Thread: D3 "F" Gear Code Meaning

its landrover speak, short hand for...

"Frell you buddy, you're on your own."

means you scared it. Something had a flash of lucas, got the yotz scared out of it, did the herring sandwich loop and didnt want to talk to any of the other bits.

If its a message then it'd be "F'd if I'll be letting you do that to this car"

This happened on my brothers ML merc. He could only use about two gears and reverse, and also happened on slippery down hill drives in NZ. He was told it was the transmission going into limp mode. Gear selector showed F instead of D. He thought it meant he was "#$&@ed" as it did not happen at a good time...and it happened twice.

Wonder of the ML also has a ZF gearbox ?

Brett....

I would imagine that it would be logged as a fault in the vehicles ECU and that a Landrover dealer should be able to read that fault??
Might pay you to get a cheap fault reader. I recently bought an OBDII reader from ebay for about $24.00, and downloaded the Torque app from the Android market.

Cheers, Craig

You have registered a Fault and the car has gone into LIMP mode. The car locks in gear and wont rev above about 2000rpm, the suspension drops and you loose HDC and a few other things.

You may find the car will reset itself ( with a fault logged in the EMS ) and you back to normal once you have restarted the car. You need to get a fault code reader to tell you what the fault is, and if you get a reader that can clear the faults, such as Faultmate, or Hawkeye you can clear it out of the ECU.

HTH

Cheers Ean

Any idea why Ean?
to much variation between wheel speeds?
auto over heat?(in snow?!?)
over speed?

does the D3 have a snow setting?

Originally Posted by Pedro_The_Swift

Any idea why Ean?
to much variation between wheel speeds?
auto over heat?(in snow?!?)
over speed?

does the D3 have a snow setting?

Computer controlled cars...Do I need to say any more pedro...

That same fault registered on mine as an EGR fault, and have heard of it doing the same with several other problems as well, so it really needs to be put on a code reader.. Not sure if the wheels are connected to some sort of fault senser. Could be G/box oil temp, but only guessing.

If its a car fitted with Terrain Response then Yes it has a Snow setting.

Cheers Ean

Originally Posted by Ean Austral

You have registered a Fault and the car has gone into LIMP mode. The car locks in gear and wont rev above about 2000rpm, the suspension drops and you loose HDC and a few other things.

You may find the car will reset itself ( with a fault logged in the EMS ) and you back to normal once you have restarted the car. You need to get a fault code reader to tell you what the fault is, and if you get a reader that can clear the faults, such as Faultmate, or Hawkeye you can clear it out of the ECU.

HTH

Cheers Ean

Yes Ean, it did all reset after restarting the car. I'm not sure that it's actually a fault. It may be some sort of safety override, wanting to slow the vehicle down and prevent it from rolling or sliding. I was not using any terrain response as the conditions were wet and a bit slipperyt, but still ok for any standard vehicle. Anyway, it goes in for a service at the LR dealer in 2 weeks so they can check it out then, thanks