Originally Posted by
Barraman
I left home last Thursday a week ago, heading for King Ash Bay with a 6.7M in tow. Overnighted in Isa, got up next morning and to my horror found that the Disco would not come out of park. I rang Landrover Assist, who subcontracted the job to the RACQ.
I am left with the view that the RACQ technicians who attended were well out of their depth - unable to get it out of park. I don't think they rang the LR technical help number, which I advised them existed, for help. Soon defaulted to "it will have to be towed". They were also unable to get the vehicle into neutral to allow it to be easily loaded into a tilt truck.
Mt Isa is not a good place to have a broken down Disco!
I have to say that the LR Assist people were extremely helpful. They organised for my Disco to be trucked to Townsville and paid for five days rental of a suitable 4x4 to allow us to continue our fishing adventure.
After a horror start, we had a great week's fishing, boating 102 barra in 5 days.
Fortunately, through my work, I have friends on the Barkly Tableland and was able to drop the boat off on the way back to Isa to return the rental, and I fly out in the morning.
Will be interesting to find out the cause of the problem and I look forward to getting my Disco back - less so to the 2600 km drive to retrieve my boat!
On the occasions you stopped the car and switched off the engine, was it your habit to move the gearchange selector/rotator into "PARK" yourself or did you allow the servo/solenoid/actuator or whatever it is called, on the rotator, to do it?
I am trying to determine/just a thought, if by chance this problem could be accentuated by allowing it to do the task?
What are others thoughts about this please, am I barking completely up the wrong tree?
Before: Ser 2a LWB, Ser 3 S/W, 1979 RR 2 door, 1981 LR Stage 1 V8 (new), 1985 LR 110 V8 County (new), 2009 RRS TDV8
Now: MY13 D4 TDV6. "E" rear diff. Cambo's magic Engine & Auto Tune.
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