Land Rover Monthly

Of Mice and Men

WE are slightly unhappily wending our way to Swindon through an endless 50 mph limit stretch of the M4 in the Fella’s Discovery, when a warning light appears.

It’s an orange brake light warning but there’s no additional fault information showing on the little green-lit panel, which seems to exist mostly as a harbinger of bad news. We have grown to expect more than merely a warning light from the Discovery; it’s normally far more didactic.

I consult the handbook which lists three possibilities, all of which relate to the brakes, with

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