This is not a truck to get for your wife.
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This is not a truck to get for your wife.
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.
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.
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I thought the tranny had to be in neutral first, then shift the t-case into neutral?
Last edited by 'BamaBoy; 05-16-2011 at 11:26 PM.
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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.
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.