Folks,

I have a serious problem with my auto gear box and therefore looking to find a really good non main dealer repair shop quickly (Mrs Tornado34 wants her car fixed!!)

It is out of warranty and appears quite major (will select D but no drive whatsoever . ouch!).

I need to find a garage or someone with a good LR knowledge (preferably ex-LR) who comes highly recommended at a reasonable cost.

Would be best around M25, but could be as far north as Nottingham at a push (although I have to flat-bed it there, so M25 best).

Can anyone help me out?

Cheers

PM on it's way but you could try Lougran's of Towcester (10 mins from J15a of the M1)

Stupid question, but have you checked the levels in your autobox? I had an old Rover V8 which used to lose all gears periodically and it was generally down to low fluids.

If you need to top up, then manually run the selector through the gears holding it in each gear for 10-15 seconds as you go through the box... both down and up... as this will allow the fluid to circulate through the various bits of the autobox and bleed out any trapped air.

If it's this, you should now have a full set of gears...

Hope this helps

PS - speak to Mick at Loughran's - 01327 359167


Rob

Unfortunately I'm away on business right now and Mrs Tornado34 isn't uuurrmmmn...knowing even where to put diesel in so not much point asking her

Would a low transmission fluid level cause this? so much so that there is no drive at all? If this is the problem, is all usually ok when it's topped up or might it have destroyed something as a result?

Can you hear the panic in my questions (£££££'s )

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An autobox works by transmission fluid being forced along certain routes which then makes the selectors function... hence the fact that low fluid will lead to a total loss of drive and my thoughts on same...

Where in or around the M25 is the vehicle?

Hunters of Guildford are a main dealer but are fairly switched on (and honest...)

Not sure about the F2 but I think it is a fairly easy job for a competent garage!

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Guava are near Guildford too. Phil

Thanks for the suggestions so far

Before I call around these guys, I want to take a look at the transmission fluid level myself, is there an easy way to check and top up the transmission fluid? Is it a 'side of the road' thing or is it much more complex than that?

Anyone?

ps, The car is parked up in Canvey Island at the moment.

tornado34 wrote:

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Would a low transmission fluid level cause this? so much so that there is no drive at all? If this is the problem, is all usually ok when it's topped up or might it have destroyed something as a result?

(£££££'s )

tornado34 wrote:

is there an easy way to check and top up the transmission fluid? Is it a 'side of the road' thing or is it much more complex than that?

The second one.
If you still insist, it's a "crawl below the car" thing.
If you're still not scared, here is the procedure.

Thanks alex_pescaru.

Appears pretty straight forward, I'm cool with this level of maintainence. I might give this a try before moving to phase two!!

Just one thing, anyone know how to acurately measure 60 degrees fluid temp without a LR supercomputer?!?!

Maybe I could use a thermometer in the level check plug hole?

Thanks again alex_pescaru, this is perfect and hopefully cheap fix.

If it's low and topping it up sorts it then the next step is to establish what has caused it to be low. If the vehicle is used under load considerably then it could be normal consumption, however if not then it's probably a union or pipe failure.

Not the sort of job you'd want to do on a newly laid block paved driveway!

Good luck!

James

Fair point James.

My thoughs are that I will firstly try to get it moving and then get in booked in somewhere for a complete check up / service (which is now due anyway).

Fixing just the symptom is usually a bad and costly long term solution.

tornado34 wrote:

Just one thing, anyone know how to acurately measure 60 degrees fluid temp without a LR supercomputer?!?!

Lookers Park Royal wrote:

If the vehicle is used under load considerably then it could be normal consumption