Thread: 2012 Defender drive failure 25,000ks

Pete for the win!

yes like pete said have seen 2 now do this, one was less than 60k old

no excuses for this in this day of materials knowledge and hardening processess IMO.

JC

Couldn't agree with you more JC. Pretty disappointing, especially as I have not flogged the thing at all. I suppose there will not be any improvement to the replacement shaft that goes in either?

At least the dealer and Land Rover customer care have been excellent.... So far.

Originally Posted by Jaserichards

Couldn't agree with you more JC. Pretty disappointing, especially as I have not flogged the thing at all. I suppose there will not be any improvement to the replacement shaft that goes in either?

At least the dealer and Land Rover customer care have been excellent.... So far.

it was my understanding that closer attention/ quality control has been applied to these parts as this is a lot more prevalent than we know about the world over. i pulled a transfer case from a d3 last week and was horrified to see no lube on the splines into the transfer case and rusty fretting already. IMO lots of these failures are due to poor assembly also.

still no excuse


jc

Originally Posted by justinc

it was my understanding that closer attention/ quality control has been applied to these parts as this is a lot more prevalent than we know about the world over. i pulled a transfer case from a d3 last week and was horrified to see no lube on the splines into the transfer case and rusty fretting already. IMO lots of these failures are due to poor assembly also.

still no excuse


jc

I heard a rumour that LR were neglecting the defender tooling with the idea of an earlier cut to the model. This was reportedly the cause of poor machining tolerances in many areas.
Then when they extended the model run until 2015 the tooling was fixed, the tolerances back to where they should be and many problems stopped.

I'm not sure when the dark days were.

With all these potential failures in the driveline, are there after market replacement parts available as an upgrade. I honestly would prefer to fork out $$ to make the car more reliable then rely on winning the jackpot of a potential failure.

Couldn't agree with you more Voltron. I would be happy to spend my own money now to ensure there are no weaknesses in the driveline rather than risk parking my defender on a sand dune 3 months out of warranty.

From the sounds of things dealers prefer not to talk about the alleged problems (I can understand why) but I would much rather being able to check for them.

I am sure I read somewhere that Ashcroft may have an uprated part in the works...