Jimmy,
This is good because I hope it was a fluke and doesn't happen again.
But picture this: it took me a night in a motel in Page to go over TOPIX diagrams and figure what happened (despite common opinion that it never happens).
How many bugs of that sort are in an LR4?
To follow up - the fuel level sender in my LR4 is also flaky, so half the time it shows zero. You know what's involved to replace that, so I'll keep a 5-gallon jerry can on the long trips just in case.
These two can also be related, in which case the bug is somewhere in the wiring.
The crossover coolant tube is also something a person buying an LR4 _has to_ replace, unless there's a receipt that it had just been done.
So, technically, an LR4 is a far better vehicle and a far better off-roader than any of the old jeeps and Rovers I had. But I don't know if I can ever trust it on a long trip. And it taints all Land Rover products from LR4 on for me.
For those that don't know, the Range Rover Classic, designed in the late 60's, was the platform the Defender was built on 12 years later, the same the D1 was built on 19 years later, and the same the D2 was built on 28 years later. Pretty impressive IMHO.