Hi, Picked up my 08 spec RRS last week and very disappointed that there is vibration in the steering when the car is under acceleration. My supplying dealer has had the car in 2 days and says "we sometimes get them like this and don't know what it is". As you can imagine I am greatly annoyed and have requested someone from Land Rover HQ comes out to look at my car. This really feels like a a drive shaft issue - anyone out there had something simliar?

Early models did have a problem with the steering column but I thought this had been sorted. A simple solution might be your tracking or wheel balance. Keep us informed please. 2005 Zambezi TDV6 - Gone but not forgotten
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Seems to be most noticeable at 1750 revs with the engine under load. Dealer now wants the car for a week while they investigate....didn;t think i would be coming some familiar with the service department just 2 weeks into ownership

My new TDV8 sometimes does that, vibrates under acceleration but i just put it down to the road surface and the fact that i have slightly larger tyres than standard, it doesn't worry me to much, but if it got worse and more frequent then i would be getting it back to the dealers.


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Have they sorted your suspension knock Envoy? Still pleased you changed (silly question with that V8 )

No they haven't sorted my knock out yet but they will and yes i am still loving the TDV8 over the TDV6, glad i changed yes , was it worth the extra spondulies, not sure thanks for asking  some of my Previous cars
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Was your TDV6 tuned
If so is there still a huge difference?
I only drove the V8 off road (managed to break the 2 week old FFRR ) so there was not much difference aprt from the lovely sound.

yes Cliff my TDV6 was chipped, and yes the difference between the standard V8 and the tuned V6 is still miles apart, but then the chipped V8 is just incredible, 50 mph to 120 is very quick indeed havent had it past 130, ran out of track  some of my Previous cars
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So - after nearly 2 weeks my car has returned from the dealer......and it is STILL EXACTLY the same They nearly fixed it by default as it was only feet away from being engulfed by the great Sheffield flood!! It would be great of anyone out there has a hint of how I can help the dealer locate the issue as I think they are generally clueless.

To recap the car is an MT0 TDV6 and is totally std (apart from the most annoying steering problem)

corben wrote:

So - after nearly 2 weeks my car has returned from the dealer......and it is STILL EXACTLY the same

If you do a search you'll see that this problem is quite pervasive... Many, many owners have the same issue and LR does not have a solution. Unfortunately, they can't just come out and say this... instead they blame it on your tires, wheels, steering rack, etc. I've yet to hear of someone that has had the problem, and found a true fix for it. Everyone who has bought new tires, has only had the problem reappear months later.
Welcome to LR ownership.

Only suggestion would be if something is out of alignment -Ask the dealers if they have done the settle treatment - slack off all mounting points and drive the car around to alloy all ancillaries and drive line components to move into a more natural position. Then back on the ramp and tighten it all up again.

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Hi!

I have exactly the same problem… but since I bought my TDV6 used I thought this might be attributed to bad tyre condition. I tried to balance the steering, but to no effect. I was waiting until I had to change my tyres… Now I see this is common…

This is not just an “annoying” thing that you just come to forget, it is really noticeable at those regimes (1750… or slightly higher) but I’m under the impression this vibration becomes less clear at higher regimes, not because it disappears, but because it increases the frequency to a point it becomes less obvious, but you can feel the shacking of small objects in the car.

Besides being uncomfortable, only mitigated by the extraordinary seats, the practical effect is less control specially at higher speed…

Could it be not steering related, but something with the engine?
I’m also going to try to fix this with the dealer… but with low expectations…

So they all do it! Well the 2.7 diesels that is. The test driver at the dealerships sat alongside me whilst i replicated the problem and then he confirmed that he could also feel the vibration is the steering wheel. I was then invited to drive any RRS in the dealership with the same engine. I randomly picked another RRS and the vibration is there! Wheel size alters the frequency and the rev range where it is most noticable, but essentially it looks like the engine is just badly paired with this vehicle. Other engines do not have this "feature". Comments?

Not sure... it's not widely reported on here as a common complaint, but obviously the posters on this thread have all suffered to various extents. Something's not quite right obviously, let's see what the dealer has to say about it. 

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hey I have a 08 rrs hse, when I am driving the car and especially when it revs up to 2500 rpm, I feel vibration then soon it goes away when the rev 3000 and above rpm I think it is the same problem, dealer said nothing wrong with the car it is hardly noticeable but I feel it while holding the steering wheel, strange .... you hear the enging smothly but when it hits 2500 rpm you hear another sound from the engine like vom vom vom vom before it changes gear and it is fine again you feelit a bit in the steering wheel........