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L90DNY

Member Since: 09 Feb 2016
Location: Somerset
Posts: 117

Defender won't start strange dash lights

Evening folks, I am re-building a td5 currently. Recently put in a lower milage td5 engine, all good swapped the injectors over from old engine, everything was running fine. Left it in the workshop ready to waxoxyl it the next day, cracked on and thought about halfway through the day should probably start it... and got nothing. Didn't even turn over, like there was a flat battery, put a fresh battery in just incase it had drained over night or something. Same thing.

However, I get lights on the dash that stay on, these are the indicators, fog lights and side light lights ?

Any ideas can't find anything about those warning dash lights anywhere online ?

7th Mar 2016 10:18pm

JWL

Member Since: 26 Oct 2011
Location: Hereford
Posts: 3443

That's a new one on me, I would be leaning to double checking the battery condition and instalation, then double checking over what you had done to prep it in readiness to waxoyling.

7th Mar 2016 10:36pm

MadTom

Member Since: 10 Sep 2013
Location: Olomouc
Posts: 637

Check grounding - between battery, chasis and engine. "Drobek" = The Small One - Discovery 2, "Blufínek" = The Blue Thing - Defender 130, and for me at least Ford Mondeo

8th Mar 2016 7:18am

L90DNY

Member Since: 09 Feb 2016
Location: Somerset
Posts: 117

I'd had taken the wings off, as new ones are going on. As I understand it the alarm is in one of the wings, so I plugged them back in and tried again with the same result. I cleaned off the earth to the chassis from the battery, and tried two separate batteries, checked them both with the volt meter putting out 13 volts, so no issues there.

Very strange, might have to get a computer plugged into it. The only thing I didn't try on the off chance might work was unplugging and re plugging the ECU in. Must some sort of weird electrical gremlin, 1 step forward 2 steps back !

8th Mar 2016 9:02am

Martin
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Member Since: 02 Apr 2007
Location: Hook Norton
Posts: 6633

2015 Defender 90 Puma 2.2 XS CSW Montalcino Red

Does the ignition turn on as normal - i.e. you get glow plug light on (then off), charge warning lamp (battery symbol), dash gauges move... or not?

1988 90 Td5 NAS soft top

2015 D90 XS SW

8th Mar 2016 9:25am

L90DNY

Member Since: 09 Feb 2016
Location: Somerset
Posts: 117

Yes, lights all come on glow plug comes on and goes off. Milage shows up etc, then they all the lights go off but the indicators, fog lamps and side lights stay on.

8th Mar 2016 9:36am

JWL

Member Since: 26 Oct 2011
Location: Hereford
Posts: 3443

It's beginning to sound like a problem around the dashboard/switch housing by steering wheel. Perhaps the multi-plug behind the dash clocks where it takes feeds from the indicator, lights and fog light switches.

8th Mar 2016 1:17pm

miker

Member Since: 13 Sep 2015
Location: Surrey
Posts: 1768

Are the actual lamps on as well as the indicators? My money would be on grounding. Block to chassis strap, any other grounds in the engine bay.

8th Mar 2016 1:19pm

L90DNY

Member Since: 09 Feb 2016
Location: Somerset
Posts: 117

It is just the lights on the dash, not the actual lights that are on. I thought it was some kind of warning light sequence, but haven't found anything about it yet. I will have to check all of the grounding points next

8th Mar 2016 2:53pm

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