lightning

lightning

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I have a Defender TD5 and was told by the Land Rover dealer that "it has anti-stall and you can get to 30mph without touching the accelerator pedal....." Well mine will not. Sure you can pull away on tickover in first (high range) and second is OK. In third it struggles and fourth/fifth the Defender shunts badly, it cannot be good for it. I realise that there is little point in doing it but should it be able to roll along on tickover in the higher gears?
 
As far as I know anti-stall only works in low range which would explain it.

LR did a very impressive demonstration on an off-road day recently where he stopped half way down a pretty steep hill and then used anti-stall in reverse to reverse back up the hill.
 
Whoa whoa whoa!

The anti stall feature is intended to help you with hill starts - don't expect it to be working in third gear!

Cheers

Blippie
 
Yes I can see that, it was just that on the test drive the dealer made a big deal of the fact that you could supposedly pull away on tickover (high range) and go through the gears without touching the accelerator. Obviously there is no real point to it...and in fact if you are careful with the clutch any vehicle will do that.
 
He is talking nonsence, the TD5 has the tendancy to STOP dead if it is getting to slow, most diesels would throw in more diesel and keep going, not this baby.
 
Errr...sorry to offend you there mate but the dealer on the test drive made a point of it, and claimed that you are better off pulling away with no throttle until the clutch is up...
Of course I don't drive the Defender like that, although I did try it just the once, it was just a question/comment.
Hope that makes you feel better. By the way I'm posting this from Africa (on the borders of Mali and Algeria) where I'm on "holiday" in my 90 CSW. See you there soon?
 
Didn't offend me mate... what yer local stealer was trying to say was, your clutch will last longer if you don't slip it while pulling away. You don't need anti-stall for that and with the nice heavy rotational mass of land rover engines they're hard to stall unless you try dumping it.

Roaring off the line at max throttle trying to race young Studly McNonuts in his mums Corsa away from the lights isn't exactly what a Landy was built for - apart from that it'll probably lose and you'll look silly and make him feel like a hero. I guess 'anti-stall' is one of those gadgets they added to make people feel a bit better about choosing a defender over a BMW X5 or a VW Touareg - at least it's got some toys eh? Even if they are a bit pointless ;)
 
Can't say I disagree with you there.
In the last 24 hours I've done 400Km's half of it on sand "roads" and am now in a place called Gao, in Mali. I'd not be in any other vehicle, apart from maybe a 110 for the extra room. I've no aircon, no traction control, and no toys (unless you count electric windows). I had an X5 when they first came out but they have hollow aluminium suspension parts that can break in the kind of conditions I subjected my 90 to over the past few days.
I like to open all the windows and take in the scenery that I'm driving through, the sights and smells, heat, rain and dust.
I've never burnt out a clutch.
 
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