Thread: Please make me feel better broke my disco and trying not to get depressed about it.

I feel your pain, mines in the body shop after a minor altercation in a car park that left it with a front wheel with a lot of camber on it and a few dented panels.

Could part of your problem be related to wiring to your height sensor? The wheel arch liner may have moved and damaged the wiring...might be worth a look, although the cars usually resort to standard height if the sensors are confusing it. The movement might have also done something to other wiring around there, so check it all.

Not sure about the steering to be honest, unless the dsc is applying brakes when it shouldn't be..

Wheel arch liner is still in place around the height sensor

Maybe it was enough push to push the body off the chassis alignment so it twisted everything?

Don't think so. Wouldn't have been going more than 2-3 kms/hr

And how can I jack it up to check in the wheel
arch if I can't raise the suspension to off-road height as per the
instructions in the manual?

As you have stated, the suspension works until you drive so off-road height should work if you don't drive after starting. The suspension system is lowering due to a brake/steering fault - nothing wrong with the system itself.

I suspect there's a problem with the steering angle sensor, perhaps loose or a loose electrical connection or just needs to be calibrated, that is causing all the problems. The steering angle sensor is monitored by the brake system.

If you don't have front parking sensors then the rear ones don't reactivate when the trailer plug is removed until the engine is restarted - a poor bit of design or programming.

Did the rear wheel impact the tree ? If so, could it be as simple as severely bad wheel alignment or something bent / broken in the rear suspension ?

Did you hook up your Nanocom ? What errors are logged ?

For my two cents worth..but I will say my knowledge on Discoveries is limited, but given the speed of the impact is minimal, I would suggest to disconnect the battery for an hour or so.

Now maybe it's a Jeep thing, but whenever my Jeep gets issues like error codes etc, you disconnect the battery, let it sit for a while and it clears the error codes.

Doesn't always work, but no harm in trying, given how many sensors are on cars now & they are computer controlled, like a home PC, disconnect to re set and if it doesn't work, get it checked out.

tiddy