I live in the mountains and have to a 20min downhill drive when I want to go to the flatlands. I would love to coast all the way and not have to ride my brakes the whole way down as there are a bunch of turns and the speed varies from 25-50 mph. Would be better to use sport mode and put it in 2nd gear or Lo Range or is either ok? I'm not that familiar with the Lo Range so pardon my ignorance.
Thank for reading!

 

Sport Mode.

 

Thanks!

 

I didn't elaborate, but basically Lo-Range is too low for your use case. I wouldn't want to go any faster than 25mph in 4-Lo and that's pushing it. Sport Mode by itself will help but Command Shift is your Huckleberry.

 

Thanks for elaborating, will be using Command Shift to go down the hill. It's what I use on my other car, but the LR3 has so many features thought maybe this could be an option.

Actually like a bonehead this morning I drove down in Lo-Range, this post was after the fact. Do you know what problems could occur from driving too fast in Lo? I didn't really notice any issues, wondering if there is anything I should look out for? I was basically just coasting down, didn't really use the gas if this makes any difference.

Thanks again.

 

You can operate low range up to 40mph safely, probably even 45mph. Its really the engine you are putting stress on, not the transfer box. Lets put it this way, you can actually shift from low to high while moving up to 37mph, after that it will display on the cluster that you need to reduce speed for range change. So that kinda tells you 37mph is certainly fine. With that said, I would probably not make a huge habit of doing it.

 

Ha no I will not be doing that again. I've only had my LR3 for a few months and love it. Thanks again for educating on the Lo-range and easing my mind, very much appreciate your help.

 

Is it really 37? It always felt like it was less than that, but yeah in general for me above 25 and it just doesn't feel good.

 

Yeah, its 37mph. Unless you have a manual trans, then its much less..... from the tech manual:


On a side note, I am still shocked by how many modern vehicles need to come to a full stop to change form high too low. I know Rover pioneered this rolling high/low change but you think everyone would have caught on by now. Kinda fun when wheeling with other folk, I try to stay out front so I dont get stuck behind those that have to stop to change.