Yes,p38s have "quirks"

[michael1703]

So I normally park the car on the flat and leave it unlocked,I came home late last night very tired,reversed on to the drive, but instead of parking it on the flat,I'd run it slightly up a bank but I was too tired to care and has I had lots of tools in the back I locked it for the first time in 6 months.

 

Came out this morning to a noise like a motor running, ahh bollocks, that will be flat, key in and it started,ran it to temp,parked it on the flat and it's still making that noise.

 

Bonnet up, it's not the compressor,electric fans weren't turning,narrowed it to n/s headlamp, it doesn't have electronic headlight adjusters so wasn't that

 

It was the wiper motor for the headlight

 

Why the fuck would it suddenly in the dead of night decide to start wiping the headlight?

 

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[colino]

They don't usually switch themselves on, they sometimes have a faulty park mechanism so keep on wiping until you notice them and pull the fuse.

[Skizzer]

I was too tired to care

 

It felt this, and was crying.

 

P38 electrics:  so complex, they have achieved consciousness.

[Rusty_Rocket]

Please don't.  You're giving me cold sweats, reminding me of the 18 months of hell with my '95 4.6 HSE.

[AlabamaShrimp]

P-38?

 

[PiperCub]

^^ Now that sir, my kind of transport - single seat, two big-ass supercharged motors, 400+mph level.

Proper a/c - none of your jet rubbish.

 

A mates Rangie had many electrical issues but to be fair to it, most were caused by one or more previous owners being an appaling bodger of the first order. Lots of wiring 'mods' presumably to attempt to cure another problem but causing several others!

[Lacquer Peel]

Poor man's Metrocab.

[Pillock]

Next you'll be moaning the headlamp wipers don't work. No pleasing some folk!

[John F]

P-38?

 

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P38?

 

[Tamworthbay]

I hate to mention the offensive word, but isn't it multiplex wiring? The work of satan.

[mercrocker]

So, we have a vehicle here that could cost as much as a WW2 aircraft to put right, makes buyers run quicker than the sight of a tin of Isopon and has as much prejudice heaped against it as the 1970s oil-in-frame version of the Triumph Bonneville. Code name of that bike frame? P38 of course....

[bigfella2]

So WCPGW?

[Tayne]

Alternator and battery ok?

Most p38 electrical issues can be traced back to one or another as they're so voltage sensitive.

Not sure that applies in this case though...

[Guest Lord Sward]

For all their faults, they're still the last socially acceptable Range Rover.  Class.

[John F]

So, we have a vehicle here that could cost as much as a WW2 aircraft to put right, makes buyers run quicker than the sight of a tin of Isopon and has as much prejudice heaped against it as the 1970s oil-in-frame version of the Triumph Bonneville. Code name of that bike frame? P38 of course....

 

Ownership of a vehicle like this might make the owner wish for another sort of P38, this one made by the German company Walther...

 

[AlabamaShrimp]

What about this P38? I heard he's a proper shit

 

[Negative Creep]

P-38?

 

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Always loved these. Usually the American way would be to copy something else but make it bigger, except here they took a  completely different direction, even if it meant it wasn't that great as a pure fighter

[HH-R]

The P38 is the only LR/RR product I have any time for. Thankfully that doesn't translate into anything more than admiring them in someone else's ownership.

[John F]

Always loved these. Usually the American way would be to copy something else but make it bigger, except here they took a  completely different direction, even if it meant it wasn't that great as a pure fighter

 

Not entirely true... the Dutch Fokker G.1 heavy fighter had a very similar layout and first flew in March 1937 whereas the design spec for the Lightning was only drafted in Febriary 1937.

 

 

 

The German Focke-Wulf Fw 189 reconnaisance aircraft also flew before the Lightning, it had a similar layout: