electical problem

[meader]

friday on the way home from work i flashed my lights and my dash died but came back to life about ten seconds later and this morning i jumped into my disco turned the light on dropped the handbrake and all my lights went out but wen i lifted the hand brake they came back on so i have cleaned the earths in the engine bay and still no change i left the ignition on for about 3mins and tryed to find the fault but no i have last all power and the onlylight i have on the dash is a battery light but she will not fire up and my windows have also lost all power can any one suggest were to look now thanks

[Range Rover Blues]

Sounds like an earth fault all right, have you checked the body, engine and chassiS are all connected together? I found the earth strap near the battery that goes to both body and chassis in turn had not been soldered and eventually became loose and ineffective.

[Ricky]

The handbrake gives it away! You have a dodgey earth.  Currently its using the handbrake as the earth strap . on two occasions i have seen the heat from this virtualy weld the handbrake mechanism. Check and doulble check ALL earth straps

[meader]

thanks for the help ill look at the earths again but would that cause me to loose all the power too every thing

[chris9119]

thanks for the help ill look at the earths again but would that cause me to loose all the power too every thing

Yes.

Also, if it's a 200Tedi, check the electrical connections within the engine by (drivers side, running down inner wing edge). These are wrapped in a gauze type material and are known for breaking down..... and causing a simular fault.

[meader]

thanks for all your help it was an earth problem and i thought it was alot worse my hand brake is ok even though it did get a bit hot