DerbyTup
7th Sep 2008, 06:47
When I bought my new Discovery 3, almost 3 years ago, I didn't realise that having an automatic gear box would mean that the car would choose a gear it fancies and stay in it for some time.
The other week I drove from North to South and the blighter was stuck permanently in 3rd gear. I suppose it could have been worse. I took it into a Land Rover dealer the next day who asked me if I had a brake light out. Which I did. He said this can cause it to go into "safe mode" and stick in one gear. How bizarre!
Anyhow, there's been a couple of further occasions in the past few weeks when it has got stuck in 1st gear and 2nd gear. Well, at least it's trying to share the fault evenly across the gears in the box. Maybe it will be the turn of 4th and 5th gears next? I have no stop lights out as far as I'm aware.
So, I'm a bit concerned actually. I bought this car with the intention of keeping it forever, more or less. But if it is going to start playing up with something as potentially expensive as the automatic box then maybe I'd be best shut of it. It's done 75,000 motorway miles mainly, since new, 3 years ago. Yes - I use it for commuting North to South every week. And I prefer to do that 170 mile run using the full range of the gearbox!
On the last 2 occasions that it has stuck in gear I've managed to rectify the fault by switching off the engine and re-starting it again. But, if this quick cure fails then...?
Anyone got any experience of this? What on earth is happening with the thing? Is an expensive repair looming or is this some quirky Landy problem that is of no big concern?
The other week I drove from North to South and the blighter was stuck permanently in 3rd gear. I suppose it could have been worse. I took it into a Land Rover dealer the next day who asked me if I had a brake light out. Which I did. He said this can cause it to go into "safe mode" and stick in one gear. How bizarre!
Anyhow, there's been a couple of further occasions in the past few weeks when it has got stuck in 1st gear and 2nd gear. Well, at least it's trying to share the fault evenly across the gears in the box. Maybe it will be the turn of 4th and 5th gears next? I have no stop lights out as far as I'm aware.
So, I'm a bit concerned actually. I bought this car with the intention of keeping it forever, more or less. But if it is going to start playing up with something as potentially expensive as the automatic box then maybe I'd be best shut of it. It's done 75,000 motorway miles mainly, since new, 3 years ago. Yes - I use it for commuting North to South every week. And I prefer to do that 170 mile run using the full range of the gearbox!
On the last 2 occasions that it has stuck in gear I've managed to rectify the fault by switching off the engine and re-starting it again. But, if this quick cure fails then...?
Anyone got any experience of this? What on earth is happening with the thing? Is an expensive repair looming or is this some quirky Landy problem that is of no big concern?