calling all landy owners

[Stuartsharp]

A quick call for help really, if anybody else has had similar prob.

 

Battery on 3 series 130 died at the weekend, and when i replaced it with one from another truck...and subsiquently with a brand new battery, the alarm and imoboliser keep kicking in. i am able to preheat the engine but am unable to turn the engine over, i assume due to some security function? The strange thing is that i have had the battery in and out of this truck countless times before and never had a problem. i am guessing it may be due to the old battery being completly flat. The alarm is a meta systems model, and i don't have a keypad or anything like that to turn the immoboliser off, have never had this sort of thing in the two years i have been driving it.

 

Has anybody else had come across this, and how did you fix it?

[kevwrenn]

ive just copied this to another forum i frequent to see if anyone can help.

[Dean Lofthouse]

It's a fault with the alarm

 

You may be better reading up on the alarm manual, some alarms have an anti tamper mode, removing power a few times can trigger it, there will be a way of reseting it in the manual

[Kev Stephenson]

I had a similar thing with my TD5 130 when doing the tipper conversion (battery on and off a few times). Mine has got a key fob for the alarm but this did not seem to do anything. Had to turn the key on and off about 5 times (all the way to running but not turning the starter) then it fired when I tried it.

 

It flashed the engine management light when I tried to fire it when it was immobilised but this could be TD5 only.

[Stuartsharp]

It's a fault with the alarm

 

i think you may be right there, i think the alarm has a capacitor in it because i had the battery out of the other truck, all day today, and when reinstalling the battery this evening, there were no problems. i wonder if because the problem battery was totally flat over the weekend, it may have drained the capacitors in the alarm, i am hoping that come the morning they may have charged up!.....possibly wishful thinking! but yer i shall have a dig about for alarm manual. ta

[stoxs]

if memory is correct

 

there is a sequince on the drivers door to reset the alarm , well this is from a discovery, i thinkit was 3 locks then 3 unlocks. not to sure on correct sequince but something like that.

try find someone with a owners manual it will tell you in there.

 

my old disco alarm used to go off if you didn`t remove battery terminal within 20 seconds of turning ignition off, maybe try this dunno

[Kev Stephenson]

I would be surprised if it has anything to do with the door locks, most defender alarms do not operate the locks so there is no electrical connection between the alarm and door locks

[Dean Lofthouse]

It's normally a sequence of ignition key turns like Kev (S_T_S) has previously described.

[scudmonster]

I had a similar problem with my 130 td5. I found that it was a faulty cell in the battery. got new battery and problem was solved.