mcsimmo wrote:

Lets be glad you dont have to do it wearing a kilt, as I once had to do in my Freelander.

Boxbrownie wrote:

I would guess I will be the only one to cheer the demise of the Auto Gear “Knob” and cheer the return of a real Lever.

Hated the way you need to look at the gear knob when manoeuvring in tight spaces/car parks etc, I find a lever which stops at each end of normal travel much better.

I know some people would say “you get used to it” but the same with spongy brakes, you get used to them

I have the rotary "gearknob" and find it much easier to use than a traditional lever. From park, press brake and turn all the way clockwise without pushing it down and you are in drive. From drive press brake ,turn 2 clicks anti clockwise and your in reverse. From any gear switch engine off and knob goes to park automatically. No need to look at it which I always used to do with a normal gear lever!

I shall relay your last sentence to my brother, who continually thinks that he has put it in park, only to find his creeping back towards the garage door as its not in P but in R instead. Personally, I think that he is going senile, but as I have a proper gearshift on mine, what would I know about it? MY13 HSE Lux.......faultless since new.

I've got a block of wood which the front wheel stops up against & a strip on the floor about 15mm high just behind the tyre so the car sits in this position & can't roll back. One less time to use the handbrake everytime I park the car in the garage. Transmission is in park. Procrastination, mankind's greatest labour saving device!

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I've never used the parking brake in the 7 years that I've owned the vehicle. Was amazed 2 years ago at service time when I was told that my rear pads needed replacing....I'm still on factory fronts at 60k! MY13 HSE Lux.......faultless since new.

With the rotary type gear knob when it goes into park it automatically applies the handbrake at the same time!

I like my knob

All the way left for park, all the way right for forward. Dead easy, and it goes into park automatically when you switch off. Glad I've got the mk 1. 2019 Discovery Sport Landmark in Corris Grey
2014 FL2 XS TD4 Manual - Gone at 93k miles - great car.

I like my knob

All the way left for park, all the way right for forward. Dead easy, and it goes into park automatically when you switch off. Glad I've got the mk 1. 2019 Discovery Sport Landmark in Corris Grey
2014 FL2 XS TD4 Manual - Gone at 93k miles - great car.

Like New York Bibendum likes his knob so much he named it twice

More to the point - have LR sorted the oil dilution problem on the new DS ??? MY 09 GS manual in Lago Grey, Wood Co arm rest and side bumper strips - now sold.

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I speced up the new DS on the landrover website to roughly what I have on my metropolis, it came to £52,700 . Seriously who is going to spend that on a wee car . You can get a Volvo XC90 cheaper. Land Rover certainly know how to kill the fatted cow. Do it now ! Your a long time dead !!

Don’t worry when they all go back to a lever you’ll all love that after a while again  Regards

David

Lovely i6 has now gone, but not me......

Please let me know if anything in my post offends you, as I may wish to offend you again......

very much a marmite issue.

After having to rebuild an auto gearbox after the selector cables stretched and the operator managed to find park at speed I have always been wary of the old fashioned lever arrangement. But having said that I did like the option on the FL1 to select 1st or 2nd and the nanny electronics couldn't override your decisions.

So for me the fact that the rotary knob is electronic
That you cannot force the box into 2nd and keep it there (once had to drive FL1 in 2nd for several hours on rocky ground), is unfortunate.
Maybe a compromise, electronic lever that mimics the old fashioned gated lever. Tangiers Orange - gone, missing her
Replaced by Ewok what a mistake - now a happy Disco Sport owner

tenet wrote:

Like New York Bibendum likes his knob so much he named it twice

More to the point - have LR sorted the oil dilution problem on the new DS ???

On the latter point, I dunno. All seems well with mine after 8,000 miles in 5 months, it is still saying I have 13k miles to go to the next service. 2019 Discovery Sport Landmark in Corris Grey
2014 FL2 XS TD4 Manual - Gone at 93k miles - great car.

Bibendum wrote:

tenet wrote:

Like New York Bibendum likes his knob so much he named it twice

More to the point - have LR sorted the oil dilution problem on the new DS ???

On the latter point, I dunno. All seems well with mine after 8,000 miles in 5 months, it is still saying I have 13k miles to go to the next service.

Mines just had a dealer service, so too early to tell if the car asks for an early service ...... but
I have changed the oil and filter every 10k, I was always going to.

75% of my journeys are on motorways and the car was asking for an oil change around 11k - so the wrong type of driving obviously. Never a design fault, always blame the operator.

The give away will be in about 8k when I am to change the oil again myself, if the oil level has gone up (approx. 6mm last time) then I know the oil dilution is still happening, if the car now says that the oil doesn't need changing then Southam is right and LR have done a software patch that just allows the oil to be even more diluted before a warning is given. Tangiers Orange - gone, missing her
Replaced by Ewok what a mistake - now a happy Disco Sport owner