I have a Range Rover 3.5EFI 1986 auto mainly used for offroading. I think I have a gearbox problem, the car seems very sluggish and seems to change from 1st to top and miss out the middle stages. A real shove will make it kick back down to 1st. When it evenyually goes from first to the next gear it almost feels hesitant as if it is the engine is holding back. I was towing a Suzuki up a slight hill at the weekend and it seemed to go straight into top gear, I was doing about 30mph and it would not change down no matter how hard I kicked the accelerator. Which meant I struggled in top eventually only doing 20mph!! Oil levels in the box seem ok, but when I finally got home it started to make some grinding and graunching noises, does this sound terminal? I tow the same Suzuki with my TD5 and have no problems at all. I must admit the overall performance of the RR is very dissapointing for a V8. The TD5 will easily out perform it although against my friends 3.9 bobtail the TD5 is about level on performance. Could a gearbox fault give this complete lack of performance?
TIA
Martin