KARYN

Thanks to everyone who gave good advise, yes i do have a sense of humour and good out at that, but when you are driving a car that keeps knocking itself out of gear on a motorway and you are carryning your kids in it surley you can see i was after advise and not to get the rip taken. The dealer has now sorted the fault, apprently the tow bar has to be configured to the car and this is something only LR can do, so why do they sell tow bars to the public without fitting and without advising they need to be configured?, this is a point i made to the LR dealer who has taken it onboard and now advise's everyone, if they just buy the tow bar without it being fitted by them they must have it configured after. Once again thanks to everyone for your help and advise and to those who just love to make new memebers feel really small well done I hope you are all proud of yourselves.

the expert fitter was a land rover dealer, and the smart arse comments from people are not helpfull, i thought this forum was to gain advise from people not to take the p**s The LR dealer has advise he has now configured the car to the tow bar at no cost to us as it was covered by the warranty. If that doesn't work then he doesn't know what to do, it could be anything, and they have never seen this before. Lets see if all is ok this weekend. Thanks to everyone for the positive comments and advise, and to the rest grow up.

Thanks for all the advise, we have it back in at a main dealer, who advised it could be something to do with the towing ECU, not realising there is a caravan hooked up, i thought this a bit strange because it is fine for the first 30 mile or so, the suggestion of the gearbox over heating sounds more like the problem. Lets hope it is sorted soon as i don't want to be the one on the motorway holding you lot up. Thanks again, I'll let you know the outcome .

Please please please can someone help, we have a 05 Discovery TDV6 HSE Auto it is fab, however i have just bought a twin wheel caravan which i was told the disco would have no trouble at all towing in fact the land rover dealers said the car would no even know it was attached ***WRONG** the car does know it attached, because when we drive for approx 10miles it decides to throw a proper wobbler. The first fault shows 'hill decent not functioning' this comes on when we go up hill !!, then the park brake lights up amber, then the cruise control will not stay on and it keeps jumping out of gear, the rev counter looks like a wind screen wiper because it is going up and down like mad. We have had it back to the dealership and they have re-loaded the software and changed a bit of cable but it still does the same thing, this is not only embaressing but dangerous as well because we dont know when it's going to happen and it could and has happended when we have overtaken, the car goes out of gear into netural and we just cannot get past the car we were trying to overtake. We have checked that the caravan is not too heavy and the tow bar was bought from land rover and fitted by an expert, so we just cannot understand why this happens, I am sure it is not something that every disco owner has to put up with or is it??? any advise will be great. The fault disapears when the caravan is unhitched. Thanks for listening