Sorry about the less-than-entirely descriptive title. My google-fu is failing me, so I turn to you.
Vehicle: -99 Discovery 2, TD5, automatic. Green.
Problem: Land Rover.
Details: We were on a 1000km round trip this weekend, and at one point the disco gave me a bit of a scare. Smooth road, cruising along at maybe 90km/h. After about 400 km, without any kind of warning, all the lights on the dash light up, the steering wheel feels a bit weird (as if the power steering suddenly disappeared) and the whole car sort of stutters or jumps just a bit. I have about enough time to blink before the lights go back out and everything is back to normal. First reaction was to try the accelerator, but it was already back to running normally. After a few moments of confusion and internal cursing it does the same thing again for just a second. After that the rest of the trip went without a hitch. No sign of any problems.
First thought was some major electrical glitch or something that jumped out of contact for a second. Second thought was that the engine actually stopped running, as if I had turned off the ignition and immediately turned it on again.
It's had a fair share of various random little problems and borderline catastrophic failures, but this is the first time I'm actually worried it might suddenly just stop running, and we have another longer trip coming up in a few weeks time.
Any ideas, or have a missed some obvious thread that I should be reading?
Vehicle: -99 Discovery 2, TD5, automatic. Green.
Problem: Land Rover.
Details: We were on a 1000km round trip this weekend, and at one point the disco gave me a bit of a scare. Smooth road, cruising along at maybe 90km/h. After about 400 km, without any kind of warning, all the lights on the dash light up, the steering wheel feels a bit weird (as if the power steering suddenly disappeared) and the whole car sort of stutters or jumps just a bit. I have about enough time to blink before the lights go back out and everything is back to normal. First reaction was to try the accelerator, but it was already back to running normally. After a few moments of confusion and internal cursing it does the same thing again for just a second. After that the rest of the trip went without a hitch. No sign of any problems.
First thought was some major electrical glitch or something that jumped out of contact for a second. Second thought was that the engine actually stopped running, as if I had turned off the ignition and immediately turned it on again.
It's had a fair share of various random little problems and borderline catastrophic failures, but this is the first time I'm actually worried it might suddenly just stop running, and we have another longer trip coming up in a few weeks time.
Any ideas, or have a missed some obvious thread that I should be reading?