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Thanks very much John. Just what I needed as my Daughters car is getting this issue.

I have the same problem on C2, changed both sensors and the issue is still there.

Excellent explanation! Thank you for this!

I have a small 127m2 lawn - mostly weeds - in a garden that I am away from most of the time as my house is in France and I currently have to spend most of my time in England. 4 months ago I installed one of these to try to keep the weeds under control while I am away and I have to say that so far I am very impressed! I am aware that the manufacturers don't encourage using the landroid while unattended but life's not that simple as we all know and I think they would do well to maybe try to cater to remote users by adding a user override on the app to take control after it has gone into outside of wire lockdown, even after it has shut down, and directional controls to the app to try to get it back within the wire should it stray - assuming the user has visual CCTV contact as I do! My lawn is small but pretty uneven with a pronounced slope off around 2 sides and a fallen tree in one corner which is the main obstacle. I ran the guide wire on an isolated loop around this tree from the get go as I figured this would be prudent to keep the droid from getting stuck in the deep holes around the base and v-branch cul-de-sac at the other end. However, this has thrown up the only snag to my cunning plan in that if the droid goes into return to home mode automatically and hits the isolated circuit around the tree first it will just keep going around the tree in edge mode until it gets stuck. I don't know for sure if it will work out that it's on a separate loop and go looking for the outer wire circuit because it gets stuck in one of those holes I mentioned first. But that is the ONLY time it has got stuck so far and I now have 147 hours on the clock. I already had a CCTV system on my garden but I upgraded the existing static mute camera to PTZ with sound and added a second for full coverage. So now I can see and hear when the weather is good to set the droid off manually and keep an eye on it. I am now confident that there is no need to watch it while it's mowing but after 3 hours on a 4000mah battery it's time to call it home so I watch for when it's approaching the outer ring and hit the home button on the app. On the 4000mah battery sometimes it can go up to 4 hours and other times it will barely make 3 so it appears to vary the charge amount on a cycle which is why I need to keep an eye on it after 2 hours to make sure. Next spring I will re install the guide wire taking in more of the lawn now that I know what it can cope with and miss out the fallen tree. For that I guess I will need to get the OFF LIMITS kit. It does have the anti collision eyes so I might try that first to see how it goes. Hopefully then I will be able to leave it to run itself fully autonamously confident that it won't get stuck anywhere. Once on CCTV I watched it get caught up in overhanging brambles that had grown out since I last left the place. It was tugging back and forth and I thought for sure it would give up, but it just kept pulling, reversing, pulling one way, reversing pulling another over and over until eventually it was free. I have seen it get stuck in a couple of places on the lawn and work itself free, it's very tenacious! It also seems to learn as it hasn't got stuck in those places lately. So a lesson there is to make sure that anything likely to grow and overhang while you are away should be mercilessly cut back. Also, when it's really dry and the droid is in edge mode it will slide sideways on the one edge of the lawn a noticeable distance but it keeps going until it reacquires the wire and gets back on track. My garden is next to a road but has a high wall so not easily accessible for anybody with ill intent. In anycase the droid has built in security including a PIN - make sure to change it from default!! - to turn it on and an alarm which sounds and sends an app notification if picked up. This would make it not a lot of use as it stands to a would be theif but someone might decide to help themselves to the battery. One really good thing about the landroid from a security point of view is that it is so quiet it doesn't announce itself to the neighbourhood from an enclosed garden even when running. I hope to make a video about it on my channel probably early next year but in the meantime I can thoroughly recommend!

Just an update to my previous post. Having read the Haynes manual and looked at the wiring diagram. The only thing the Blue (1 wire ) ECT does is high temperature. The green (2 wire ) does everything else including the fan and gauge. I've disconnected the Blue and the car now runs as it should. The wire from the Blue sensor is connected into the green sensor ( somewhere ) this then goes to the ECU. So from my experience the Blue, is purely for 120 C overheat. I've had electronic thermostat on engine on both sensors whilst driving the car and both are fine IE around 80 C peak. With the Blue sensor plugged in according to live data it goes from 206 F to 245 F which brings the high temp light on. So I'm now driving around with Blue not connected. What is the probable cause is that somewhere the wire from the blue sensor is shorting out. But unplugged that won't occur. Hope this helps others.

Thank you for your product review. I appreciate it.

i have citroen c3 temp gauge problem. 2015 model. They can't find the reason. I can't fix it. What do you recommend

changed both sensors. but keeps showing full temp only when the fan turns on. when the fan turns off goes back to 3 bars instant. ??? no clue any advice?

Tnx bro!

