Okay this one has been driving me absolutely crazy for the past ten days and I need to vent slightly while also asking if anyone's dealt with something similar. My Discovery Sport has developed this really annoying habit where sometimes when I put it in reverse, nothing happens, the car just sits there like it's ignoring me completely, and then if I put it back in park and try again it'll usually catch on the second or third attempt. It's not consistent at all which honestly makes it worse because if it happened every single time at least I could plan around it, but the randomness means I never know if I'm going to be sitting in a parking spot looking like an idiot trying to reverse out while people wait behind me. My neighbor who's fairly car savvy took a quick look and said it sounds electronic rather than mechanical, possibly something with the shift solenoid or a sensor telling the gearbox what gear you're actually requesting, but he was honest that Land Rover transmissions aren't really his area of expertise so he didn't want to guess further than that. I live fairly close to Muwailih so I started looking for options in that general area rather than driving across town, and ended up finding a listing for expert Land Rover gearbox specialists near Muwailih Sharjah that specifically mentioned dealing with electronic shift issues and sensor related faults rather than just fluid changes and basic mechanical work, which felt relevant given what my neighbor suspected. Before I book something in though I wanted to ask if this intermittent reverse issue rings a bell for anyone who's owned a Discovery or similar Land Rover model, since I've read a few things online suggesting it could be related to the shift lock solenoid but I'm not confident enough in that diagnosis to walk into a workshop and just repeat what a forum told me without actually knowing if that's realistic. Also genuinely curious whether this kind of intermittent electronic fault usually gets progressively worse over time or if it can just persist annoyingly without ever fully failing, because part of me wants to just live with it if that's an option, but the more paranoid side of me worries it's building up to something bigger down the line that I'd rather catch now.
