Land Rover Repair: Freelander starting problems, mobile phone masts, engine management system

Question
I have a 1999 landrover freelander xedi (i think!). I can unlock the car via the fob but the car will not start, everything comes on as if it's going to but the starter motor does not turn. I've been told it's to do with wireless networks and mobile phone masts. I found this hard to beleive but recently bought a bluetooth device and on pluggin this in it stopped the car from starting. I waited half an hour then everything was ok, the car started. It needed this amount of time to settle as numerous attempts prior to this failed to start the car. I repeated this test to prove it and the car died again! The problem is now more of my neighbours are setting up home networks and I worried it will render my car usless. The reason for asking is that my car has the same symptoms now but I've not used the bluetooth device and I've broken down before near mobile cell masts in the past. The only fix is to push the car as far away as possible and then wait about half an hour before it will start.
Any help would be much appreciated as it's driving me crazy. I did go to a LR specialist who told me about this and replaced the RF receiver but my bluetooth device just killed it again! He then wanted to replace the engine management system at a huge cost but would not guarantee it would fix the problem!!! I will be lining his pockets at this rate.

Steve


Answer
In many countries it is possible to reconfigure the engine and security controls to "non-robust" mode where the engine does not ever get disabled.

See if they can do that for you, or disable radio locking.

If that fixes your symptom, you kow what it is and I'd just live with using a key in the lock.