Can someone teach me how the joystick in a 1999 Discovery SE works, I am a Jeep guy and we could not get this friends Rover into the gears we wanted. If I understand correctly the vehicle is always in 4 wheel drive HI, with open differentials; meaning one front and one back wheel are turning at freeway speeds. The joystick normally is positioned on the right side and appears to be centered front to back. Also there are no extra dash lights lit up. When the joystick is moved directly left of that position it seemed to be in a "locked' and LOW gear, it climbed the dirt like it should and was positively in a LOW range with an added dash light. For the life of me I could not get the joystick to move forward or backwards from either the left or right position to select what I would of thought was HI and LOW range settings. For me right position was 4 HI with an open diff, and the left position was 4 LOW with a locked diff. Is something broken? Can the joy stick be moved in a H pattern to allow HI or LOW in an open diff, and HI or LOW with a locked diff? Would someone with a 99 owners manual be willing to email the pages to me as the owner does not have the manual. Also I should add that all of the time we tried to make shifts we were on loose dirt, with the transmission in neutral, and the Rover either stopped or very slowly rolling. Thanks for any input you can provide
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20 years ago