Thread: 2012 Defender must be a 'real' Land Rover... Or my bad luck simply continues

What a pain!

It sounds more like a sticking park brake to me,chattering as you are coming to a stop like the clutch is still engaged. If so, an easy fix, and most likely an over exuberant human adjusting it too far.

JC

It's disappointing I know, but try to look on the bright side; they will work out what is wrong with it, fix it, return it and you'll soon have your beautiful new car back...

Better to have the issues crop up early, get them all sorted ASAP, and then you'll have better un-interupted play time !

My moneys on the handbrake being adjusted too tight. Pat

Originally Posted by wannabeexplorer

The past 6 months felt like 6 years; then I finally got the call to collect my new doublecab Tuesday gone past, but I didn't go home with the flowers...

There was an issue uploading the Aussie software version and wouldn't be resolved by the end of the day and considering the following day was Anzac day, nobody would be working late, so I went home with a demo from the dealership instead.

I waited so long for the damn thing I wasn't even upset about the news and anyway 2 sleeps will go by quick. By midday Thursday I got the OK to come get the beauty, this time taking the whole family with to share in the joys. My little boy just couldn't stop talking (more the he usually does when he's excited), but my little baby girl was either hungry or didn't like it and cried the whole way home.(She must have been hungry!) Not quite the first drive I had imagined...

The following day I had to drive about 60 km to get milk, because all the shops near me ran out of course! That's when I noticed a worrying noise, which to me sounds like the diff It's more apparent when I slow down braking in neutral or simply slowing down without breaks, it stutters as if it's in gear and the engine about to stop.

Back to the dealership with a mechanic driving along to confirm the noise "isn't normal" and a quick visual inspection reveals nothing, so will have the "axels dropped" on Tuesday to hopefully find and rectify the issue.

Issues before I got the keys and more aches after only being 96km old, I hope this isn't signs of what's to come, spending more time at the dealers workshop than on the tracks.
Another opertunity to get out there gone by, not wanting to take a chance and possibly get towed home; maybe next weekend hey?

Did it only do it once the car was warm? I will back pat up sounds like a dragging handbrake if it did

Handbrake adjustment first, then, is the pinion bearing preload too tight?
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Mine used to run rough at idle at the lights every now and then, so when it went in for its first service, I tell them,,
Two weeks later I get the car back,, new ECU, and new injectors (because they could'nt reprogram the originals),, runs well now but seems to be using more juice than normal,
They can check this at the next service,, (and I dont want a Volvo as a loaner,,- how embaressing,,)
Hopefully its something easy for you,, but as said, better now than when the warranty's over.

Chops

Thanks for all the replies guys, I will certainly relay the suspicion of the handbrake.

There are some gravel roads around the corner from me, so I took the landy there to play with the short stick to see if there was any difference when the diff was locked and then locked low range, and I couldn't hear the noise anymore, and is wasn't jerking when slowing down or braking... (probably just coincidence rather than anything todo with the 'short stick'?)

I was only doing short little runs to the local shop and started to think that if the noise aint there, how would the poor mechanic isolate the problem never mind fix it... So I went on a longer drive (about 50km) yesterday and on the way home I started noticing it again. So it does seem like it starts when driving some distance, but it hasn't been as bad as the first time I noticed it.