Nutty Nige wrote:

Welcome to the forum biggy
But don't hold your breath
There is an issue with some of the 07 models that still knock with a new anti-roll-bar, new bushes, brackets the lot, and mine is one of them.
Drive on smooth tarmac at around 20-25mph and snatch the steering wheel real hard one way and then the other
As the weight trasnsfers the knock can be heard loud. This is not the knock that is mentioned in the roll bar mod.
At the moment their are some modified parts being made but they are not available until next month.
Lets hope they work.

Post it on the FFRR site Doc we are not listening  some of my Previous cars
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Yes, mine also knocks. Developed after about 3000 miles. took it back to the dealer who told me that it was a characteristic of the car. As did LR customer services.They then replaced the anti-rollbar and bushes, and yes, it still knocks! The exact same symptoms as nutty nige mentioned. The car is going back next tuesday for further investigation.
This time the dealership are going to stick microphones under the car to try and pinpoint exactly where the noise is coming from.
I'll keep you posted.

frizz wrote:

Yes, mine also knocks. Developed after about 3000 miles. took it back to the dealer who told me that it was a characteristic of the car. As did LR customer services.They then replaced the anti-rollbar and bushes, and yes, it still knocks! The exact same symptoms as nutty nige mentioned. The car is going back next tuesday for further investigation.
This time the dealership are going to stick microphones under the car to try and pinpoint exactly where the noise is coming from.
I'll keep you posted.

Welcome to the forum of TURN UP THE RADIO TO STOP THE KNOCKING Frizz
I told LR where the noise is comming from 6 weeks ago- but I was asked not to disclose it on here as it is a public forum.
Obviously they will want to know that it cures it before they disclose the source.
There are some modified parts on the way to try on mine as the bogy car. These should be here in the next 2-3 days.
If it cures it there may be a recall on some vehicles I suspect.
I will keep you all posted. You don't stop playing because you get old, You get old because you stop playing.

07 TDV6 been and gone. 08 TDV6 been and gone. 08.5 TDV8 in evaluation mode and now gone. BMW 535D M sport Been and gone, Now time for RRS No4 - TDV6 HSE in Stornaway with Ebony - 09 Model 6 months old.
RS Cosworth 4x4 Stage 2 Mint for summer
Audi TT
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Nutty Nige wrote:

Welcome to the forum of TURN UP THE RADIO TO STOP THE KNOCKING Frizz
I told LR where the noise is comming from 6 weeks ago- but I was asked not to disclose it on here as it is a public forum.
Obviously they will want to know that it cures it before they disclose the source.
There are some modified parts on the way to try on mine as the bogy car. These should be here in the next 2-3 days.
If it cures it there may be a recall on some vehicles I suspect.
I will keep you all posted.

Hi all, we have an MY07 December 06 RRS TDV6 HSE with the same problem. Every morning when it drops off the end the drive (about an inch high) it clangs from the outside and when on full lock it makes an awfull noise. I have not bothered taking it to the steeler as I know it wont show when there.
John

Cheers! Thanks for the Welcome.
Just to give you an update on my 07 RRS HSE.
The car went back to the dealer yesterday where they bled the arc system and downloaded the dvd 107 patch 4 and not the 105 patch 3 as mentioned by the voice of reason in the thread. This I assume must be the latest software upgrade.The bushes were replaced about a week ago with PT No RVU5001. They also attached accoustic pads to the underneath of the car to pinpoint where the noise was coming from, and agreed that the noise was eminating from the arc system.
Anyway, picked the car up in the afternoon and YEP! IT STILL CLONKS.Even with the system disabled and in different ride heights at 5 MPH, turning the steering wheel left to right about 1/4 turn I still have a clonk clonk noise that can even be felt through the steering. Slight rises in the road surface and accelerating from standstill also trigger this noise.
Has anyone out there managed to get theirs fixed yet??? If so, maybe they could shed some light on how to get mine fixed.
At present I'm Waiting for LR customer services to contact me after speaking to LR technical.
Cheers again! Posting again soon......

Hi Frizz
Judt an update for you.
Mine is going into the dealers next week and LR engineers are coming to look at it
They will fit the modified parts and see what happens.
As soon as I have any info I will let you all know.

Lets keep our fingers crossed.  You don't stop playing because you get old, You get old because you stop playing.

07 TDV6 been and gone. 08 TDV6 been and gone. 08.5 TDV8 in evaluation mode and now gone. BMW 535D M sport Been and gone, Now time for RRS No4 - TDV6 HSE in Stornaway with Ebony - 09 Model 6 months old.
RS Cosworth 4x4 Stage 2 Mint for summer
Audi TT
Astra VXR for the daughter.

well mine went in to the dealers today for the suspension knock fix, and guess what, yep you guessed it, its still there even though i spoke to the dealers and gave them the info off here and from VOR and the part numbers, they gave me a tecky bullletin from L/R explaining what the water knock was, which i accept, but it still has the same knock as my old TDV6 which they cured.

