Member Since: 11 Aug 2017
Location: Helsinki
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The petrol V8 starts, gets warm and burbles along without any issues.
The Volvo with its diesel engine does benefit from a FBH and winter type diesel (different feeezing point, etc.) - starting the FBH can be done remotely from the cell phone
The coolant is rated for roughly -35 (or -34 or -36) degrees.
22nd Feb 2018 1:30 pm
Iguana
Member Since: 14 Oct 2013
Location: 'Sunny' Zomerset
Posts: 9402
So it's bloody cold when on Auto or manual settings, I very rarely use auto, but yesterday was on manual at 28 and cool air coming out, but very hot when it moves to high
Gareth, I have one of those temp voltmeter things, will stick it in the car and monitor things
All I have on the glass is a dashcam, so but it's off tot he left side (looking out) of the wing mirror, not sure where the temp sensor is???
I've also got a problem with front parking sensor, so will ask them to check heating when it goes in Iggy/Ieuan
Current LR =
2015 RR Sport Autobiography
&
1992 Land Rover Defender Camper
- Gone but not forgotten:
MY10 D4 GS
MY05 Disco 3 'S'
MY14 FL2 HSE manual in Blue
MY15 Disco 4 HSE Lux in Santorini Black
MY08 Disco 3 SE manual in Buck Blue
1960 Series 2 88" (No idea why I sold it!)
22nd Feb 2018 1:41 pm
DSL Keeper of the wheelie bin
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Sounds exactly the same as my folks' MY16 Landmark. It's had the "fix" which hasn't changed it that much. Completely useless for a car that cost fifty odd grand.
22nd Feb 2018 1:52 pm
kajtzu
Member Since: 11 Aug 2017
Location: Helsinki
Posts: 6575
Sensor is behind the little grille next to the steering wheel colum. On LHD it would be on the right side of it. I assume on RHD, being mostly a mirror-copy, it’ll be on the left side of the column.
22nd Feb 2018 1:52 pm
James W
Member Since: 27 Mar 2008
Location: Wirral, UK
Posts: 3067
I find the auto climate control very good, I never have to touch it although I wish it had 20.5deg as sometimes 21 is just a little much and 20 just a little too cold. I remember once leaving high up in the Pyrenees when it was just above freezing in the morning and not touching the control until I arrived at a campsite south of Barcelona some time later and had a shock when I stepped outside the car and it was over 30deg.
SWMBO does complain however when she sits in the back with the girls in their car seats that her feet are freezing; the system must keep the floor vent output quite cool compared to the face vents.D4 XS, gone, much loved, never forgotten
2018 FFRR SDV8 Autobiography - Gone to someone with less sense and more time to enjoy it
2016 Toyota Hilux Invincible - Liberating experience
22nd Feb 2018 2:51 pm
wizbongre
Member Since: 26 Oct 2013
Location: Liverpool
Posts: 690
For what its worth, our D3 is exactly the same. Every other car I drive with auto climate I leave at 21/22 and it just works. In the D3 I have to turn it up to 25 and even then, it begins to blow cold after a bit.
I'm also now driving round with it on full hot and manual fan set to 1. I've got bits of the dash apart as I've been fixing the IPACK issue I had so may change the temp sensor whilst I have the opportunity.
It used to work much better.Cheers,
Gareth
'57 D3 2.7 TDV6 HSE gone and soon to be forgotten!
‘15 D4 3.0 SDV6 HSE Luxury
'64 Audi A6 3.0BiTDi Quattro S-Line Black Edition with lots of toys
22nd Feb 2018 3:09 pm
lynalldiscovery
Member Since: 22 Dec 2009
Location: Maidstone
Posts: 7274
Turn the heating off at home and you will never complain about the disco heating again AND save loads of money
Same with mine, on Auto doesn’t get hot, cannot get anything but cold air out the facia vents, turn it to manual, works well, hot air out the facial vents, feet get hot back to Auto to cool down.
22nd Feb 2018 4:44 pm
Gary_P
Member Since: 03 May 2016
Location: Kent
Posts: 1523
There is supposedly a fix (tsp) at the dealers under warranty where they insert a piece of foam around a sensor. Most feedback seems to indicate it doesn't work.Gary
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22nd Feb 2018 5:55 pm
Robbie
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The D4 issue is self-heating of the cabin thermistor. Those with relatively short journeys will find the system good and accurate. Those driving for an hour or more will find themselves nudging up the dial to compensate for the increasingly over-reading interior sensor. Eventually you run out of adjustments and it will get cold.
It can be fixed, but apparently not by JLR.Land Rover - Turning Drivers into Mechanics Since 1948
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How about just taking that cover beside the steering wheel off and stuffing around the sensor with tissues or something? Basically it'll then get its heat from the surrounding plastic & tissues rather than air flow.
That's exactly my situation. This week the trips have been 1 hour + every time.
Exactly where does the sensor live?.
Dean
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2011 D4 XS - OBD port protection, RLD spare wheel protector, All LED interiors lights, Timed Climate enabled, iiD tool paired.
2011 D4 Landmark - Stolen from same dealer before I paid for it
2011 D4 GS - Stolen whilst at dealer ... All LED interiors lights, DRLs, Spare Wheel protector.
1996 300Tdi - Eaten by tin worms
If i understand Robbie correctly it's lack of airflow around the sensor that lets it heat up due to passing current.
Dean
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2011 D4 XS - OBD port protection, RLD spare wheel protector, All LED interiors lights, Timed Climate enabled, iiD tool paired.
2011 D4 Landmark - Stolen from same dealer before I paid for it
2011 D4 GS - Stolen whilst at dealer ... All LED interiors lights, DRLs, Spare Wheel protector.
1996 300Tdi - Eaten by tin worms
22nd Feb 2018 6:16 pm
DSL Keeper of the wheelie bin
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Little window in the trim to left of the steering wheel.
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22nd Feb 2018 6:18 pm
Iguana
Member Since: 14 Oct 2013
Location: 'Sunny' Zomerset
Posts: 9402
Ah see what you mean Del, pull that part of the plastic off and stuff it with tissues?
You going to try it first? Iggy/Ieuan
Current LR =
2015 RR Sport Autobiography
&
1992 Land Rover Defender Camper
- Gone but not forgotten:
MY10 D4 GS
MY05 Disco 3 'S'
MY14 FL2 HSE manual in Blue
MY15 Disco 4 HSE Lux in Santorini Black
MY08 Disco 3 SE manual in Buck Blue
1960 Series 2 88" (No idea why I sold it!)
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... All LED interiors lights, DRLs, Spare Wheel protector.