Hi I have this problem, car runs fine, then temp goes to 5 then drops. After a few times of this happening, engine management light came on. Read the codes and it said Po117 & Po118. Changed both sensors and thermostat. Road tested and still doing the same. Difference now is the temperature gauge doesn’t drop until car has cooled sufficiently after turning engine off. Yesterday after having the car running on my drive, for 45 minutes, I then took it for a drive after 4 mile went to high temp bar 5 turned off, then drove a mile it went up, stopped repeated, drove home 4 mile and left engine running for 45 minutes all was fine. Any ideas as to what it could be now? Just to update, I changed blue sensor a week ago, code then changed to Po117. Changed the green one yesterday. Brings us up to date.

Really happy to hear him say he keeps his batteries paired to keep the cells balanced. I do the same thing, even with my AA and AAA batteries.

If this is broken on mine. Could it be responsible for not starting the engine cooling fan? Checked all relay&fuses and they seem to be just fine.

Good video. I think I'll pass on that lawn mower.

Hi what happens if this is unplugged when engine running will the fan kick in? My Peugeot 206 is same engine and fan does not work old one was seized so I replaced it with new one it still doesn’t work when car is hot. Any advice???

I have my mower approx 5 months and today my second battery is showing a red light and is mot recharging.. what to do?

If you keep your lawn mowed every week. Max 2 weeks these are great. If you don’t they’re terrible and will shut off because they can’t mow through the tall grass.

Can I put one 40V and it for it to turn on ?

How did it hold up?

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do you think they can be wired serial....fot 80v Input and 2x 6v out (also in series to 12v)? ....with simular resistors for setting.

sudo mppt 😀 what a great descriiption! (dont have my glasses here....so ,sorry for spelling. sudo su was a long time working rootkt .....you know, i am shure. and also sorry for my poor english !

My car's radiator fan doesn't kick in and it does work when i turn on the aircon. I plug and unplug the grey plug on top of the radiator, sometimes it kicks in and the temperature gauge does down to 3 bars and then the fan stops and bars go up to 6. Is the solution in the video gonna fix my problem as well?

Spot on. We have a C3 999cc and we've been messing about looking at OBD error codes etc with no look (even mechanics!) This base model C3 has not gage just a blue temp light for cold and when off normal, however an engine warning comes on occasionally with can full on even when it's cold (as you describe a while back when you made this vid). So..... Thank you for doing this research and keeping this vid up there. Have a beer on me 😊.

Thank you so much

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How do you know when its full .does it beep or somthing

Hi John, I tought I had left a comment here before but it must have got lost. I saw you can buy 4Ah batteries on Amazon but they are around £70 which seems a lot. I bought a Parkside 4Ah battery direct from Germany for under £30. It's interesting the air compressor is so good as most I have seen are hopeless. I guess you get what you pay for.

I wish I had an automatic lawn cutter, it's one of my least favourite jobs. Unfortunately our garden is in three separate lawns and would be too big for your Worx anyway. 😒 It's good to here you're having no issues with yours.

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I have the same problem with an C3 2002 1.4 16V can I just disconnect the plug and then drive safely home to fix the sensor.

Very funny video, and it's true, when the landroid start working, you can stay watching for hours :)

Hello John.. My car is a 2003 Citroen C3 and I have the same problem, but I do not have the blue temperature sensor.... The temperature rises from 3 to 5 and the cooling fan does not work..... Do you have a solution? .... Thank you

How are you finding the mower now? going for surgery soon and want to invest in an automower as won’t be fit to manually cut it.

Useful thanks! I might have the same issue on a 2017 Dispatch

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Ive just bought one, its great..... but. On my maiden run found it stalled regularly. Weve just moved into a new place and the grass was long and thick, it had also been raining a lot (but not in the previous 24hrs or more). I set the mower to turbo and had the body lifted pretty high and every time Id hit a big clump of grass itd stop. Im not familiar with electric lawnmowers, and maybe Im expecting too much, but does this sound normal to you? Thanks for the vid!

Thanks for this video!

Hi John, did you film a Part2 follow up? I’m looking at making one just the same

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Nice job!

Thank you very much. You helped me a lot!

Is this the 17 inch model?

Good find John. Do you think it came loose by itself, was someone in there before or was it never properly tightened from the factory?

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great video, john 👍. I wanna buy the 2022 model of the M 500 plus next days 😀

Can you please let us know where did you buy the gear set?

Hi, I also fitted metal selector gears (bit more noisy) and angular contact bearings (best upgrade to do) also replaced the shaft so I could use a 4" chuck... along with many other upgrades including making a new banjo for the change gears. Might have to do my drive pulleys now!