Hi All,
New to the site and Land rover and would like to know if any other FL2 owner has suffered with there gearbox loosing 2nd and reverse gears? I picked up our FL2 hse on a 07 plate with 24k on the clock this saturday morning and set off on a 150 mile trip up north. Every thing was perfect going up the A1 untill we stoped in trafic, then when pulling away and trying to change from 1st to 2nd nothing happened. the gear stick was very light and never engaged anything so changed to 3rd and got moving. We then pulled over at the next service stop and managed to get 2nd changing down and when stoped in the car park it started to engage again. I then decided to carry on our travels but that didnt last long as we could not find reverse to get out of the car parking space! Phoned the dealer who said to ring the recovery firm and they would return us and the car to the dealers who would then give us a temp car. We were given a disco3 se and prommised that they would do erery thing possible to compensate us for this inconvenience.
I will let you know what the prob was and what/how we are compensated

I almost had the same issue. I could get 2nd and reverse but they would only just engage and in some cases I had to hold the lever to stop it jumping out of gear. The dealer sorted it and told me that a gear select cable had jumped out of a clip - simple fix. So hopefully it's not as serious as a gearbox issue!

Same experience, gear selector cable(s) not refitted properly during the heater mod. Should take no more than about half an hour to get it fixed assuming nothing more serious. Annoying though.

Interesting. I had the issue not long after the heater mod, but it happened immediately after getting a towbar fitted
They had confusion with the rear parking sensors and were repeatedly selecting reverse to test it
Doing that must have mis-aligned a cable??

Hi,

With regard to heater mod & gear selection problems, when i had mine done, they showed me what they had to remove to get it replaced, full centre console out etc bottom part of dash.

So when they build it back up they have to check the gear selector/handbrake adjustment otherwise you could end up with the problems you have had.

Was suprised at how much they had to do to replace the heater & when they told me they only get 1 hour from landrover to do job. So if dealers in hurry things might not be checked properly. I think therefore I am

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