I've been getting intermittent suspension faults coming up on the dash for the last month, and the service guys have been unable to find the problem. Initially they thought it was a corroded sensor, but after fixing it, the problem is just as bad. When its parked, the front left sometimes drops after a few minutes and the car is left on an angle.

It was so bad yesterday on my way to work that the car was squatting very low on the wheels and was bouncing along the road.

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RRS_bunny wrote:

.. intermittent suspension faults coming up on the dash..

You need to contact 4Wheeldriver - he has had a similar experience that lead to him getting his money back from LR....................... 2020 Pangea Green 1st Edition D240 New Defender 110 is here and loving it
2018 Melting Silver Mini Countryman PHEV - soon to be replaced
2015MY Corris Grey SDv6 HSE Dynamic, the best car I have ever owned, totally reliable only a cou0le of rattles in 3 years, now no longer in my care
Also in my garage is a 1996 TDi300 Defender 90 County HT made into a fake CSW

There were several ECUs changed in mine but they SEEMED to think that the multimedia unit in the dash was the culprit. I never drove it again after they announced they were "fairly confident" that they'd fixed it after 10 weeks of trying. That was enough for me. I think there is a list of the other ECUs that they changed in the car somewhere if you want me to dig it out? Need to ask the new owners if it's been fixed though. Bet they took off the RRSPORT.CO.UK stickers before they tried to resell it though.................  Current, M135i in Estoril Blue with more extras than the cast of Ben Hur.

535d m-sport Platinum grey and a few extras.... Gone

X5 3.0 sd in Space Grey, 20's, Dynamic Pack, Memory Pack, Media Pack, Tow Pack, Rear DVD, Panoramic Sunroof, Steps, 7 Seat Pack, Reversing Camera with moving lines, programmable park heat, etc etc etc - Gone

Range Rover Sport Santorini, privacy, dvd, towpack GONE!!!

Hi all,

It did it again on the way to work this morning, had to turn around and drive back home. Its being taken to the service guys again and I'll try and find out the exact fault codes that are coming up. I had "4x suspension fault do not exceed 30mph" errors within 15 minutes of each other and was bouncing along the road again.


The car just hit 100,000km...... what a coincidence.

Hey Bunny,
Not sure if this is relevant in your particular case, but can't hurt. Check the earthing of the main earth strap. (Ie remove paint, apply WD40 and retighten.) The suspension, as well as other things is earthed by it. It's under the plastic splash guard in the front wheel well. I had mine in and out of dealers chasing similar problems, with no luck, until a real expert (DPL) gave me the hint.
Hope it helps mate, good luck 4wding only starts when you have to get out the cab. Everything before that is just driving on crap roads!

Next time it starts acting up put up the 4x4 display on the sat nav screen and see what it does. 1 of the things that pointed them to it was it wasn't smoothly following what the suspension was actually doing! Current, M135i in Estoril Blue with more extras than the cast of Ben Hur.

535d m-sport Platinum grey and a few extras.... Gone

X5 3.0 sd in Space Grey, 20's, Dynamic Pack, Memory Pack, Media Pack, Tow Pack, Rear DVD, Panoramic Sunroof, Steps, 7 Seat Pack, Reversing Camera with moving lines, programmable park heat, etc etc etc - Gone

Range Rover Sport Santorini, privacy, dvd, towpack GONE!!!

RRS_bunny wrote:

I had "4x suspension fault do not exceed 30mph" errors within 15 minutes of each other and was bouncing along the road again.

Zilch, I'm in Melbourne....

I ended up paying to replace the compressor, and it was ok for 2 weeks and then I got the suspension failure message again. Its intermittent so very little chance of it actually faulting when the mechanics are looking at it.

The car has had issues staying level when parked - the car sags to one side. It can't just me my car that has these issues?????

Which dealer are you using RRS_bunny?

I assume you are out of warranty?

I've been using Ritters (car was bought from them) but they referred it to ULR after being unable to fix the suspension problem after 2 visits.

The compressor was replaced and software updated at ULR.....


Haven't done anything since due to time constraints......

When did you buy the car, and does it have any sort of warranty cover?

Sorry forgot the warranty bit!

It was bought maybe 2 or 3 years ago, and was under warranty at the time. The warranty has since expired (sept 2009) and its just gone over 100,000km now.

IMHO I don't think its unreasonable to expect that your car would be fixable, its just a question of (unfortunately) how many $'s its going to cost if something has broken...

Given you have what I understand to be one of the best indie's in Melbourne and also a dealer looking at your issue, my feeling is you need to cut to the chase (save time and wasted $'s on dealer guessing what the issue is) and get Land Rover themselves to come and diagnose the issue.

So in the first instance I would suggest you ask ULR to get the Jaguar Land Rover Australia Regional Technical Manager to come and look at your car. You will probably need to be there to demonstrate the issue. This should hopefully provide you with the real root cause.

The issue is that as you are out of warranty they may ask you to pay for this, and then obviously pay for whatever the fix needed is.. I would lean towards claiming in good faith that such a major issue should not occur on such a young car, that is only just out of its warranty and at least have the manager turn up and diagnose before negotiating on any costs.

If they can't diagnose and fix it then I would then suggest you see if you could claim it against your insurance as a write off, or consider taking legal advise for action against Ritter's / ULR / Jaguar Land Rover Australia as clearly it is not reasonable for a 3 to 4 year old car not to be able to be fixed by the the local experts and the manufacturer.

These are just my thoughts based on some experiences I've had.... Usual caveats apply, any risk is your own on any direction or action you take!

Seriously, ask if they've checked the multimedia in the dash!! That was where the fault lay in mine!

They changed out a few other ecus before they discovered there was a prob in there! Mine was doing aLl sorts of things!
Went to super extended mode for no reason, went to raise from acccess to normal and the nose stayed down and the rear rose.

Irs maybe worth a look at that as the first time mine played up it was diagnosed as the compressor too! Replaced it and it only
Worked for 4 days before packing in again!

I was lucky, mine was still under warranty though!

Best of luck with it.

4wd Current, M135i in Estoril Blue with more extras than the cast of Ben Hur.

535d m-sport Platinum grey and a few extras.... Gone

X5 3.0 sd in Space Grey, 20's, Dynamic Pack, Memory Pack, Media Pack, Tow Pack, Rear DVD, Panoramic Sunroof, Steps, 7 Seat Pack, Reversing Camera with moving lines, programmable park heat, etc etc etc - Gone

Range Rover Sport Santorini, privacy, dvd, towpack GONE!!!