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| noworries4x4 Member Since: 24 Dec 2010 Location: Newton Abbot Devon Posts: 1195  
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The handbrake needs adjusting correctly, i used to get this all the time and have noticed it on many courtesy defenders that i have had. If seams that the return srings are not very good and when there is a large air gap round the shoes they move off centre and the leading edge just catches as you slow down and causes the vibration and driveline clatter, Keep it adjusted to 1 or 2 clicks on the lever and you wont hear it again. If everything is under control you are not going fast enough.
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18th Dec 2011 9:36am |
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| oldnickers Member Since: 17 Dec 2011 Location: Tunbridge Wells Posts: 11  
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Thanks noworries, really appreciate the advice...sounds like that will do the trick. Fingers crossed, because I really am enjoying the Defender so far!
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18th Dec 2011 1:20pm |
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| stevie d Member Since: 09 Nov 2009 Location: Bishops Stortford Posts: 342 
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That's strange a main dealer can't diagnose a Defender fault - must be a first!!
Steve  Defender 90 TD5 Station Wagon
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18th Dec 2011 5:13pm |
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| oldnickers Member Since: 17 Dec 2011 Location: Tunbridge Wells Posts: 11
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Update - got car back from supplying dealer - seems a new transfer box is required and they are on back order. Not very encouraging in both respects...
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Defender 2.4 2011 (gone) Discovery 3 HSE 2007 (gone) Porsche Cayenne V8 S Diesel 2014 Porsche 911 GTS 2015 |
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24th Dec 2011 10:20am |
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| pjh Member Since: 22 Nov 2010 Location: West Yorkshire Posts: 126 
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Hi,
Happy Christmas! Our 110 XS MY2011 is doing exactly the same thing - now has about 1,100 miles on the clock. It only seems to happen after a long run and then at low speeds, as you describe. Would be really interested in how you get on. Have you got an eta on the transfer box? Many thanks, Peter Defender 11MY USW |
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26th Dec 2011 10:08am |
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| AndrewS Member Since: 10 Apr 2007 Location: Hereford Posts: 3709 
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I bet it still has the same issues when you get it back, Then you can tell them to change the park brake drum and adjust the park brake properly, 130's have feeling's as well you know  |
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26th Dec 2011 10:27am |
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| oldnickers Member Since: 17 Dec 2011 Location: Tunbridge Wells Posts: 11
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No update on eta - dealer in the dark (yeah, I know...but they do look after me well). If this doesn't fix, then I guess it'll be the handbrake, which I did suggest to them already. Anyway, of more concern is the total absence of snow!! Defender 2.2 2013
Defender 2.4 2011 (gone) Discovery 3 HSE 2007 (gone) Porsche Cayenne V8 S Diesel 2014 Porsche 911 GTS 2015 |
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28th Dec 2011 6:33pm |
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| oldnickers Member Since: 17 Dec 2011 Location: Tunbridge Wells Posts: 11
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Update - new transfer box arrived and fitted yesterday. LR had me in a hired Freelander for the last week or so...I guess the cost of that helped accelerate delivery of the new box because original timescale was end of January! Collecting Defender tomorrow so I hope it's solved - mainly because I was getting too used to the refinement and practicality of the Freelander
Thanks again for the earlier input. Defender 2.2 2013 Defender 2.4 2011 (gone) Discovery 3 HSE 2007 (gone) Porsche Cayenne V8 S Diesel 2014 Porsche 911 GTS 2015 |
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19th Jan 2012 9:22pm |
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| Zagato Site Supporter Member Since: 08 Jan 2011 Location: Billingshurst West Sussex Posts: 5013
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Does sound like the handbrake recall issue, check on Topix if yours needs doing or call any dealer with your VIN number and registration and they can look it up for you. I would call another dealer just to check
It is this, 2007 - 2011 model year, park brake oil contamination (programme Number PO22) . I didn't have any symptoms but I wasn't told until 2 months adfter I had bought it. You would think they would check on any due recalls before they send them out  |
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20th Jan 2012 7:59am |
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| oldnickers Member Since: 17 Dec 2011 Location: Tunbridge Wells Posts: 11
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Thanks Zagato, I did ask them to check the recall when I collected it. Showed me a printout they do automatically which said there were no outstanding recalls on the vehicle. Apparently the old transfer box oil was badly contaminated with metal particles and the car seems much smoother than it was. Defender 2.2 2013 Defender 2.4 2011 (gone) Discovery 3 HSE 2007 (gone) Porsche Cayenne V8 S Diesel 2014 Porsche 911 GTS 2015 |
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20th Jan 2012 11:58am |
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| Zagato Site Supporter Member Since: 08 Jan 2011 Location: Billingshurst West Sussex Posts: 5013
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Hope it is sorted
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20th Jan 2012 1:04pm |
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| CFB Member Since: 13 Sep 2007 Location: Bradford, West Yorkshire Posts: 803
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I'd put money on it being the handbrake issue, happened to mine with exactly the same symptoms, always at the end of a long motorway run as heat builds up. Andy
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20th Jan 2012 3:23pm |
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| oldnickers Member Since: 17 Dec 2011 Location: Tunbridge Wells Posts: 11
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Well, it's been a while and I wanted to see what happened following the fitting of the second transfer box.
It wasn't good news. The "new" box (which I think may have been a remanufactured one) whined on the first day. So I returned pretty annoyed, they agreed, and I told them if it wasn't fixed in a week I would like to return the car. That got things moving, and the dealer swapped a new one out of a sales car that had delivery miles only on it. Within a week. The new box was just like the original one in terms of quietness. When I collected it, the mechanic who'd fitted it and become a bit of sympathetic friend mentioned that he'd slackened off the handbrake as the shoes had been picking up on the drum...now that sounded ominous...I wondered (even hoped) that the original problem was exactly as a number of you guys had suggested (and I'd relayed to the dealer) so I'd be effectively where I should have been at the start. It's now starting to clunk again though!! I am now able to hear the early onset of it. Only gets worse as the miles increase. What should I do? Return the car and avoid Defenders? Thing is, I really like knocking about in it! Advice gratefully received. Defender 2.2 2013 Defender 2.4 2011 (gone) Discovery 3 HSE 2007 (gone) Porsche Cayenne V8 S Diesel 2014 Porsche 911 GTS 2015 |
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17th Mar 2012 8:27am |
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| T1G UP Member Since: 08 Dec 2009 Location: Bath Posts: 3101 
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IMHO Oldnickers i think thats the way they are.
There is a certian amount of slack in the transmission and if driven sympathetically they are quite and slop free. If not the are horrible things with clonks and bangs and loads of backlash. I think 3 out of 3 faulty TBs are unlikely, so its either the diff has play or you've been very unlucky or you ain't suited to a defender? Have you tried another vehicle to see if "they all do that" ? |
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17th Mar 2012 9:00am |
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