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[TheBoy]

Change the bulbs for quality non chinesium ones sourced from somewhere reliable.

Xenon bulbs also degrade with age. As do LED and filament, but to a lesser extent.

So Rangie, if your 20yr one RRS has original bulbs, consider changing

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Absolutely no problem with the Range Rover lights they're fine , just the screenwashers are crap.

The screen squirts things?  Lack of water coming out, or a big delay in water starting to come out - latter is due to a failed 1 way valve, and JLR do generally use particularly crap ones.

If is is a 1 way valve issue, may I ask what brand of screen wash you use?

[Sir Tigger KC]

Change the bulbs for quality non chinesium ones sourced from somewhere reliable.

Xenon bulbs also degrade with age. As do LED and filament, but to a lesser extent.

So Rangie, if your 20yr one RRS has original bulbs, consider changing

.

Absolutely no problem with the Range Rover lights they're fine , just the screenwashers are crap.

The screen squirts things?  Lack of water coming out, or a big delay in water starting to come out - latter is due to a failed 1 way valve, and JLR do generally use particularly crap ones.

If is is a 1 way valve issue, may I ask what brand of screen wash you use?

You should start a new thread for that TB! 

[Rangie]

Change the bulbs for quality non chinesium ones sourced from somewhere reliable.

Xenon bulbs also degrade with age. As do LED and filament, but to a lesser extent.

So Rangie, if your 20yr one RRS has original bulbs, consider changing

.

Absolutely no problem with the Range Rover lights they're fine , just the screenwashers are crap.

The screen squirts things?  Lack of water coming out, or a big delay in water starting to come out - latter is due to a failed 1 way valve, and JLR do generally use particularly crap ones.

If is is a 1 way valve issue, may I ask what brand of screen wash you use?

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No delay at all they operate as required, but for the type of vehicle it is I would want a much stronger & wider spray, the Toyota is on the other hand really powerful & clears the whole screen, I'm going to contact my indi who looks after it to see if there's a better type that can be fitted there surely must be .

[Doctor Gollum]

Sounds like they're either partially blocked up or misadjusted.

Cross mixing screen washes can cause all sorts of chemical goo to sludge up the lines and tanks. Add in hard water and eventually it reduces the spray pattern to the point you notice.

[TheBoy]

You should start a new thread for that TB! 

Its a weird one, but I'm starting to see a small pattern of valve failures were people are using Halfords Berry screenwash.  This could of course be that its a very, very popular screenwash.  Most vids where you see people replacing the valves, there is using a carton of Halfords Berry in view

In my particular car in my ownership, its only ever had Halfords Berry or Halfords Citrus, so I know its not a mixing problem

[Rangie]

You should start a new thread for that TB! 

Its a weird one, but I'm starting to see a small pattern of valve failures were people are using Halfords Berry screenwash.  This could of course be that its a very, very popular screenwash.  Most vids where you see people replacing the valves, there is using a carton of Halfords Berry in view

In my particular car in my ownership, its only ever had Halfords Berry or Halfords Citrus, so I know its not a mixing problem

I've used the same one from my local motor factors for as long as I can remember branded by the RAC never had any problems before .

[TheBoy]

Yeah, to be honest, I've used the Halfords one for 15+ years, and whilst I've had occasional pump failures or headlight washer failures, it's only recently I'm getting through 1 way valves faster than I get through a pack of wine gums.  Valves aside, I'd say the failures weren't out of the ordinary except the Jag headlight washers which do seem to fail far too often on mine.

It could all be coincidence, of course.

[Rangie]

When I've seen some of the RRs offroading and spraying mud over the whole windscreen the wipers/washers cope well with it so they must be uprated, when I'm back from Spain I'll get advice from my indi he's always got the answer 👍

[YZ250]

All this tech is maybe good for some people and good once the person learns to trust it and relay.

What happens when it fails and there's no warming?

Once read about a Beemer when the throttle got stuck, couldn't turn off the engine or switch off or alter settings, nothing worked

He called the police who helped clear the motorway the poor guy was bricking it as the car just kept accelerating, not sure how it concluded bu reckon underpants were full.

Was a Jag E.Pace driver. He's since been charged with all sorts of things.

Apparently the driver wanted rid of the car and wanted to discredit Jaguar (no, it wasn’t him that made that hideous advert). 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cly4d7ne71ko

In the past, almost every previous car that I’ve owned has been prone to the accelerator sticking to the carpet and taking me to maximum speed against my will. Coincidentally, it always happened on the same stretch of the A40 and the M40, and always backed off to a more sensible speed after these sections.    A very strange phenomenon, almost as if I’d become possessed by an inner force.     

[TheBoy]

In the past, almost every previous car that I’ve owned has been prone to the accelerator sticking to the carpet and taking me to maximum speed against my will. Coincidentally, it always happened on the same stretch of the A40 and the M40, and always backed off to a more sensible speed after these sections.    A very strange phenomenon, almost as if I’d become possessed by an inner force.     

But your cars now are reformed characters, aren't they?

Obviously, at this point, I'm just keeping my mouth shut.  People in glass houses, and all that

[YZ250]

In the past, almost every previous car that I’ve owned has been prone to the accelerator sticking to the carpet and taking me to maximum speed against my will. Coincidentally, it always happened on the same stretch of the A40 and the M40, and always backed off to a more sensible speed after these sections.    A very strange phenomenon, almost as if I’d become possessed by an inner force.     

But your cars now are reformed characters, aren't they?

Obviously, at this point, I'm just keeping my mouth shut.  People in glass houses, and all that

Exactly. 
I had consierge in all of my bmw's so BMW Control Centre knew where my vehicle was every second of the day, and not once did they message the car to say 'That was impressive' after one of my spirited runs. Just that one simple message sent to the car would have cheered me up. 

Any further developments concerning your little indiscretion. 

[TheBoy]

Points make prizes, Mr YZ.

And to add insult to injury, I paid the fine on a credit card, which for government fines, counts as a cash transaction which I never knew, and nor did the fickers say.  So that adds another 5% plus daily interest.

[YZ250]

Points make prizes, Mr YZ.

And to add insult to injury, I paid the fine on a credit card, which for government fines, counts as a cash transaction which I never knew, and nor did the fickers say.  So that adds another 5% plus daily interest.

Ah, not good then. 

[TheBoy]

Points make prizes, Mr YZ.

And to add insult to injury, I paid the fine on a credit card, which for government fines, counts as a cash transaction which I never knew, and nor did the fickers say.  So that adds another 5% plus daily interest.

Ah, not good then. 

Well, I kept the licence clean until I was 55. Somehow

[countrywoman]

Clean licence so far at 70, must watch it now the Yeti has been remapped. Had trouble staying at 70 on the M5 last night in 5th as DPF light came on, just a touch on throttle. 4mile run sorted the DPF out.