Completely Stumped. Reverse fine, no forward drive.

It'll sit in idle and it'll reverse. It'll also go forward slightly but if you accelerate at all it stalls, this happens in D, 1,2 or 3. It was taking ages to start and I assumed it was just the fuel pump. Cleaned that and changed the fuel filter still the same!

It's at the garage now and they seem to have run out of ideas. It looks like the same problem as this post...

http://www.landyzone.co.uk/lz/f16/94-discovery-auto-no-forward-drive-only-reverse-134908.html

Any help very much appreciated!

drain some oil out ,if its black a clutch pack is burnt

Thanks jamesmartin, I'll give that a shot. Wouldn't there be a clutch smell though? Also, that sounds like a gradual problem that would worsen over time rather than one that would leave me stranded.

no linings are only paper thin, you often dont notice till it goes ,its only one of 7 clutch packs, the first one you come to just behind bell housing and pump

The mechanic has checked the oil and says it's fine.
I told him about the clutch pack but he's convinced it's the ECU. It's not responding (by giving alerts) no matter how much you antagonise it! Do you think it could be an ECU issue? Seems unlikely to me.

do you mean that the M or S lights are not coming on when you select manual or sport mode? ...if it's so, unplug the ECU and turn ignition on...with ECU unplugged the M & S lights must be on...if not it means that something happened and the BCU went out of auto gerabox setting and it's set on manual... rarely but it used to do those kind of tricks

you better do somehow and hook it to a tester

no mechanic can give a 100% certain verdict on ECU failure without using a tester or swap with a known good ECU imho, 99% of ECU failures would trigger the M & S warnings, or if it's such a critical failure to not give you warnings imo it would not move at all ...if no warning lights but you have reverse it means that it's a mechanical problem generated by something which is not covered by selfdiagnostics, and the clutch packs are not... IMO listen to jamesmartin or find a mechanic who knows how a ZF autobox works

by the way, depends on how much are you up to spend or how hard is for you to get to diagnostics, as a not very big investment there is a multivehicle tester which covers well enough the D2 transmission and other systems, this one: http://www.obdii.co.uk/car-diagnost...g-vs08-cdp-plus-for-cars-trucks-2013-1version , see the coverage here(scroll to page 579 -581): http://www.obd2be.com/download/autocom-cdp-pro-support-car-list.pdf , maybe it would be cheaper than pay for incompetent mechanics...your choice

The original garage gave up so I had it delivered to a new landrover specialist in battersea. Like the tiger says, they're great! RR landrover is their name.

It was a faulty connection on the ECU from an oil leak. They cleaned it all up and it works now. They did mention that I should change the whole engine loom soon too though.

Thanks for all your help.