Thread: Just brought a disco

Originally Posted by cooper

Good on youDon't think you annoyed anyone and if you did,again,good on you.They do help on here but we also enjoy a bit of fun.Sometimes at others expense.Rest assured we have all been through it,there is no malice in it usually,just a means to a smile.Enjoy your new car and us.

A new contender for a peerage on the skully thread, Cooper?

Originally Posted by wallie

sorry to have annoyed soo many people with my question. I'm Wallies missus, bought the disco cause it is a 7 seater and can fit all kids comfortably.

Asked what traction control is cause my man tried explaining it to me and I still didn't fully understand. Thought the forum was used for helping out other land rover owners which I now am and I am very happy with my purchase...........

Didn't annoy us at all. Cartm58 had answered the TC aspect already so I didn't have to but I might add a bit to it.

One an "open" differential (the usual type fitted to most cars and to the front and rear of the Disco), if one wheel lifts or loses traction, all drive will go to that wheel and none to the wheel with traction. As you can imagine this isn't a lot of good and is the reason some cars and 4WDs have limited slip diffs - to minimise the slip and give some drive to the wheel with traction.

What LR have done is to electronically apply a technique we've used for years when in similar situations in cars (not LRs for reasons I'll explain later). Years ago, when bogged, we found that by applying the hand brake which works on the rear wheels, we could stop the wheel with no traction and therefore get enough drive to the wheel with traction to enable us to drive out.

This won't work on an LR because the handbrake is on the transmission, not on the wheels.

The LR senses which wheel is spinning (by using the signal from the ABS) and then applies the brake on that wheel only. This transfers the power and drive to the other wheel. This is termed traction control.