rickead2000
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Hi,
I think my WXYZ switch is about to die again.
I had a new one fitted to my '02 disco about 14 months ago. 6 Months after that it started playing up slightly again and would go into neutral but only stay there if I hold the stick in place. If I don't hold it then it would move a millimeter or so forward and rest on the stop between 'N' and 'R' and just be in no gear (i.e. no light on the shaft and nothing indicated on the LED display). To get it to stay in 'N' I have to hold the stick back against the stop between 'N' and 'D'.
As I never use neutral and although it showed no gear, it was actually in neutral, and I didn't bother doing anything about it.
However now its doing the same in Drive. I have to hold the stick with a slight "backwards" (towards to rear of the car) pressure to get it to hold in 'D'.
However this time when slips out of 'D' I still have power but it won't change gear from what its in -- getting rather dangerous when pulling off at junctions, it will just stay in 1st and rev and rev and rev until I notice its out and gently lean on the stick.
It's normally OK for the first 20 minutes of any journey and then will start flickering in and out of gear many times a second before it will just go out completely and require to be held for the rest of the journey.
I should point out the stick doesn't actually move about when it does this, it just needs the slightest of pressure to hold it against the stop between 'D' and '3'.
I'll be damned if I'm paying another £250 for a new switch only just a year after the old one. It's clearly just a bad contact somewhere -- can these things be serviced at all? Is there any easy fix? The old one went wrong really badly and kept putting the car into limp home mode, this doesn't, it's more of a major annoyance / danger thing.
I think my WXYZ switch is about to die again.
I had a new one fitted to my '02 disco about 14 months ago. 6 Months after that it started playing up slightly again and would go into neutral but only stay there if I hold the stick in place. If I don't hold it then it would move a millimeter or so forward and rest on the stop between 'N' and 'R' and just be in no gear (i.e. no light on the shaft and nothing indicated on the LED display). To get it to stay in 'N' I have to hold the stick back against the stop between 'N' and 'D'.
As I never use neutral and although it showed no gear, it was actually in neutral, and I didn't bother doing anything about it.
However now its doing the same in Drive. I have to hold the stick with a slight "backwards" (towards to rear of the car) pressure to get it to hold in 'D'.
However this time when slips out of 'D' I still have power but it won't change gear from what its in -- getting rather dangerous when pulling off at junctions, it will just stay in 1st and rev and rev and rev until I notice its out and gently lean on the stick.
It's normally OK for the first 20 minutes of any journey and then will start flickering in and out of gear many times a second before it will just go out completely and require to be held for the rest of the journey.
I should point out the stick doesn't actually move about when it does this, it just needs the slightest of pressure to hold it against the stop between 'D' and '3'.
I'll be damned if I'm paying another £250 for a new switch only just a year after the old one. It's clearly just a bad contact somewhere -- can these things be serviced at all? Is there any easy fix? The old one went wrong really badly and kept putting the car into limp home mode, this doesn't, it's more of a major annoyance / danger thing.