They have offered to fit the bushes at a cost to me of over £200 as they say there is nowt wrong with them, i will be speaking to them again tomorrow  some of my Previous cars
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FFRR Vogue black
Disco3 HSE silver
RRS 2.7 HSE silver
RRS 3.0 HSE BALTI BLUE
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current vehicles
RRS 3.0 L494 Autobiography
Audi R8 V10 Spyder
AC Cobra
Landrover Defender 90
Landrover Defender 110
Suzuki Jimney

Hi Nutty Nige.
I'm keeping my fingers crossed too!
I wonder if the modified part could be some-thing to do with the arc pump. Maybe they have restricted the ports to stem the violent flow of the fluid, hence smoothing out the delivery.
Just a stab in the dark!
I am sure LR will sort the problem out in the end.

Cheers.

Hi Envoy.
I too have been given the bulletin, and if my c/heating developed a "water hammer knock" I would fix it.I am sure LR are working on a solution as I write.After all my fixes, the dealer told me that there is nothing more they can do until LR advise them otherwise.
As long as we keep writing in there may be potential customers out there who might read these posts first before purchasing a RRS. I myself would have chosen an alternative if I'd been told that the car may develop a "water hammer thud"after 3,000 miles.
Other owners out there with the same problem should also return their car to the dealer so that they can submit an EPQR to LR.
Customer services at LR assure me that the technical dept are aware of the problem, and hopefully working on a fix. It seems to me that Nutty Niges' car could be used as a guinea pig trial for this possible fix with some modfied components."Let's hope it works".
Cheers!

This forum has the power to change this ridiculous issue!

My 06 RRS HSE has had this problem for ages too. The only reason I didn't know about it sooner was the knocking from the tailgate latch problem was louder!!!

Anyway, a combination of Velcro and LR approved dealer installed "fixes" has kind of resolved this problem. I say "kind of" because this week we have noticed that the "tailgate open" warning comes on every day after my daughter closes the tailgate at school rather than every other day!!

On the suspension knocking issue my dealer (Stratstone High Wycombe) had my car for a week trying to resolve this most annoying problem. After I got it back, all nicely shiny and clean I really thought "yes" - clever lot, they've fixed it. Alas, I was wrong; the knocking is back a month later! The description of when it happens is so accurately described here that I know mine has exactly the same problems as yours.

I have a question? Do we want to encourage LR and our dealers to take this seriously? The reason why I ask this question is due to the French. They don't have problems like this generally. In France, if Renault didn't fix a problem like this, the disgruntled French owners would all take collective action and park their unsatisfactory vehicles in front of either the Renault MD's home or the Prime Minister or Presidents home / the Champs Elysee or both and always the factory so no-one could get in to make any more sub-standard vehicles.

This may seem radical and I'm not suggesting that anyone acts illegally but I get the impression that all of this chat, although very cathartic for some, is actually just that. Is LR really listening to our plight?, I don't think so. Has anyone had a letter from them apologising that the first year of ownership of their £50k+ car was spoilt by poor design or workmanship or both? I doubt it. Has anyone been invited to their dealer to discuss "a plan of action" to commit the dealer to put this sad and sorry affair behind us? Not a hope in hell!

You know what? - we are on our own! We know it really but the Brit in us (sorry Scots are top too) insists on suffering alone. We have proven before that the collective is far, far more powerful than any single owner.

Why don't we contact Top Gear and see if we can create a line of faulty LR vehicles along their runway end to end to see how far we can get? I can imagine a heli-telly shot where they do a fly-by along their runway flying over dozens of Range Rovers with posters detailing all the outstanding faults lists on their roof!

Some other "stunt" may also be necessary to demonstrate to LR that although this isn't exactly France (where they would be anticipating some form of direct action from disgruntled owners) that we feel passionately about this; we insist that our investments do what it says they would in their brochures; we don't want to feel disappointed and angry at ourselves all the time because we feel we may have made such a poor purchasing decision by buying a Land Rover - more importantly, we actually bought the premiere Range Rover brand so have a right to feel even worse about our situations and our judgement.

Call me a moaning old git if you like but I am tired of rolling over and letting Corporates have me from behind because I feel too powerless to act like a Frog (frenchman)!

[Admin/ Mod Any chance of a vote post on this to see who really wants to do something about this rather than just talk about it?] It's finally gone! Replaced with BMW 730SE in Sophisto grey Xirallic finish with Oyster (Ivory) and black interior. DAB, Climate glass, Ceramic iDrive and gear selector, power boot and iPhone Bluetooth pack - luvvin' it!

I miss my old RRS "bucket" rattling around but it just had to go!

We might think that discussion forums and a lack of direct action are not affecting sales but you could not be more wrong. I personally know of 6 people living in Brussels who have been put off buying a RR Sport due to a heady combination of concern over the now infamous "knocking noise" and rude and disrespectful sales staff. They are all either driving an X5 or a Xc90! The sooner that LR sort this out the quicker their reputation will be stabilised.

Keep shining a light on these problems and we will hopefully see results!

Hussar

Well done Hussar! Alas, I have only Managed 2. One bought an Audi Q7 instead, the other I dont know.
None the less I rekon thats still about 400,000 pounds thats slipped through LRs hands.
I asked one LR dealer, that if I were to go to a BMW showroom and try to trade in my RRS and that after the dealer had test driven my car refused to take it in P/EX because of the clonking noise, I was then to show him the technical bulletin.(Would this change his mind?)I think not!
Anyway my car goes back yet again to the dealer whwere a LR reigonal technical manager will be inspecting the vehicle.(Any bets on what he fobs me off with?)
Anyway be interesting to see if nutty nige or for that matter,if anyone else has had theirs fixed yet.

frizz