Hello there I took yours & Oldskool's advice found a decent enough chap to look for me & he is saying the torque converter has gone . as reverse doesnt need it & when driving backwards the momentum is putting some oil in to converter which allowing it to creep forward till it looses pressure...

Thank you for the reply/advice I'm in Bedfont near Heathrow. I would be grateful to know if there really was such a lovely rare animal as an honest mechanic in my area as unfortunatley I wont be able to do the fix myself as i'm in hospital on wednesday for a knee replacement so gonna be...

Hi All My lovely neighbour Ruth has got a 94 TDI Discovery Automatic, Which she lovingly referers to as Arthur, who is rather sick at the moment. It has no forward drive as such, it will creep along quite happily on tick over but putting your foot down does nothing more if anything its stops it...