Set of on holiday this morning with caravan in tow. traveled 55 miles BANG. No drive & horrid noises coming from gearbox even when out of gear Had to get car & caravan recovered looks like a new gearbox required holiday cancelled for now . Any advice for gearbox repairs in Central Scotland ." Just turned 81000 2006 model

Presumably your TD6 has had the front propshaft/differential upgrade?

Phil

Thanks for quick reply but have checked prop shafts when in gear they are not turning & noise is present when out of gear

You have a pm

Thank you for advice every one told me same place booked in for tomorrow thank you

RRPhil wrote:

Presumably your TD6 has had the front propshaft/differential upgrade?

Phil

Garage phoned today gearbox & transfer box required

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Collecting car on Monday refurbished gearbox , torque converter & transfer box all fitted . If any money left will carry on with holiday

Got car back Monday From Mackie. Transmitions. In glasgow Gearbox / transfer box / torque converter / oil cooler al replaced feels like a new car very smooth gear change . First class service. From this company + 3year warranty on parts . Holiday starts tomorrow .

Sorry to hear it was a costly repair but glad you are on the move again !! MY 2010 5.0 SC Galway green and sand interior!!
Have the Faultmate MSV2 Extreme to be tinkering with the settings etc. !!

Hi.
Just had exactly the same problem as Swiftman

Pull out from a junction, big bang/thud and no drive.
Got recovered to a Land Rover service centre, thinking it was the faulty front propshaft/differential only to be told its already had the upgrade to the new one.

The spline gear between the gear box and transfer box has worn. As Land Rover don’t sell the shaft separately I’ve been told a new gear box and transfer box are needed for a total of £6000 fitted

My main question is with the weak diff being replace for the new type has this moved the problem to a different area ie the output shaft of the gear box which causes the spline gears to wear?

My car is a MY04 td6 with 145k on the clock.

I’ve heard of that happening on the 6 speeds (when the spline isn’t greased with the special anti-seize paste) but never before on a 5-speed.

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Thanks Phil but its (hopefully) getting sorted.

The garage has sent the gear box off somewhere to get a new shaft put in and should take 7 - 10 days. They have said that Land Rover wont guarantee this fix but hopefully it should only be £2000ish.

I was mainly curious what others thought of this now being a weak point?

Grant

how does one find out if it has had the upgrade? was this a recall done by land rover?

I've been told the upgrade (was never officially a recall) was stopped last year.

If you do a search on here I'm sure I've seen pics of the old and new diff but I'm sure if you take your car to a land rover dealer they would be able to check as well.
Another option is to ring a dealer and give your vin to them as it should have been recorded if the upgrade was done.

Grant