K9F wrote:

Dullbird,

It must surely depend on a case by case basis and whether you regard 'your glass to be half full' or 'your glass to be half empty' mine is definately half full - 21,000 miles no problems and not about to get it stripped down and rebuilt just in case I may have a problem. Will certainly not lose any sleep either way! Sympathise with those that do though!

mate of course it goes on a case by case basis.....however if you have obvious things with your car that make you think "should it be like that" then that means if you are used to driving that particular vehicle it probably shouldn't be....if you wish to ignore those signs then that's your prerogative..(i'm not saying you have just talking in general)

However there are some people out that that wish to have there vehicle fixed. my gearbox has just gone back in after that and the transfer case had been pulled...the gearbox is now running like a dream. no clunking changes are smooth and there is no whine from the box like I had a super charger fitted. I guess the difference between say someone like me and possibly someone like you is you may not want your vehicle stripped down...but me I don't want to be overhauling gearboxes when it drops out of warranty in 6 months time its got nothing to do with a half empty glass.

I have a great example hear for you...

when some of us were having issues there was one fella that every time we say something his first reply was "nothing wrong with my car and i have done this this and this" and would often argue our faults because his was faultless (or at least thats very much how it seemed) funnily enough his nothing wrong with my car just had a new rear diff, new gearbox, new transfer case and new hubs.... and his glass was always half full

i think a big difference between a lot of things is the mileage and where it is serviced, how much the faults bother you and whether you think it might be something major later on. I can honestly say even though I love my car I have BIG BIG concerns when this car comes out of warranty...and presently trying to seek an extension YOU KNOW REHAB IS FOR QUITTERS!!!!

Forest of Dean 90 wrote:

Over two Weeks now and still No Gearbox and not likely to be one for another Week, according to LR Customer Service and even then thats a outside bet...

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Glynparry25 wrote:

No problems wth mine

BigWheels wrote:

Clutch is strong but sweet. Pumas need another gear between 1st & 2nd for high box use.

No thank you. Would mean I would have to change gear 3 times in 5 seconds compared to twice. I would say that 1st needs to be a little longer as it is too much of a crawler gear for pulling off in normal conditions.

Glyn

Agree. I gunned it out of a junction last night and the car suddenly stopped accelerating, I grabbed 2nd and it carried on accelerating. It was a splait second thing, so assume I must have hit the rev-limiter, but the engine noise didn't sound like 4000+rpm in a diesel and and a corner-of-the-eye rtev counter shot gave me the impression I had only hit 3000rpm.

Pulling off involves a fair bit of foot work. Small revs on, clutch out, more rev's, dip clutchfractionally before acclerator, grab 2nd, clutch out, revs back on. But we'd be moaning about the Defender strugglingwith trailers and when loaded if we'd got a tall 1st gear!