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About John Robison
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I own J E Robison Service in Springfield, MA. We are Bosch Car Service for Land Rover, BMW, Mercedes, and other European lines. I can answer most questions about Land Rover service or repair. I'm known as a car enthusiast, machine aficianado, photographer, writer, and speaker. I've been around Land Rovers and British cars most of my life. Visit me at my car business, www.robisonservice.com or my author website, www.johnrobison.com. Check out my autism and writing blog at jerobison.blogspot.com or my photos on www.pbase.com/robisonphoto John Elder Robison

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I have been a Land Rover service manager since Land Rover returned to North America in 1987. My company is a four-star Bosch Car Service facility, known nationwide for Land Rover service, overhaul, customization, and restoration. We're a dealer and service agent for APCO, backer of the Land Rover Assured and Certified dealer service contracts and Easycare independent service contracts. In addition to Land Rover our company services BMW, Jaguar, Mercedes-Benz, Rolls_Royce, and Bentley motorcars. We have factory-plus-level service capability for all makes. Visit my company online at www.robisonservice.com > service > land rover Also visit my blog at robisonservice.blogspot.com

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In the Land Rover world, my writing can be found in Land Rover Lifestyle, Land Rover Monthly, The Rover News, The Rover Log, The Rover Reference. In the wider publishing world, my work is published by 20 publishers in over 50 countries. Look Me in the Eye is a New York Times bestseller and an international bestseller.

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I am ASE certified, Bosch Trained, and trained by Omnitec/T4 and Autologic on their Land Rover test systems.

 
   

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Land Rover Repair - Range Rover 2003 HSE


Expert: John Robison - 6/30/2009

Question
I've owned the car since new, it has 106000km on the clock and runs beautifully.  Recently the transmission started playing up by not going higher than 3rd gear.  This has now happened 3 times over the past 3 months.  It is remedied by stopping and switching the car off so I'm guessing it's an electonic fault.  Have you heard of this and is this something I should be worried about?

Answer
That sounds like a failure within the gearbox.  It's possible it's a control problem but more likely it is inside the transmission.  If you can find a shop with a T4 or Autologic system they may be able to pinpoint it; maybe not.  Those ZF boxes are tricky to work on and beyond the skill of most transmission shops. Here in the USA there are a few ZF authorized rebuilders.  If your truck were here I'd pull the transmission and send it to one of them for overhaul.  Hopefully ZF has a service network where you are too.  Removal and refit of the gearbox is pretty easy; it's just heavy work.


Best of luck with it

John Elder Robison

check my car blog at http://robisonservice.blogspot.com

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