6 months down the line, having hauled my car from one service to another, none one them has figured out for certain what is wrong with it. It pulls away fine from start but always between around 1700 to 2500 rpm it sounds as if it is "chugging". This does not seem to slow the acceleration but the sound is bloody annoying. The service told me they had another car which was making this sound all the time so the changed his diff and then even the turbo before settling back on the pump as the guilty party. Now they are "convinced" it is the pump but having changed it on this other car, the noise is "significantly reduced" but still there. There is no way I am buying it that this is "normal" and specific to the pump. Anyone else had pump problems out there?

and to add to my woes, some total B****** took a bottle to my windscreen last week when it was parked and hammered away until he cracked it through in a nice almost circular pattern. (€1,100 for a new one) RRS TDV6 (gone)
RRS TDV8 HSE(gone, burned out)
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Down here they haven't heard of doing windscreens as an add-on so my comprehensive insurance takes the hit - anyway that is only the icing on the cake. The real problem is this 'mysterious' sound my pump allegedly makes RRS TDV6 (gone)
RRS TDV8 HSE(gone, burned out)
ML 320 CDI Airmatic

iam having the same problem and when i took it to the lr dealer they said it is normal it will do that in all rrs specially rrs hse is noticable more than the rrs sc.

I had a mechanic guy from the dealer and his reply was ''it is the gear when its try to adjust to engine speed before it changes to higher gear''

I think he is bullsh#$ing. But who knows can any one please please tell us what is it from ????? I have been searching for answers but no luck

Hmm, don't recall anyone mentioning this before either... at least any works will all be done under warranty so it'll cost you nothing more than the inconvenience  

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When I had my Tdv6 it occasionally made a sound just after start up and pulling away that sounded like the gearbox was really straining. It was very difficult to reproduce at the dealers after the engine/gearbox had warmed up however one day LRA were at the house after I had had several sessions of the engine going into limp home mode and with the engine and gearbox cold it perfromed on que for the LRA man. He reckoned that it was the gearbox oil cooler cutting in for 10 - 20 seconds while the sensor adjusted to the ambient temperature. I have not yet had this occur with the TDV8 2020 Pangea Green 1st Edition D240 New Defender 110 is here and loving it
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it is not exactly the same issue cuz this is constant either the car is cold or worm

Nope Tim, it's a different issue entirely. Strangely on my car, the sound is NOT apparent when the engine is cold but as soon as it hits normal operating temperature it can be heard when the engine is strained. This leads to some consideration of choking or not but I doubt it. The other car the dealer is working on demonstrated the noise all the time at all speeds. WowWoW, I am sure your's is a petrol engine so i suspect a different problem. Shmoogle, it's nice to have the warranty but after 6 months they still haven't fixed it and in that time it's been in service for 6 weeks in total - and before you ask about a courtesy car being provided............... ha ha ha RRS TDV6 (gone)
RRS TDV8 HSE(gone, burned out)
ML 320 CDI Airmatic