Thread: New Defender Strange Engine Noise - Paranoia?

Originally Posted by solmanic

OK - here's a summary of what they did and didn't do during this visit.....

Sump pan - replaced under warranty. It is now a scheduled service item so others take note and see that it is done.

Fuel tank breather - not relocated.

The dealer is adamant that they are unaware of any service bulletin to do this. They have however asked me to email them any info I have from elsewhere so they can look into it.

Its not a service bulletin its a SSM (special service message SSM#37380

Engine problem - as I mentioned, they couldn't detect any problem, so nothing has been done. I guess I'll know tomorrow morning whether it's still doing it or not.

do you garage your car over night? becasue they may over night! hence the car not getting as cold for your cold start in the morning and them not veing able to replicate it, just a thought
Now just for everybody's interest, here are some other items I got them to look at so you can see what their hit and miss ratio is like....

Water leak under LH side of windscreen panel - nothing. They did a leak test and said nothing came thorugh. This is odd because when I noticed the drip off the bottom of the dash in the passenger side footwell I looke up and could actually see the water seeping through!

Squeaky clutch and brake pedals - trivial I know, but they fixed them.

Rear passenger door hard to close - fixed!

Missing trim rivet cap in cargo area - fixed

Rear seat support bracket incorrectly positioned - they are adamant that because the vehicle passed ADR inspection like this they can't touch it! (at least not without a mountain of paperwork) In any case, the rear seat has actually started sagging slightly so pretty soon it will be sitting on the support bracket anyway so I guess they figure they will get out of having to do anything.

Roof gutters misaligned - there has been much talk on the Defender2 forum about this. They checked it against a couple of other Defenders and reported that "they are all like this". Funny, I don't recall my Td5 being this crooked - oh well, as long as it doesn't leak..... oh hang on, it does!

All in all, it is only the engine revving issue which still has me worried. I will keep an eye on it but if anyone else has the same thing happening it would be good to know. BTW, is your vehicle still doing it DB & MM?

all symptoms on the car gone as far as i'm aware....only problem i can see at the moment is the car is smoking a bit (grey smoke) when the car is under load which it never did before the problem

Upon noticing that this thread by DB has been resurrected, I thought I should post a follow up to my own saga...

Took the Defender in for its 20,000km service a few weeks ago and reminded the dealer that the peculiar noise after cold start-up was still not resolved. Through summer (as I suspected) the issue has been absent, only occurring slightly perhaps once every two weeks or so.

This time the dealer said they found a fault code logged and it was a faulty EGR. I have read about people having issues with these on the Defender2 forum, so that doesn't surprise me at all.

The EGR is due to be replaced sometime soon. I'll keep you updated.