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New Disco Gear change problem - Corrections

Clarifications as requested. Sorry for earlier lack of precision (I have also corrected the body of the message ):

Simon: TD5, manual box. Richard: 12,200 miles.

Sorry if this has all been asked answered before but I would appreciate any comments.

I bought a new TD5 disco last August and since then have been working / battling with the dealer and now LR themselves over gearchange problems.

The vehicle is now on its third box and the present problem - a clunky change up from second to third is still very noticeable. (An earlier problem changing up from first to second disappeared after a very worrying crunching sound one morning on the way to work). The vehicle does most of it's work on normal roads with twenty or thirty 'rough track' miles most weeks - it had it's 12,000 mile service a couple of weeks ago..

The local dealer, although helpful, seems to have run out of ideas (although he did suggest that the recent removal of a "lead counterweight" may be involved ) and LR in a recent letter told me (I've paraphrased but not distorted) "we make the best four wheel drives in the world and there is nothing wrong with yours. Go away.).

Overlooking LRs odd view of customer service for the time being, can anyone shed any light on possible causes?

Incidently, this is my third Disco (hence my confusion between TDi / TD5) so I am reasonably sure that this is not, as LR would have me believe "typical of the marque"

Much Obliged

GYH

Reply to
Gao Yuan Hong
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Ok - well, what do you mean by clunky? Is it just notchy where the gearbox is still tight? 12000 miles is quite low for a Landy, they don't feel run in until 20k!

Reply to
Simon Atkinson

Simon Well oddly enough, low mileage is not one of the excuses that LR have wheeled out so far - and I suspect that if that's all it was then they would have been only too happy to use it.

Quite hard to describe accurately, but by 'clunky' I mean that I can feel resistance and something "catching / vibrating" as I change up from second to third gear. I suspect that, given half a chance, the gear stick would quite happily bounce back to neutral rather than go into third.

I was keen not to skew any answers with my initial post, but what has made me deeply suspicious of this whole affair were comments made by two of the dealer's representatives:

1) " I wish I could tell you that the next box will be better, but I just can't" ( but nor did he say that I was being unreasonable in wanting it fixed - that role fell to LR themselves.....)

2) "I can't say much more, but a lead counterweight was removed from the gear change mechanism recently and you are not the only person to complain"

All a bit odd.

Reply to
Gao Yuan Hong

In article , Gao Yuan Hong writes

The gear knobs on RRC used to be very heavy to ensure less effort was involved in changing gear on the LT77.

Maybe the bean counters have been lowed to make another silly decision

Try moving the gear lever slower between gears and see if that is any different.

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marc

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