Hello all, sorry for the delay in getting back. Iv'e had the car back for about eight or nine weeks. They disconnected the dash cam thinking it might be interfering with the canbus system. they said to drive it and sede if anything untoward happens. It didn't until the week after christmas when the cluster just died then restarted with the message hdc restarting came up. it then didn't die until tuesday this week, when it died three times on one journey with the same message as above. this afternoon while taking her dad to hospital the wife had the dash die and stayed dead. i looked in some posts about this and one said to remove f4 and f8 and then put back. hey presto it's worked. Land Rover Hatfield (wouldn't use ever again, can't see until 25 Febuary). What i want to know is that the sign of a bad earth or something easy, i would like to know because otherwise i'm going to sell and buy something a bit more reliable. Thanks in advance.

Get the earth to starter bolt done and I read posts some where regarding hand cream causing issues with docking remote keys losing communication with the dock.......

If i put a new earth strap. from battery to a bolt somewhere can it be just a heavy duty bit of cable because the original earth has got some box on it.

I Think i have found the problem. I got hold of an auto electrician. Because i took fuses out and replaced them he couldn't do anything until the problem reoccured, well it did two days later. He came round today. I sat in the passenger seat and he plugged the reader in,as he did that the dashboard died. It then fired back up. He then said about the bcm and the problems we have both read about with the plug that causes the same symptoms as i have. I was saying to him i can't work out why that problem was the same as the bcm is in a different part of the footwell when it went dead again. It was my foot on the wheelarch side of the footwell that is doing the plug or whatever it is there. I can now go to Land Rover and show them it doing it. Thank you to all that posted and hopefully this may well help someone else. The sparks think it may have started when the pollen filter was changed by a specialist a couple of years ago.