The Dastardly Culprit Extracted

So I am leaving the grocery store parking lot. It’s been a hot day. The A\C was working hard. I’ve made a few short trips and I guess I overtaxed the battery as the car died. But the shifter didn’t go into it’s place. (Not long before I noticed the sides of the **** were no longer visible. Since the car was seemingly still working as it should; I didn’t feel overly concerned.) but now the shift wouldn’t go all the way down I couldn’t start the car not even with the neutral switch under the hood pulled! Because I didn’t worry about the side of the shifter ****, being stuck down inside the housing mechanism, now it became a problem. Or I knew it was very likely that somehow it was jamming the shifter **** from returning to its off position.

I had to have it towed to a repair shop. Unfortunately, they were so busy. They didn’t have time to do more than two check and charge the battery and plug in a scan tool, which said there was an issue with the transmission.

Well, I knew that because the shifter wouldn’t go down in place! I offered to pay him for the time he spent looking at it. He declined and even though I couldn’t take the car with me, I went back later when it was cooler I watched videos where people took the whole mechanism out; turned it upside down & used the screw (On the bottom) to manually raise the shift **** and then attempted whatever they thought they needed to do to repair it. I knew because I’d owned three other Tata Jaguar’s, that it was just a plastic ****. (Almost more for looks.)

And instead of taking the whole console and transmission control apart and unplugging everything; I realized all you had to do is take off the decorative cover on top, remove the ****, (One screw. Suggested it was T20 but only a phillips'.) and either repair or replace it. Well, an aftermarket replacement was not that much. So I ordered it.

Today I undertook installing the replacement. It was a little difficult to get off the glued cap, which is why it scratched so severely in the photo. There is a lip designed to get a screwdriver or something underneath it but when it’s pushed in, you, can’t see where that lip is. When I put on the new shift ****, I made sure it was in the down position because in the ‘Up’ position, you can’t access it with screwdrivers or anything.

Before I put on the decorative top using the glue pad that came with it, I ensured that it worked fine and it did. So the most difficult part of this job really was removing the glued-on plastic cap.

All in all, however, it was much much easier than taking apart the center console and removing the transmission control module. I posted this because there simply hasn’t been any other post like it that I could find.

[NOTE: it has been mentioned that different years of Land Rover’s have different style *****. I have a 2017 Land Rover Discovery L462 (Also called the Discovery V.) That had the part under the **** that locks onto the transmission control that was a cross pattern. However, I saw one advertised that also had a notch into the cross pattern, so it would fit the other style too. (I don’t know what that one is called. But it’s designed to work for any Land Rover with a similar shift ****.)