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From what I can gather, some newer cars (and the LDV may be one of them) play the indicator and reverse buzzer wounds through the car’s stereo. If, then, you have accidentally muted the sound system, those noises will also be muted.

Find your car’s owner’s manual which should have a section on muting and unmuting the stereo system. That’s the first thing to try. You could also dive into the menus on the touch-screen to see if there’s a function there for muting the indicator and other sounds. The other function to look for is a 'restore factory settings' button which should take the vehicle back to how it was delivered brand-new.

If none of that works, you could always try an LDV dealership which has probably seen this a hundred times before and will be able to quickly reinstate these functions for you. If you’re a regular servicing customer, they may not even charge you for the five minutes it will take. And if they can’t fix it, it then becomes a warranty issue anyway.

This make and model has a reputation for leaking transmission fluid either through breather outlets or plugs that should seal but don't. And one of the first signs that a transmission has lost fluid is a refusal to select a gear. Everything an automatic transmission does is through hydraulic pressure. Lose enough fluid over time, and there's insufficient pressure to make the vehicle move.

The good news is your vehicle should still be under factory warranty, so take it to an LDV dealership to be assessed. But don’t try to top up the fluid and drive it there, as this could cause more damage if the problem is something more complex.

There’s probably a very simple solution to this involving a wire that has been disconnected during the transmission replacement, and not reconnected afterwards. You might find it’s a wire to a sensor that has been bumped or disconnected, and without this, the engine doesn’t know it is below operating temperature and, therefore, doesn’t richen the air-fuel mixture to compensate.

This compensation is how modern, electronically controlled vehicles make do without an old fashioned choke lever. But if the wiring isn’t connected and the sensors all working, the car doesn’t have the information it needs to run properly under all circumstances.