FFRR - Comfort Access?
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Hi all,
My Dad passed away last week suddenly and I have made the trip from Glasgow down to Plymouth to get important docs from his flat and pick up his car to take home. It is a 2017 FFRR. As you will see from the picture, it is riding rather low. A quick google search tells me that this could be leaking air suspension (not all 4 bags surely!) or that it is sitting in 'comfort access' mode. The reason I ask is that my Dad's mobility was not great (albeit he was only 68) and so I am wondering if he had the car set up for comfort access to allow him to clamber in.
Long story short I am unable to get the keys as the Police have them (they stored them in a warehouse until Monday as closed for the weekend) and so I am at my sister's for a couple of days and am hoping to get his FFRR back to life before driving up the road. As I could not get the keys yet, we went to the flat to see the car anyway having made the journey(not taxed since March and will do so on Monday when I get access to the flat)
We have a hired car, which is due to go back tomorrow but I'll have to extend the rental till Monday as the original plan was to drive the FFRR to my sister's today until we found out that the police had transferred the keys from the local Police Office to their warehouse (they did not tell me this) and so I am keen to find out whether the FFRR will be OK once we jump start the battery to drive home to Glasgow or whether I extend the hire car further and drive home and leave the FFRR at Dad's for another day.
I thought I would reach out here for some advice / thoughts before speaking to the hire company tomorrow or wasting my time trying to get a car back to life that will not be suitable for the journey home.
Thanks in advance for any advice.
My Dad passed away last week suddenly and I have made the trip from Glasgow down to Plymouth to get important docs from his flat and pick up his car to take home. It is a 2017 FFRR. As you will see from the picture, it is riding rather low. A quick google search tells me that this could be leaking air suspension (not all 4 bags surely!) or that it is sitting in 'comfort access' mode. The reason I ask is that my Dad's mobility was not great (albeit he was only 68) and so I am wondering if he had the car set up for comfort access to allow him to clamber in.
Long story short I am unable to get the keys as the Police have them (they stored them in a warehouse until Monday as closed for the weekend) and so I am at my sister's for a couple of days and am hoping to get his FFRR back to life before driving up the road. As I could not get the keys yet, we went to the flat to see the car anyway having made the journey(not taxed since March and will do so on Monday when I get access to the flat)
We have a hired car, which is due to go back tomorrow but I'll have to extend the rental till Monday as the original plan was to drive the FFRR to my sister's today until we found out that the police had transferred the keys from the local Police Office to their warehouse (they did not tell me this) and so I am keen to find out whether the FFRR will be OK once we jump start the battery to drive home to Glasgow or whether I extend the hire car further and drive home and leave the FFRR at Dad's for another day.
I thought I would reach out here for some advice / thoughts before speaking to the hire company tomorrow or wasting my time trying to get a car back to life that will not be suitable for the journey home.
Thanks in advance for any advice.
Looks like it's in access height which it will do every time the car stops, engine off and drivers door is opened. When you get in and start it up for the first time it'll raise to standard height as you set off and pass 5 or 10 MPH.
You can confirm by looking at the vehicle settings in the drivers dashboard screen under convenience features. It can be accessed when the ignition is on by pressing the ok button on the either the left or right side steering wheel controls when the various seatbelt and other warnings disappear from the screen.
If it's been left for a while then a fault warning may be present temporarily while the compressor tops up the air tank and then raises the car to standard height. If it has been left then its probably not a bad idea to cycle between access, standard and off road ride heights a few times as well as engaging the low range option for the transfer case driving back and forth a short distance.
You can confirm by looking at the vehicle settings in the drivers dashboard screen under convenience features. It can be accessed when the ignition is on by pressing the ok button on the either the left or right side steering wheel controls when the various seatbelt and other warnings disappear from the screen.
If it's been left for a while then a fault warning may be present temporarily while the compressor tops up the air tank and then raises the car to standard height. If it has been left then its probably not a bad idea to cycle between access, standard and off road ride heights a few times as well as engaging the low range option for the transfer case driving back and forth a short distance.
As said already, once you get it running and drive off it should pump up to its normal ride height, you might get some messages on the cluster to say suspension rising or rising slowly but it should get there in the end if there are no further faults.
When parked for a long time it is normal for them drop very low, LR spec used to say something like they can loose 1mm ride height per 24hr from memory.
When parked for a long time it is normal for them drop very low, LR spec used to say something like they can loose 1mm ride height per 24hr from memory.
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