Calamity, Concern, or just slit my wrists (Auto Trans Issues)

**ATH** · 29th October 2020, 07:02 PM

Originally Posted by DUCKSNUTS

You sound like fun.
Having lived in Broome for years every 3 months I drove my D3 Broome to Bunbury return and always sat on 135kph from Broome to just north of Perth and cops would just wave to slow down or flash their lights, never a ticket. Have even been overtaken by Police no lights flashing while doing my 135 for them to disappear in the distance.
No way does towing at 100 or 110 put any strain on a trans worth any note. Thats why the car is rated for 3.5 tonne towing up hill down dale and its rated that only due to braking and weight swinging, not the transmission. I never overheated even in 50C and my daily distances were always 1500-1700kms a hit at 135kph so no its not a trans issue. Its a ZF that goes behind Turbo Fords and other way more powerful cars.
I have rebuilt transmissions for many years not just guessing. I also add myself the Ford pan and flush early and regular, don't ever believe LR sealed for life.

If you want to do that, that's OK with me. I was just having a gentle dig at Gavin and the attitude of the cops whose own standard of driving ain't up to much from what I've seen. But "Speed kills" apparently, sod all the other idiotic behaviour on the roads.
Plus having read all the other threads on the robustness or otherwise of our vehicles, I tend to be over cautious about what I make the thing do. I rarely bother booting it except to pass so many of the other van tuggers who I suspect get their only fun in life from holding up others on the road.

Plus I think you're exceptionally lucky not to get a ticket from the revenue raisers as that seems to be their sole reason for being out there..... apart from pulling bodies out of smashed vehicles that is.

AlanH.

**Bohica** · 30th October 2020, 10:06 AM

Originally Posted by DUCKSNUTS

You sound like fun.
Having lived in Broome for years every 3 months I drove my D3 Broome to Bunbury return and always sat on 135kph from Broome to just north of Perth and cops would just wave to slow down or flash their lights, never a ticket. Have even been overtaken by Police no lights flashing while doing my 135 for them to disappear in the distance.
No way does towing at 100 or 110 put any strain on a trans worth any note. Thats why the car is rated for 3.5 tonne towing up hill down dale and its rated that only due to braking and weight swinging, not the transmission. I never overheated even in 50C and my daily distances were always 1500-1700kms a hit at 135kph so no its not a trans issue. Its a ZF that goes behind Turbo Fords and other way more powerful cars.
I have rebuilt transmissions for many years not just guessing. I also add myself the Ford pan and flush early and regular, don't ever believe LR sealed for life.

In Victoria you get castrated for driving that far above the speed limit.

**PerthDisco** · 30th October 2020, 10:24 AM

These guys took their old D3 stick shift on the autobahn to prove above 160kmh the suspension lowers 20mm only raising again when you go below 130kmh for 30 seconds.

Seemed to do it quite happily and surprisingly the autobahn is not like some 8 lane immaculate air strip road.

Wife driving with kid in the back on way home from BMX.

At 130 they were the slowest on the road.

“Zee Germans know how to obey zee rules” is why it works compared to Straya.

They normally have a rooftop tent which they took off.

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**Tombie** · 30th October 2020, 10:27 AM

Originally Posted by PerthDisco

These guys took their old D3 stick shift on the autobahn to prove above 160kmh the suspension lowers 20mm only raising again when you go below 130 for 5 seconds.

Seemed to do it quite happily and surprisingly the autobahn is not like some 8 lane immaculate air strip road.

At 130 they were the slowest on the road.

“Zee Germans know how to obey zee rules” is why it works.

They normally have a rooftop tent which they took off.

Another thing you may not know about you Land Rover Discovery 3 - YouTube

It works very well

**PerthDisco** · 30th October 2020, 10:29 AM

Originally Posted by Tombie

It works very well

I was well aware you have tested it

Calamity, Concern, or just slit my wrists (Auto Trans Issues)

but did you have your wife driving with kid in back while you filmed and played with a scan tool to verify the data

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**PerthDisco** · 30th October 2020, 10:32 AM

Originally Posted by Bohica

In Victoria you get castrated for driving that far above the speed limit.

My experience driving to Melbourne a few years ago the roads are not autobahn quality and 100kmh may be too excessive. The roads from the border onward have whoop-de-doos.

**Tombie** · 30th October 2020, 11:04 AM

Originally Posted by PerthDisco

I was well aware you have tested it

but did you have your wife driving with kid in back while you filmed and played with a scan tool to verify the data

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Never had the kids in the vehicle at those speeds.

Have, years ago had the wife say “step on it” - in a very quick street car.

I obliged and said to her to say when to stop accelerating and it’s engage cruise.

We needed up cruising for 2 hours at a little over 200+

Up north it was.

**Bohica** · 30th October 2020, 12:43 PM

Originally Posted by PerthDisco

My experience driving to Melbourne a few years ago the roads are not autobahn quality and 100kmh may be too excessive. The roads from the border onward have whoop-de-doos.

The dual carriageway, from Melbourne to Ballarat is excellent, good up 160kph. It's the fascist government here.

**ATH** · 31st October 2020, 07:28 PM

Originally Posted by Bohica

In Victoria you get castrated for driving that far above the speed limit.

Actually I think that post was bull**** as the cops here certainly wouldn't be giving you a warning by flashing their lights etc. But I'm far too polite to say such a thing.

AlanH.

**BradC** · 31st October 2020, 08:03 PM

Originally Posted by ATH

Actually I think that post was bull**** as the cops here certainly wouldn't be giving you a warning by flashing their lights etc. But I'm far too polite to say such a thing.

AlanH.

I dunno, I've done similar and had the old hand out the window with the "gentle downward pressure" movement from the local plod.
I suppose it depends on a number of factors. I've been pulled over going much quicker and driven/ridden away with nothing more than a "be a bit more careful". Even got to indirectly call one of the cops a dickhead (as in, "why were you going so fast". "Well officer, there was this dickhead in a Commodore sitting a foot off my back wheel and the faster I went, the faster he went"). The driver was indirectly chastised by the wiser and older officer who had been sitting in the passenger seat and I got waved on with a "take care".

WA cops can be reasonable if you pass the attitude test or drive a car that doesn't look like it can actually go as fast as the LIDAR says it did.
Of course in my younger days I've had plenty of tickets too.

My favourite though was in the UAE doing 140 over and having a quiet chat with the local plod, being offered a fruit juice and being asked to "take it a bit easier". Don't think I'd get away with that in WA.

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