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

[ade]

so I backed into a tree with my TDV 06 this morning. Had dropped my trailer at a mates and was reversing concentrating on a tree at the front when I hit a tree at the rear pretty sure the reverse sensors didn't
beep, confirmed by my 8 year old daughter.. is that because I didnt turn it back on after disconnecting the trailer?
Anyhow, it was a low speed impact, see pics of damage, just scrapped the drivers side rear and broke off the right rear plastic wheel arch/mud guard.
thing is now I have faults. car will raise it self to normal height but once I start driving, it lowers with no HDC fault, no air suspension up or down, park brake works but have a yellow brake fault on the dash, yellow air suspension fault on the dash, also when I drove it from my mates to home, about three minutes drive, the steering wheel was straight as it always has been. parked up for ten minutes then drove to the shop, now for the car to drive straight, the steering wheel is 45 degrees to the left and there is a yellow fault on the dash, its a triangle with an exclamation mark in it surrounded buy a circle with an arrow. I pulled into the shops and centered the steering wheel, to find the front wheels were straight. drove home from the shops and steering wheel was same 45 degrees to the left for the car to travel straight..impact had nothing to do with the front end. Please what do I need to do?? I have a nanocom but haven't plugged it in yet and haven't done a hard reset. I haven't had a look around the wheel on the impact side but cant believe any damage was done other than superficial body stuff and the impact was so low speed.
Advice opinions please
upset
Adrian

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[Marmoset]

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..

[ade]

Wheel arch liner is still in place around the height sensor

[Meken]

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

[ade]

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

[ade]

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?

[Graeme]

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.

[Epic pooh]

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 ?

[tiddy]

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

[ade]

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 ?

Starting to think it could be wheel alignment. Going to nanocom
it today. Annoying thing is the closest panel beater is three and a half
hours away, closest landrover mech is 12 hours drive away