Hi guys - hopefully someone will have a clue. Had some large vibration this morning while driving on the m4. Felt like driving over rumble strips. First I thought it was bad road surface, but did it while going slower on a road after. Anyway, got home and turned the engine over. All sounds fine. Decide to take for a mile to see if I can replicate, and sounds now like I have a bag of tin cans rattling under the car middle to rear. Vibration there also.

Any ideas. Looking on here, it could be a propshaft based on my searches. Car has been absolutely fine until this morning.

I would need to get it to rovertune for Tuesday. I don't really want the cost, but am wondering whether I should drive it in, or get it recovered.

What do you think?

Cheers, Steve 2010 TDV8

An extreme possibility I had on another car, was the Cats had destroyed themselves and all my metallic noise etc was coming from them, no vibration but it did obviously alter running/emissions etc.
Keep us informed as not read this one on the RRS.
My general thing with any problems is to check on my code reader the IID BT or checked through a LR/RR dealer John

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If it's coming from the centre of the car I would say it's the carrier bearing on the prop shaft.

Rear prop costs around £600 (I cant quite remember exactly as it was awhile ago that I changed mine), if you can't change it yourself it should be an hours labour as it's very easy to swap out.

Don't be tempted to buy the bearing alone as they're cheap knock-off bearings that don't last, also you need to split the shaft at the slide so that you can fit the bearing. There is a rubber shield that protects the splines and holds in the grease, this boot invariably splits when separating the shaft.
The seal isn't available to buy separately so it's easier to save yourself the time and effort and do it right once.

Rear propshaft is less than half that cost!
http://www.advancedfactors.co.uk/lr037028-...0801-p.asp 2012 SDV6 - it's missing a couple of cylinders
2008 TDV8 - it was a labour of love and is much missed

I did a quick Google and was getting prices around £600, which I thought was pretty high, but as I said its been awhile since I changed mine so couldn't remember.

Thanks for correcting me though

http://www.island-4x4.co.uk/propshaft-rear...-7937.html

Cheers
Col

Thanks guys. The car was recovered from home today and is at the garage. I await a call on what it is and when they can do it (and also whether the warranty will cough up). Their first thought based on symptoms is prop shaft (or bearings) so let's see.

Hopefully sorted one way or other by end of week. It's amazing how being a car down for a weekend is a real pain in the backside.....

Cheers, Steve 2010 TDV8

Socast wrote:

Thanks for correcting me though

Didn't intend to be so brusque  2012 SDV6 - it's missing a couple of cylinders
2008 TDV8 - it was a labour of love and is much missed

Sorted. Rear prop shaft assembley replaced under warranty 👍🏼 apparently epb had played up too and scored my brake discs so they needed to be replaced to but not covered. At least is done. 2010 TDV8

I would ask to see your old brake disks, I can't see why they would strip your rear hub's when they're replacing the propshaft.. sounds like a quickfit money spinner to me.

Hi, please correct me if i'm wrong but i thought the EPB worked with shoes and rear hubs, nothing to do with the rear discs ?? Sounds to me like someone needed a "Few Dollars More"  2007, HSE, Cairnes Blue, Factory tints, Love it !!!

The EPB brake shoes work in a brake drum in effect machined inside the Rear Disc so how on earth you would see that was damaged with out stripping it out I don't know. I suppose it could have been binding and overheated/damaged the rear discs or something like that but would have thought EPB shoes etc. would have needed replacing as well, it sounds slightly suspect.

Cheers
Col

Gornal Hills wrote:

Hi, please correct me if i'm wrong but i thought the EPB worked with shoes and rear hubs, nothing to do with the rear discs ?? Sounds to me like someone needed a "Few Dollars More"

Hi Socast, thanks for the vid, certainly makes more sense now. I always wondered how much you backed off the EPB and now i know  2007, HSE, Cairnes Blue, Factory tints, Love it !!!

Apparently one of the clips had perished and had caused the shoes to score the discs (or something like that). Makes sense, as had been making a squeak for some time (now not). To be clear, I asked them to investigate this at the same time.

In any case, I trust the mob at rovertune and am pretty confident that they wouldn't do anything unnecessary. Indeed, rob had my car investigating a fault previously for 2 days and didn't charge me a penny.... 2010 TDV8