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Hi it's Jim. I take care of the technical support here at Atlantic British. To start
out this video I want to introduce you to your new technical support guy, Doug. I'm
getting old so I'm going to step out of the way and the young generation is going to take
over. In this video we're going to show you how to replace the hood switch on your LR3.
This will apply to a Sport also. A lot of times you will get hoods open, you'll get
an alarm fault; it's a good possibility it's the switch on the right front hood latch.
So I am going to turn it over to Doug. He is going to show you how easily it is to change
this switch. Easily. First thing we are going to do is take the grill out, and that's going
to give you easy access to the 2 bolts that hold the latch in place. Now this is an LR3,
which is going to have 4 clips across the top and then 2 more tucked in along the bottom.
On a Sport you'll disconnect the top 4 and your going to give a good hard yank to pull
the grill out. You are going to grab number 30 torque, mine is sort of custom made, so
you made need a short extension on yours as well. And what you're going to do is loosen
up the 2 bolts on either side of the latch. You're going to remove them completely. And
always put them down where you can find them. Just that easy, just that quick. Now on the
backside is your electrical connector. You are just going to squeeze the tab, and you're
going to remove, and then you can slide this forward. Take your steel spacer, don't lose
this, put this on this side. Now this lower assembly right here is your switch. And if
you look at the new one that's going to go in its place, you just simply have 2 lock
tabs that hold that in place. So it is a pop out, pop in situation. So we'll place that
there, we'll grab a small screw driver and you're going to reach in underneath. You want
to push that tab in. You can hear it click when it releases, and it pulls right out.
And you're going to take the new one, same positioning, push that back up in place and
then once they seat you'll hear them click. Nice solid click, you know it's in. Don't
forget your steel plate. The easiest way is to at least start with 1 bolt through the
latch and the plate, slide it back in place. Take a few threads, put it on just to get
it started. And then you'll put your other bolt on. Now, when you go to put it back together,
you want to look for your witness marks on your latch because you want to put the latch
back in the same position that it was in. And you'll see the steel plate, where it sits,
where the latch originally was, is clean. So you push the latch in, line it up with
the steel plate. Snug one side. Go to the other and do the same thing. Bring the area
up with the latch so it lines up. The clean part falls in behind the washer, so you know
the bolt is in the same position. Snug that one. Go to the other side, finish tightening
the bolt on the other side and just take your electrical connector and you're going to plug
right in on the backside. And again, when it's in right you'll hear it click. You know
it's latched into place. Essentially you're done. You're going to pop your grill back
on and you're all set. Nothing needs to be programmed or added. And, here at Atlantic
British you can get your switch. Call us on the phone, 1-800-533-2210, get our sales department.
Tell them what's going on with your car. They can probably figure out which part you need,
the switch. Like we said it's good for LR3s, I believe LR4s, the Sports and a lot of the
Land Rovers, the later ones. So either give us a call at 1-800-533-2210 or check us out
at RoverParts.com and get your hood switch, get rid of that annoying message or maybe
your alarm going off in the middle of the night for no reason at all.