This vehicle takes a lot of wife-proofing. So here's the setup:

The car is in the garage and my son, being the helpful guy that he is, turned the interior light on at some point in time. It was fine because my wife was driving the truck daily, but then the battery died after my wife stayed at the house for a day.

She calls the roadside assistance and the gent dutifully arrives to jump start the truck, however it is parked hood-first in the garage. So it needs to be towed out (mind you all I'm still in Korea at this time) and the service guy can't find the release switch to put it into neutral. He searched the manual for a solution (but not hard enough, as I pointed out to my wife after telling this story), and did not find the part that said to put the T-case into neutral (have to give him credit, it is alot of letters for our man-sized attention span).

So the solution was to DRAG THE ROVER OUT OF THE GARAGE WITH A TOW CABLE. My wife said she didn't think it left marks and I was like, well **** what about the tires to the brakes to the t-case to the x-mission and everything in between? Hilarious.

 

I know where you are comming from..My wife would rather walk than get in a LR... Well, one that most of us drive... She would have no problem in a brand new one with towing service and warranty....

Too funny....Chris

 

ouch.... but too funny.... luckily my wife is italian ... my disco is way to big for her to even attempt to drive.. not in her driving mentality...WHEW!

 

LOL. Always fun with things like this. I just can't believe the tow truck people didn't have a jumper box to use instead of cables!

 

or a set of dollies to pop under the tires and push it out.

 

Why didn't he put the truck in neutral, I know you should put the transfer case on neural when towing distances, but rolling it out the garage? Who are they getting to drive tow trucks these days?

 

With battery dead you can't shift.

I recommend to everyone remove the damn solenoid, it's a pos

 

Well, I don't know what the other Discos are like, but on the '03 and '04 you can shift the t-case into neutral when the xmission is in park; that allows the truck to be towed.

 

I thought the tranny had to be in neutral first, then shift the t-case into neutral?

 

Lol the independent rover mechanic that I some times take my truck to said he got a Disco once where the engine exploded because the woman driving it saw the needle going into the red and kept driving.

Back when my head gasket was leaking I could only drive the truck at like 35 mph, go any higher and the thing would over heat.