23-01-2020, 11:58 AM
Some things are easier than others, but FIRST it helps if you read the instructions...
A pal of mine over here bought a very tidy low mileage Range Rover Vogue 4.6 litre EFi Auto from the UK. After a while the battery gave up the ghost, so my erstwhile amateur DIYer removed the battery and put it on charge. When he put it back on the car it refused to start because he didn't use the RTFI file before taking the battery off (The RTFI file = read the f***ing instructions) which state "Under no circumstances remove the battery leads without first referring to this manual"
It resulted in him having to call a wrecker to take him and his Range Rover all the way to Avignon (90 mins from his house each way) so the Land Rover concessionnaire could connect his beast up to a Land Rover Testbook (no ordinary laptop would do) in order to reboot the onboard computer so that he could restart the car.
A very expensive lesson, made worse by the fact that when he eventually got back home he reversed the car into a tree, smashing the rear tailgate glass. That cost him another 1000€...
Moral of the story? Don't try to be clever - R.T.F.I.
A pal of mine over here bought a very tidy low mileage Range Rover Vogue 4.6 litre EFi Auto from the UK. After a while the battery gave up the ghost, so my erstwhile amateur DIYer removed the battery and put it on charge. When he put it back on the car it refused to start because he didn't use the RTFI file before taking the battery off (The RTFI file = read the f***ing instructions) which state "Under no circumstances remove the battery leads without first referring to this manual"
It resulted in him having to call a wrecker to take him and his Range Rover all the way to Avignon (90 mins from his house each way) so the Land Rover concessionnaire could connect his beast up to a Land Rover Testbook (no ordinary laptop would do) in order to reboot the onboard computer so that he could restart the car.
A very expensive lesson, made worse by the fact that when he eventually got back home he reversed the car into a tree, smashing the rear tailgate glass. That cost him another 1000€...
Moral of the story? Don't try to be clever - R.T.F.I.