Drive Through Brakes in Normal mode?

[Stuart02]

Feel like a numpty asking this one but was trying to delicately park in a tight spot against a gutter and every time I gave the car a nudge with the left foot on the brake it wasn't interested, just powered down.

Do I need to use a different mode? Can I not use Normal?

[Tombie]

Brake and Throttle Pedal at the same time doesn’t work!
The vehicle sees it as combatting features.

If you want a slow nudge, select Low Range and let it creep on the brake at idle.

[scarry]

Thats why left foot brakers have issues with modern vehicles,as they unknowingly, sometimes drag the brake pedal.

I know a guy who bought a D4,quite a few years ago, and had all sorts of issues with it.While the dealer had it for a few days,the loan car started to have the same issues.

He was a left foot braker.Changed his driving style,never had the issue again.

[DiscoJeffster]

The car flags an error event that you can pull with a diag tool every time it sees a brake and accelerator combined event. It’s considered a fault, not something one should do. Unless you’re a racing driver, I agree.

[DieselLSE]

Have to laugh about this. I mean the brake cancelling out the accelerator. You can just imagine all those ones and noughts trying to figure out what's going on, giving up and replying "computer says No"!
I suppose this means that the old Series technique of leaving the left foot on the brake for a little while after river crossings to dry out the drum brakes is well and truly consigned to history and the failing memory of us old farts. You learned this after your first river crossing where the exit was a steep bank. You'd try to stop, but your brakes would be useless and you'd simply slide back (well, not slide really as your wheels would happily be rolling unhindered) into the river. The transmission brake might grip, but there was always the danger that it could slew you sideways and you'd have even less control. It only took one experience for you to always keep going up, with your left foot on the brake, until you found a flat spot to stop.
Then cresting a steep track with, I swear, the last revolution of the motor. But I'm getting nostalgic. All those tracks that I conquered with skill, wheel placement, throttle control and brilliant driving I now cruise up in the D4 with barely a spill from the crystal champagne glass. Not sure the D4 even needs me there at all...

[DiscoJeffster]

Not sure the D4 even needs me there at all...

Well who’s going to top up the champagne?

[DieselLSE]

Well who’s going to top up the champagne?

You mean there isn't a button for that?

[DiscoJeffster]

You mean there isn't a button for that?

Maybe on the D5. No way on the new Defender though. While it’s a pretty thing and capable, auto-champer dispenser is the realm of the Disco model.

[DieselLSE]

Maybe on the D5. No way on the new Defender though. While it’s a pretty thing and capable, auto-champer disbursement is the realm of the Disco model.

If only Landrover was owned by the French.

[W&KO]

I don’t own a late model car...but drive hire car a lot.

I still keep to the age old method off

Right foot is for brake or accelerator

Left foot is for clutch.

Some hire cars have an electronic handbrake that disengages when you press the accelerator, this doesn’t feel like its being friendly to the brakes so I disengage manually.