Rover 200 & 400 Owners Club Forum

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Yup, diagnostic connectors. You’ll also need software such as PScan, or a T4.

Yh but they struggle if they can't use diagnostic kit Not necessarily. Some of the best technicians with the most enquiring and problem solving minds I’ve met have worked in main dealerships. As posted above, to solve complex Canbus issues requires an intimate and experienced understanding. ...and ...

The big dealer garages only want cars that can be plugged into a computer that then tells them what to do - as Rover Revivals says, “employing monkeys”. That’s a bit of a lazy and unfair assumption in my book, sorry. Dealership level diagnostic gear does not simply “tell them what to do”; there’s s...

Don’t look at it when you pull. You’ll punch yourself in the face when it releases.

Ask me how I know.

That could work Kevin; whereabouts in Cambs are you?

As a further note, I’ve proven the MODE button works with a borrowed cassette. Just the continuity test on the cable to do now.

Bringing the changer in for 24 hours to warm up has done precisely nothing, still the same result. I haven’t had a chance to continuity check the cable, I don’t expect to find anything wrong to be honest but I’ll do it all the same. I’m not going to open up either unit as I don’t want to jeopardise ...

I’ve pressed the MODE button, pressed it again, double clicked it, pressed and held it, tried pressing it in different places-all manner of combinations! Leaving the set on overnight hasn’t worked, so the changer is currently in my boiler cupboard warming up. If that doesn’t work I might have to adm...

Could the 'Mode' button switch be faulty? I did think of this as a possibility-although all the other buttons on the unit work OK, and the MODE button exhibits the same positive “click” as the others. Unfortunately I’ve not got any cassettes whatsoever to try Johnny’s suggestion for testing! If my ...

Yup, sounds like aluminium oxide. Something familiar to Lotus owners!

Bizarrely I’ve found Autoglym Engine & Machine cleaner together with a brush or sponge very effective at removing it.

Are you sure that cable connecting R950 and CD changer is sound in all wires? It may be that controls wire/s might be damaged. Or CD changer have problems. What model/vendor of CD changer you put together with R950? It’s a Philips DC082, from what I understand it’s the only changer compatible with ...

Managed to get hold of a R950 and CD changer for my R8-I’ve fitted it all and the head unit powers up and operates as expected, but doesn’t seem to recognise the CD changer. There’s power to the changer as it will eject and load the magazine fine, but when the “MODE” button is pressed (and held, and...

Morning,

I’m currently having my 75 resprayed and need to have some stickers on the slam panel reproduced. Can anyone recommend someone to do so?

I’ve got good pictures and measurements of the stickers.

That’s impressive-it’s not an easy dent to get out that either on location or size.

Definitely a skill and art!