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Discoed
Member Since: 16 Jun 2010
Location: Yorkshire
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Just had confirmation from WD that they are paying my £600 bill for a new rotary gear selector and fitting, makes my £1300 premium seem very reasonable and its only the first month of the warranty!  D4 2014
1965 Land Rover series 2A (200Tdi)
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 30th Dec 2020 9:45 pm |
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ashnaylor
Member Since: 04 Aug 2020
Location: rotherham
Posts: 35
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Had it twice with mine (2015, 71000 miles) first time had it recovered to a friend's garage. His LR man cleared a fault and it got me by for a few days until I got a new one and had it fitted and all was well for a couple of months. Second time it happened when I pulled up outside my place of work. Car was in stop/start mode, I pulled up and before I could put in 'P' and switch the engine off the rotary selector turned itself to 'P' and went down. Car was showing 'Gearbox fault' and wouldn't go into gear, managed to get my mate to come out and clear the fault and it's now ok for the time being.
Looking back, when I bought the car the seller advised me to switch off stop/start mode as it was a pain in the  and I just took his word for it, wonder if he was hiding something? Apart from that and a couple of other common minor niggles I'm loving it.
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| 31st Dec 2020 8:14 pm |
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DaveJLBI
Member Since: 07 Mar 2014
Location: Clare
Posts: 682
 
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Had a bit of a moment this evening coming out from a shop. Engine powered up, selector rose up but couldn't shift it out of park. Didn't want to force it. Shut everything down a few times, no joy. Called the warranty / recovery crowd and they were sending a flat bed to pick it up and put into storage until it could be looked at on Monday (hopefully).
Then tried it one more time and everything fine. Have used it a few times to run a few errands and get home.
Is it possibly a one off or is it on the way out. Anyone have an isolated incident or is it always the start of a failure?
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| 2nd Jan 2021 11:18 pm |
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hgrimmett
Member Since: 11 Oct 2009
Location: Bledlow
Posts: 901
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Our car is blocking a car park in Wendover at the moment, stuck in reverse!? Rotary selector is up and won't turn, dash says R and the car won't start. I'm guessing a failed interlock that sprung back and locked the rotary knob. RAC is on the way to recover now
It's been a bit dicky moving out of P recently a couple of times which I should have taken as a warning, but the fatal mistake probably was me advising my wife to turn the car off and back on again, possibly if she had left the engine running then we might have got the dial moved... -------------------------------------------------------------------
D4 '15 (64) Se Tech Indus Silver
Tesla Model Y LR (22)
Audi TT Roadster 225 (52)
Tesla Model 3 LR (70) (gone)
Porsche Boxster '96 2.5 5spd project (P)
Mini R52 S (54)
BMW 330e eDrive MSport '16 (gone)
D3 '07 (56) XS TDV6 Buckingham Blue (gone)
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| 29th Apr 2021 2:50 pm |
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hgrimmett
Member Since: 11 Oct 2009
Location: Bledlow
Posts: 901
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RAC have sent the wrong lorry, 5 hours and waiting... -------------------------------------------------------------------
D4 '15 (64) Se Tech Indus Silver
Tesla Model Y LR (22)
Audi TT Roadster 225 (52)
Tesla Model 3 LR (70) (gone)
Porsche Boxster '96 2.5 5spd project (P)
Mini R52 S (54)
BMW 330e eDrive MSport '16 (gone)
D3 '07 (56) XS TDV6 Buckingham Blue (gone)
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| 29th Apr 2021 3:42 pm |
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fat bloke
Member Since: 07 Aug 2006
Location: OXFORD
Posts: 1257
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Yep same fault on mine ,replaced the rotary dial indicator as known fault and something else in gearbox all covered on warranty hope yours is?.
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| 29th Apr 2021 8:34 pm |
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hgrimmett
Member Since: 11 Oct 2009
Location: Bledlow
Posts: 901
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So our car was recovered to the local indy who charged the battery, cleared all the faults (which I thought I'd done with my IDTool but clearly not thoroughly enough) and it started working again. He recommended replacing the battery as it was original and the S/S had stopped working 2 years ago. So far all good... The WD cover letter has stayed in the filing cabinet....
The service from RAC was genuinely awful, they fobbed us off all afternoon. Eventually, 8 hours after the initial request, a low loader turned up. After I'd managed to stop him dragging the car sideways across the car park, I commiserated with him on what an awful day he'd appeared to have had trying to find us, he said he'd just started his shift half an hour before and we were his first job -------------------------------------------------------------------
D4 '15 (64) Se Tech Indus Silver
Tesla Model Y LR (22)
Audi TT Roadster 225 (52)
Tesla Model 3 LR (70) (gone)
Porsche Boxster '96 2.5 5spd project (P)
Mini R52 S (54)
BMW 330e eDrive MSport '16 (gone)
D3 '07 (56) XS TDV6 Buckingham Blue (gone)
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| 11th May 2021 7:07 pm |
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DaveJLBI
Member Since: 07 Mar 2014
Location: Clare
Posts: 682
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Still reckon a replacement should be on the horizon....
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| 12th May 2021 8:44 am |
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mrEb
Member Since: 05 Nov 2019
Location: Doncaster
Posts: 32
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I agree. Ive just replaced mine. I have stripped the old unit and made it so that the interlock can be operated manually by pulling a wire and disengaging the locking mechanism. As it is a plug and play item i will keep it in the car in case the replacement fails.
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| 15th May 2021 11:55 am |
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