umbertob
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I don't blame some of you for sounding confused. Up until a coup!e of years ago every LR4, regardless of trim, came standard with the full blown Terrain Response system and a transfer case with low range. Those were the good days. Locking rear e-diff was an unpopular extra cost option - and at $400 or so it was also quite a bargain since it included a full size spare, but few dealers ordered LR4s that way, as few owners requested a locking rear differential. The car was plenty capable without it anyway. I had to special order mine as I couldn't find a single one with HD Pack in the entire Western US back in 2013.
Effective MY2015 (I think), a year after yanking 2 cylinders and quite a few horses off a silky smooth, powerful and sweet V8 engine for their own ******** marketing reasons, Land Rover got comically cheap and made the 2-speed transfer case optional, along with the full TR program that includes Rock Crawl (can't really rock crawl without a low range...) They jacked up the price of the "new" HD pack and included 2-speed transfer case, TR with Rock Crawl and rear lockers (and full spare wheel) in it. They added some obnoxious side steps of questionable value to make it up (!) to owners and that's the way things are today. Luckily they haven't come up with a 2WD version of the LR4 - yet. Give them another year or two and they might. :-(
In other words, prior to MY15 you really had to pull up the detailed build specs, or slide under the car to check out the diff case itself and spot the actuator, to be 100% sure the car had a locking rear differential. Anyone can add a full size spare as an accessory, so that's no guarantee. As of MY2015 it is at least easier to tell: if you have low range and rock crawl mode switches inside the cabin, you also have rear lockers.
Effective MY2015 (I think), a year after yanking 2 cylinders and quite a few horses off a silky smooth, powerful and sweet V8 engine for their own ******** marketing reasons, Land Rover got comically cheap and made the 2-speed transfer case optional, along with the full TR program that includes Rock Crawl (can't really rock crawl without a low range...) They jacked up the price of the "new" HD pack and included 2-speed transfer case, TR with Rock Crawl and rear lockers (and full spare wheel) in it. They added some obnoxious side steps of questionable value to make it up (!) to owners and that's the way things are today. Luckily they haven't come up with a 2WD version of the LR4 - yet. Give them another year or two and they might. :-(
In other words, prior to MY15 you really had to pull up the detailed build specs, or slide under the car to check out the diff case itself and spot the actuator, to be 100% sure the car had a locking rear differential. Anyone can add a full size spare as an accessory, so that's no guarantee. As of MY2015 it is at least easier to tell: if you have low range and rock crawl mode switches inside the cabin, you also have rear lockers.
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