My D4 stalled a few times on Big Red...it does/can happen
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I have never stalled my auto D2a and I have pushed it pretty hard on the big sand dunes we have here, Maybe it is a bit of a case of Over Engineering on the D4's that cause this to happen?
Sounds like someone needs to release a software patch, or direct LandRover to this thread and get a recall. Seems serious enough
Almost all stalling is driver error...
Mine didn't. It just easily made it up the hardest sections many times, much to the amazement of the audience of Patrol and Cruiser owners who couldn't get near the top! A couple of times I got off line in the bumps at the bottom and it did stop while just coming over the top but it didn't stall. But then again I got off the throttle with some mechanical sympathy, not just a massive lift off under full power!
I found that the best thing was to do it in third gear low range, as I would have in my old Chev Patrol. I also tried second, which was OK but third was better and didn't require huge throttle settings. I think I also did it one time in fourth low to see how it would do it and it made it fine also.