Discovery 4 hesitation

I have had this issue in my RRS, stop at the lights, when they change i go to take off and nothing. not a flat spot, nothing. i then release the Accelerator and push it down again and all is OK. This happened a few times when the Car was brand new, i took it to the Stealers and no faults were showing. Over the last 7 years it has maybe done it 4 or 5 times, not in the last 3-4 years though. I have put it down to my Accelerator foot slightly depressing the brake when taking off thus meaning the car does nothing. I might be wrong!?!?!

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Originally Posted by Carrow81

Hi all
I totally agree with theres no replacement for displacement. And totally don't expect the car to behave in the same manner power wise to the landcrusier but when a car in the 21st century, does not pull away when you apply the accelerator there definitely something wrong. We live in a rural area about 60 kms to town, today we drove the car, coming out of the driveway rolling on the brakes as its on an incline, foot off the brake, went to accelerate slowly onto the main road and dead, no momentum at all just like the car stalled, pulled my foot off the accelerator and stabbed the throttle way we go. I didn't notice black smoke from the rear of the car, I gave it some salt & pepper to town, and honestly never noticed it driving around town. we booked the vehicle in at land rover in newcastle to give it the once over and if continues ill mention it when i drop the car off.

Thanks for everyones input much appreciated.

Hi mate,

IÂ’m with you - thatÂ’s dangerous and shouldnÂ’t be doing that. ItÂ’s a fault. Too many lovers in here not being subjective. ItÂ’s a fault true and simple.

So just a bit more information. When you start off in first (manual) does it do it? Does it do it in sport mode? Is it doing it every time or occasional / random? When you go to accelerate is the car at running temperature or cold?

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We drove the car last night to town and on the driveway slight incline car wouldn't move in reverse it took some time to get to move, it was like the torque convertor was not engaging. Honestly i haven't tried manual or the sports mode. The first time the car was at running temp second time my brother was driving it the car was warm. Third time the car had a 5 min warm up before driving off. And last night 5min warm up also. It seems random so far. The best outcome now is that land rover can diagnose the "problems" and sought out the warranty with where i purchased the vehicle.

Regards

chris

I had the same issue with mine, the gearbox fluid was low and allowing aeration of the oil meaning that the gearbox didn't have sufficient pressure build up at lower speeds. Get the box serviced and the oil levels checked.

LTB00369v2 - Vehicle Hesitation When Accelerating From Low Speed | TOPIx

Check your brake pedal switch - tell me how I know?

Get the gearbox serviced. I asked Land Rover dealer for a gearbox oil change, they quoted $3,400. They said the oil is costly.


If your in Melbourne take it to A&B Automotive Remanufacturing, 12-14 Cahill St South Dandenong, 3175, tel. 97683755. They have factory ZF gearbox equipment made by ZF for their gearbox manufacturing / rebuilding and very few organisations have such gear in Australia. I did a tour of their place with the LR Club. Those guys know everything about ZF transmission issues. There is an equivalent organisation in Sydney I think.


Replacements are $8K I’ve heard. My service cost $770.00 although they knew I was a member of the Land Rover club. The transmission fluid costs over $100 retail per litre but they get it much cheaper.


They also do a diagnostic of the gearbox which includes interrogating various computer memories of what is going on. Tell them about your issues.


One good thing about Toyota is they change the oils a lot, hence their gear lasts. You should change all the diff oils, and also the gearbox. The gearbox oil (transmission fluid) will go to custard if you don't change the oil. It needs to be done by 80k and earlier if towed. Land Rover specify doing it at 210,000km, when the gearbox is out of warranty. By then its likely the gearbox will be damaged when a change would have fixed it. But Land Rover kid people about the maintenance cost. The job of some cost accountant I guess. A friend has a few Porsches and even they are not changing the fluids much on his Macan. Maybe i misspelled that ... so he gets it done more frequently. He has did some club racing for a few years in his 911 which he bought and hotted up. He's now brought it back to a factory interior because it went up in price a whole lot ... racings gone now ... !!!!


I have had lots of Toyotas and drove my bought new `1997 prado today. I still like that a lot - its nice and light. I have changed the fluids in that thing though, and they are under less stress because its much lighter than a Disco. I had a Kakado 150 series and it was horrible to drive. It had some issues too. My Disco has so far been fine except for a front suspension issue which I was not aware of fixed under warranty, a broken rear seat unlocking mechanism which LR refused to fix under extended warranty, a worn door rubber seal which LR also refused to fix under warranty. I need to import driver side rubber door seals from the UK as the price of them here is silly.

About the wheel nuts - LR say that they need to be torque wrenched to prevent the discs from going out of round .... a loose nut would not be someone who knows recent Discos. I have a never used torque wrenched for that purpose though I bought one for doing that!!! I need to buy some rotors from the UK too I guess ... maybe some better ones??? Whoops wandering off topic ...

Oh and take it to an LR specialist repair place and get them to check it out. They exist and in Melbourne several just do Land Rovers They can service it for you and they'll identify any issues that you can get fixed under your warranty.

Good luck and keep us informed.


Doug

I agree. Get a transmission specialist to service it, is my advice. I wonder if the internal filter in the auto has ever been changed.

Hi everyone

So the car made its way to land rover yesterday, and wait for it, the results are we just don't know without more time spent on the car, but numerous code faults 3 pages worth, but they were kind enough to write up a $3000 parts bill all discs are worn and all pads worn, front cv gone but no noise coming from it just the boots are torn, but what they didn't realise is they replaced the discs and pads 5000 kms ago lol and didn't log it in there online system or in the book, it was in there background system which the service staff must fill out, anyways quick wearing discs and pads i reckon or a terribly hard 5000 kms lol, i looked at the pads last night they look to have about 4mm on them and the discs have about a 1mm lip good on them for trying it on. Now the joy of chasing up toyota to warrant the problems.

regards
chris

I drive a Skoda daily and was told at 70,000km that I need new rotors.. The car just had it’s 165,000km service - still on the same rotors! [emoji35]

yep our old 200 series had 280 000 kms same rotors from new. land rover ones must be alloy lol.[wink11]

Our D4 is coming up to 75k now and we do tow a light van so I’ll get the transmission serviced. The stealer reckons they use a specialist in Osborne Park but I’ve forgotten who they said.
Any recommendations?
Cheers.
AlanH.