What did you do with your Range Rover today

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stustrong said:
Yeah it starts to accelerate in whatever gear it in on the torque then goes if i drop a gear or a few i can shift, if you do it at 40 45mph from coasting in 5th or 6th and click the kickdown it'll throw right back too 2nd and land at 4500rpm and mke all the nice noises and squat 🤣
Its very different to tow with as you feel it lock in or 'short shift' gears differently i expected it to be quite revvy towing, 2nd gear it holds a bit longer towing but the rest it still keeps it 2-3k revs,
My pal actually went from an ml27cdi to an ml500 just after i got this and is away to get an ml55amg so il be keen to see what thats like
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Agree about its gears, when cruising and floor it kick down couple of gears and off it goes, although mine has a bad wobble about 80mph, rear lower arm on nearside front has a split bush stuck wheel wobbles about a bit, going to get a set of arms for about £150 and refresh all front end.
 
rich28uk said:
Agree about its gears, when cruising and floor it kick down couple of gears and off it goes, although mine has a bad wobble about 80mph, rear lower arm on nearside front has a split bush stuck wheel wobbles about a bit, going to get a set of arms for about £150 and refresh all front end.
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Double check wheel balance as well mate, mine was really shaky at motorway speeds but all 4 balanced and its much better. Still need the wheels truing up though. Needs rear hub bushes for next mot as well
 
rich28uk said:
Agree about its gears, when cruising and floor it kick down couple of gears and off it goes, although mine has a bad wobble about 80mph, rear lower arm on nearside front has a split bush stuck wheel wobbles about a bit, going to get a set of arms for about £150 and refresh all front end.
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Have you found if you do a full throttle pull but not kickdown for a few seconds in gear then coast it will actually hold that gear like a manual until you decide if your accelerating or breaking again? I thought it was broken but its the way its programed that took a little getting use too after the td6 with the 5speed
 
rich28uk said:
Agree about its gears, when cruising and floor it kick down couple of gears and off it goes, although mine has a bad wobble about 80mph, rear lower arm on nearside front has a split bush stuck wheel wobbles about a bit, going to get a set of arms for about £150 and refresh all front end.
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Remember and bolt them tight with the motor on the floor or hub jacked upto road height position
 
stustrong said:
Have you found if you do a full throttle pull but not kickdown for a few seconds in gear then coast it will actually hold that gear like a manual until you decide if your accelerating or breaking again? I thought it was broken but its the way its programed that took a little getting use too after the td6 with the 5speed
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Yep mine does that, like manual engine breaking very handy 😀
 
Its here at last 😍
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stustrong said:
Have you found if you do a full throttle pull but not kickdown for a few seconds in gear then coast it will actually hold that gear like a manual until you decide if your accelerating or breaking again? I thought it was broken but its the way its programed that took a little getting use too after the td6 with the 5speed
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Can’t say iv noticed, may give that a try, definitely behaves differently to the gm5 speed in the td6s, same zf6 as in my old x5 but does have different programming as it drives different.
Mechanic who’s just done my tyres said how nice them engines sound even just Sat idling.

Spoke to him about the violent viberation, his guess is possibly front prob, possibly lost a weight, he’s just had it on a Nissan navara, but he was going to check balance on the old wheels but we were talking so he got side tracked, but at least 1 weight was missing from passenger side front which is where it feels to shake from.
Out of interest would warped or in some way knackered brake discs cause a viberation, not when braking though? He did have a look at the suspension arm and said even through it has more play than it should it shouldn’t cause what I’m describing.
 
1988smithy said:
Double check wheel balance as well mate, mine was really shaky at motorway speeds but all 4 balanced and its much better. Still need the wheels truing up though. Needs rear hub bushes for next mot as well
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Rear hub bushes arnt bad, get a push pull tool, one with the tubes etc and selection of threaded bar, I borrowed one from mechanic and did both over a weekend, both sides upper and lower, could have cracked on and done all in 1 day. With that tool there really not hard.
 
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brianp38dse said:
We went passed on the main road i did think about it but it was getting late and i needed some dinner :(
i gave it full monty up the Ammersham hill toward Beconsfield a brick that size should not go up there that fast:eek:
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I bet the trip computer doesn't go low enough to show consumption up that hill WOT. It'd probably need a negative sign for the Rangie.
 
Grrrrrr said:
I bet the trip computer doesn't go low enough to show consumption up that hill WOT. It'd probably need a negative sign for the Rangie.
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Perhaps the display could change to "gallons per mile" :rolleyes: Obviously owners of these oversize, overweight, overcomplicated overpowered gas guzzlers are not believers in man made climate change:rolleyes::rolleyes:
 
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