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andycouchman
 


Member Since: 17 Aug 2009
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United Kingdom 2007 Discovery 3 TDV6 XS Manual Zermatt SilverDiscovery 3

I tend to left foot brake quite a bit but oddly can't recall doing it much on the D3 since I got it at the beginning of August. The car's a manual so I hope that this won't be an issue. If it is, what's the quick cure, if any?

Andy Andy C  
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Andrew Hebron
 


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England 2007 Discovery 3 TDV6 SE Manual Cairns BlueDiscovery 3

I guess there's a difference in simply "using the left foot to brake" and "left-foot braking" (e.g. in rallying).

At the risk of teaching people to suck eggs...with "left-foot braking" you are applying the left-foot to the brake at speed to alter the balance of the car - putting more weight on the front (and less on the back) to rectify understeer. I.e. if the front of the car is drifting towards the outside of the corner, LFB will tuck it back in towards the apex. And you are doing so at the same time as applying a fair amount of throttle.

Doing this on the ice in Sweden in a $4!tty little diesel Corsa didn't work as the ECU cut engine power (and for LFB to work you need to maintain and balance power v braking) so to get around this we had to remove the ABS / traction control fuse AND disconnect the brake light switch.

As I said earlier, I haven't tried this in the Disco but imagine something similar would be required (and it was this safeguard that was creating the error messages earlier in this thread); however I can't really see the need, TBH. Andrew  
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10forcash
 


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United Kingdom 2007 Discovery 3 TDV6 HSE Manual Zermatt SilverDiscovery 3

andycouchman wrote:
The car's a manual so I hope that this won't be an issue. If it is, what's the quick cure, if any?
If your D3 is in the VIN range, get the dealer to apply the software upgrade detailed in LTB00025  
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