Member Since: 30 May 2011
Location: Adelaide
Posts: 120
Gearbox Fault - Terrain System Disabled
OK, I have just had my first off-road trip. I've had the car 6 months (secondhand 2.7 10MY) and it's done 38000km's
The drive was only 25km, but did do some steep climbs and descents in 30C temps. Averaged 9km/hour.
Around 18km in we went down a very steep rocky slope, around 60m long, stoped at the bottom to take some photo's - engine left running for around 10minutes. Then headed back off. When I next change from mud to rok-climb I got a gearbox warning and terrain system disabled itself. At the next oppertunity I stopped the car and switched the enging off, restarted and no errors.
It happend again about 10 minutes later. Restarted the engine and the fault cleared. No issues on the way back home (42km).
Was it just a glitch in the system, or something else need investigating
ThanksDiscovery 4 2.7 SE
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18th Feb 2012 8:10 am
MadJax
Member Since: 30 May 2011
Location: Adelaide
Posts: 120
Same fault happend again this weekend. This time it was a cool 21C, so will get it looked at during it's next service.
Hope it can be fixed as it would not change down from 4th. Not good when you are heading down a hill Discovery 4 2.7 SE
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30th Apr 2012 6:24 am
Morgis
Member Since: 18 Feb 2012
Location: Kristiansand
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very often, a calibration of the suspension, steering and roll-sensors can fix many problems. - My 2006 D3 HSE PP
Member Since: 01 Dec 2011
Location: Sydney, NSW
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Has this happen too but I assumed it was because I was asking too much from the system at the time. It happened on a reasonably steep hill in low range rock crawl (with down hill descent turned off manually) when the gearbox was hunting between gears. To stop it hunting gears I put it in command shift but then found it wouldn't shift down and was 'stuck' in 4L. The revs were dropping then the car showed gear box error, turned off "special programs". I stopped, put the gearbox back in auto and kept going. Eventually turned the engine off, started again and the warning disappeared. I haven't seen it again since.
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29th Aug 2012 7:49 am
Calis
Member Since: 10 Sep 2012
Location: Sydney
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jonesy63 wrote:
Probably the brake switch - a common fault.
Hey jonesy can you explain what do you mean by brake switch? ta mate.
30th Oct 2012 3:48 am
markate
Member Since: 17 Sep 2011
Location: England
Posts: 704
Experienced it in an RR Sport at the weekend after going through some rather deep water. Clerared it by switching everything off and then restarting. Usually happens if the systems in the vehicle have become overloaded/hot/wet for any reason and a restart usual clears the fault.
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