I have a 1996 Land Rover Discovery 4.0 V8 with a manual transmission. After speaking to several online LR parts warehouses and several dealer parts depts, no on seems to know if there is a neutral safety switch for the manual trans. Does anyone know what will keep a 1996 manual LR Discovery from starting while it's in gear? Besides the obvious answer of not turning the key...

Asked by MattyC Jan 16, 2014 at 02:32 PM about the 1996 Land Rover Discovery 4 Dr SE7 AWD SUV

Question type: Maintenance & Repair

1996 Land Rover Discovery
5-speed manual transmission
neutral safety switch?
car starts in gear

3 Answers

discoreef answered 10 years ago

Ignition is bieng energized from fuse 12 causing it to lock the ignition.pull fuse and key will come out.

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garcher12 answered 6 years ago

I have read in several articles that say, there is no neutral switch on manuals only automatics must be in park or neutral. I have a 96 disco 1 and it starts fine/ dangerously without being in neutral. Are you trying to make it not start in gear? If so you may be out of luck, I always park it in neutral and set parking brake no matter what to prevent accidents.

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