Land Rover Discovery II 2 owners manual page 92

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Automatic Transmission Starting and driving On long inclines the gearbox will sometimes Drivers unfamiliar with the performance change back and forth between gears. This characteristics of an automatic gearbox should occurs because the transmission does not thoroughly familiarize themselves with the include a ratio that is precisely right for the following instructions before driving.particular incline and vehicle loading • Before starting the engine, ensure that both circumstances. However, excessive gear foot and parking brakes are applied.changing results in a loss of momentum and is • After starting the engine, KEEP BOTH wasteful of fuel. It can be prevented by selecting BRAKES APPLIED before and whilst moving the ‘3’ or ‘2’ positions which limit the gearbox the selector lever to the required drive to lower ratios. position. ‘Kick-down’ • Keep the brakes applied until you are ready To provide rapid acceleration for overtaking, to move - remember, once a drive position push the accelerator pedal to the full extent of is selected, an ‘automatic’ will tend to creep its travel in a single quick movement (this is forward (or backward) without throttle known as ‘kick-down’). Up to a certain speed, application, as soon as the brakes are this will cause an immediate downshift into the released. lowest appropriate gear, followed by rapid • Never ‘rev’ the engine while selecting a acceleration. Once the pedal is relaxed, normal forward or reverse drive gear, or while the gear change speeds will resume (dependent vehicle is stationary with a drive gear upon road speed and accelerator pedal selected - remember, an ‘automatic’ will position). move immediately once the accelerator pedal is pressed. NOTE: The starter key cannot be removed unless the gear selector is in ‘P’ (Park). Gear change speeds With ‘D’ selected, the road speeds at which gear changes take place will vary according to the position of the accelerator: minimum acceleration will result in gear changes at low road speed, while larger throttle openings will cause the gearbox to delay gear changes until faster road speeds have been reached (thereby increasing acceleration). With practice, gear changes can be made to occur at a wide range of road speeds depending on accelerator pedal pressure. 99

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