Transmission Fault Limited Gears Available

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Tang00	Tang00 posted 9 Years Ago Topic Details
Group: G4 Member Posts: 4, Visits: 48	Hello, Ref: Disco 3 G4 - 08 A bit of a shock today..... the G4 had to be taken into the garage last week, as we had black smoke and acceleration problems, with the message 'Transmission Fault Limited Gears Available' on the console, this was while the wife was driving back from the beach with the kids. This morning my wife had a call from the garage .... asking her to sit down!! She knew there was bad news coming.... They've had a look at the car and they can honestly say they has never ever seen anything like this in a Land Rover before!! And yes it's expensive..... Basically they changed an EGR valve in May this year. That is ok but the other one has failed. What has happened is that this has caused a build up of carbon which has got very hot and it has burst holes through and melted the two plastic cam covers and the throttle body cover. If my wife had driven a longer distance it might have caught fire. The garage say that they can repair and replace the parts and test. However, they can't say for sure that it won't happen again. He said its so rare. So we need two new cam covers, the EGR valve and not sure about the throttle cover. The cam covers are £1k each so he said we are looking at £2500-£2800 repair bill. I would be interested to hear if anyone has heard of or experienced this before? Cheers Andy
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Tang00 - 9 Years Ago

Sorry to hear about your issues, I'd be getting a 2nd opinion to be...

cds - 9 Years Ago

I would surest you post this on the disco3 website if you haven't...

camelrock - 9 Years Ago

Hello, Thanks for your thoughts and comments, I am away from home at...

Tang00 - 9 Years Ago

I think I would just get them blanked off. I know this put the EML on...

camelrock - 9 Years Ago

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