - Chipped
Several Discovery 300 TDis
30th May 2015 1:07 pm
Robbie
Member Since: 05 Feb 2006
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Glad we cleared that up! How many more colours in the rainbow?
Is it SJ813 or something?
Land Rover - Turning Drivers into Mechanics Since 1948
Member Since: 15 Jul 2014
Location: Lancashire
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Thanks for all the suggestions gentlemen, but the mystery continues, I have opened up the loom alongside the passenger footwell and can only find one of the dreaded blue taped splices
This joins two green/pink wires to a single green/pink wire as you can see from the picture it appears to be in good condition but to be on the safe side I have cut it out and made a soldered splice covered in heat shrink and Plastidip.
I can find the blue/purple wire shown in DM's wiring diagram but this does not have a splice, fuse 44 is good and has 12.9 volts to both test points.
1997 Defender 90 for the kids and I to have a go at some competitive off road RTV and Tyro trials, daughter picked up her first trophy over the August Bank Holiday.
Previous Land Rover history
1996 P38 4.6 V8 Autobiography
1996 Discovery TDi 300
1972 Range Rover 3.5 V8
LWB Hard Top Series 3
LWB Truck Cab Series 2A
Not been without a Land Rover for over 40 years - I must need therapy!
30th May 2015 6:05 pm
MGCarr
Member Since: 15 Jul 2014
Location: Lancashire
Posts: 703
I have now traced the purple/blue wire through to the green connector in the centre console, seen in the bottom left of this photograph.
It has battery voltage all the way, from there it re-enters the loom and the next place I have been able to find is at the plug that connects to the gear selector, pinning through the insulation there is 12.7 volts immediately behind the plug.
Unfortunately due to the design of the plug I cannot see which of the sockets the wire is connected to, would anybody be able to give me a socket or pin number from their wiring diagram please?
Would I be right in assuming that if I have voltage at the plug then my problem is the gear selector is goosed?
Is it repairable or am I better off looking for a new one?
1997 Defender 90 for the kids and I to have a go at some competitive off road RTV and Tyro trials, daughter picked up her first trophy over the August Bank Holiday.
Previous Land Rover history
1996 P38 4.6 V8 Autobiography
1996 Discovery TDi 300
1972 Range Rover 3.5 V8
LWB Hard Top Series 3
LWB Truck Cab Series 2A
Not been without a Land Rover for over 40 years - I must need therapy!
30th May 2015 7:30 pm
Rawhide
Member Since: 04 Jun 2014
Location: Gloucester
Posts: 42
Hi - I have a very similar problem. Same error code and fault appear whenever I select drive.
I exposed the loom hoping to find a problem but could not find anything wrong.
I unwrapped a blue connector and it was all fine. There were some other connection but they looked glued with shrink wrap which looks professional or factory to me.
I found one single grey wire near the glovebox loose so I insulated that;
I could not inspect the top part of the loom well but there was no sign of corrosion anywhere. I ran out of time so put it all back together again.
Any ideas what to try next?
11th Apr 2016 1:25 am
MGCarr
Member Since: 15 Jul 2014
Location: Lancashire
Posts: 703
Unfortunately at the moment I haven't, I still have the problem on mine but as I can work round it by switching the lights on before selecting drive in the gearbox, I have not got round to spending a lot of time on it. Now that the better weather is coming I will try to get back to it.
1997 Defender 90 for the kids and I to have a go at some competitive off road RTV and Tyro trials, daughter picked up her first trophy over the August Bank Holiday.
Previous Land Rover history
1996 P38 4.6 V8 Autobiography
1996 Discovery TDi 300
1972 Range Rover 3.5 V8
LWB Hard Top Series 3
LWB Truck Cab Series 2A
Not been without a Land Rover for over 40 years - I must need therapy!
11th Apr 2016 1:32 am
Disco3_2.7V6
Member Since: 22 Sep 2016
Location: Darlington
Posts: 96
Can anyone shed any light what fixed their cars please ? Cut this wire back but wires were still black inside, managed to get solder to take and rejoined. Still no better car still keeps coming up with transmission fault.
2nd Oct 2016 3:56 pm
Alphamale
Member Since: 28 May 2014
Location: Belfast
Posts: 496
Rawhide, that grey wire is meant to be expose as you found it. Some time ago I also found the same wire (others have also come across it) and searched through the wiring diagrams until I found it. If you check out this link http://www.disco3.co.uk/forum/topic131361.html it'll show the diagrams I down loaded and explain what the wire is.
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2nd Oct 2016 7:49 pm
Disco3_2.7V6
Member Since: 22 Sep 2016
Location: Darlington
Posts: 96
Link doesn't work, what is the green/pink wire for ?
2nd Oct 2016 8:34 pm
Alphamale
Member Since: 28 May 2014
Location: Belfast
Posts: 496
Member Since: 02 Aug 2017
Location: Swindon
Posts: 7
Did anyone manage to fix this? I cannot find the mentioned blue splice anywhere and I’m pretty sure it’s not from lack of looking. I’ve been going through this part of the loom for hours now.
6th Aug 2017 4:36 pm
Rawhide
Member Since: 04 Jun 2014
Location: Gloucester
Posts: 42
Hi - I logged back into this site and thought I'd post an update. My cars gearbox issues are entirely fixed. The fault was in the centre console switch panel. I bought a second hand one on ebay and it's all fine now
The cause was we believe either spilled fizzy drink or leaving the sunroof open in a rain storm. All done before I bought the car.
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