The car sounded different this morning. I'm not mechanically minded, so I can't describe in detail. I wasn't sure if I was imagining it, but my teenage daughter noticed it too. It has continued this evening.

The engine note just seems different - a little bit louder but more muffled and a different pitch. The only thing I can compare it to is an exhaust "blowing" slightly from years ago, back when they were prone to rust, but this is from the front of the car. Most noticeable when accelerating gently, particularly about 1500-2000rpm in the first few gears. It's not there, or very quiet, if I just rev it whilst standing still; only under load.

I was thinking of ignoring it for a week, then if it seem to be continuing, taking it to the dealer. Any ideas?

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Mine one day sounded different, just like yours, I only really noticed under gentle load when pulling off, voiced concerns to the dealer, on numerous occasions, and when they did look at it the master tech said that’s within tolerances (whatever that meant ?) as he’s driven 100’s of the SDV6 and couldn’t tell any difference
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Well, I took my wife out for about 200 yards and asked if she noticed anything (without even asking her to listen specifically) and she said it sounds like it’s blowing. Probably not just me then. We both think it’s from the front passenger side, under load in low gears between 1500-2000 revs.

I’ll take it for a blast down the motorway but I can’t think it’s regen as it happened from cold this morning - surely it wouldn’t try to regenerate when cold? RRS MY17 SDV6 AB
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If it's the DPF doing a regen there is usually a smell of burning too , haven't noticed it yet on our RRS but on the our previous Q7 it was quite noticeable . I'm a farmer and when our John Deere does a regen the droning noise in the cab and the smell of fumes makes you almost park up and leave it get on with it ! Indeed the first time it did one I jumped out fully expecting to put a fire out somewhere , but at least on tractors a light comes on the dash to tell you it's happening(once you notice it ) , in cars they just try to pretend it's not happening .

30 minutes down the motorway made no difference (other than it was sat at just the right rev range to hear it the whole time). The fuel economy is great too, so not DPF regeneration. RRS MY17 SDV6 AB
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Unexpectedly had to go in to work today, so on the way home I drove by the dealer. They kindly sent a tech out in the car with me and he heard it within 20 seconds. Said he could also feel a vibration too (wasn't sure if I was imagining that, so I didn't mention it - but the whole engine noise is like the bass has been turned up to full so it's sensible). He had a quick look with a torch, but couldn't see anything and it's booked in for a proper look the second week of May. RRS MY17 SDV6 AB
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Car booked in next week, been on a long run yesterday and I thought it was sounding a bit quieter (though still there) but was greeted with these messages about a mile away from home today whilst taking the daughter to school.







Stopped and started again - the charging one came back and the suspension one was replaced with:



Called the assistangce people - LR could come out this afternoon (which is no good, I have to be at work by then - I can get a lift) so the AA are coming this morning.

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Well the AA have been and the fault has been diagnosed. It wasn't charging because the auxiliary drive belt had come off. This led to the other errors, and prior to coming off, was presumably the cause of the noise/vibration, The reason it came off was because one of the pulleys was at a funny angle - a bolt holding the compressor seems to have snapped. Unfortunately this seems to be right pain to get at and I guess will probably need drilling out anyway, so a flatbed was dispatched (and arrived within around 20 minutes) to take my car away to the dealer. I was hoping to avoid joining the flatbed club. Later on a phone call told me that they have a Jaguar available for me to go an pick up (I thought they might bring it to me, but they did at least offer to pay for a taxi). I'll fetch it tomorrow. RRS MY17 SDV6 AB
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It will be interesting to see how long JLR take to do the job....... 2010 RR 5.0 Autobiography
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Well, update today. The broken bolt, which must be worth about 20p, needs to be replaced. They have the parts (I presume they'll replace the compressor and belt as well). But they need to take the engine out to do it. 10 hours labour was mentioned, though I'd guess it will be longer and that's just the book time for warranty work. Plus they need to try to fit it in around all the service work they have booked. RRS MY17 SDV6 AB
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I have the car back, engine has been out and back in, with a few bits replaced.

They also updated the infotainment system. Now it won't recognise my SIM card (and I've tried swapping it with the working one in my other car, and the one on another network from my phone, still won't work - well, it worked once, then failed when I restarted the car. Once out of about 25 attempts).

It also doesn't seem to be synchronising journeys and the app thinks it's parked at the dealers, though the last time it say it was contacted was when it was on my drive with the engine running (it still thinks the engine is running). I suppose that might be something to do with incontrol secure going off and it reporting itself stolen (I got text messages and phone calls).

Interestingly, it knows exactly where it is parked with on the landrover.here.com website.

Hopefully it will sort itself out overnight, otherwise it will be going back again. RRS MY17 SDV6 AB
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Oh god, now I'm worried. Pick my new one up on Monday.....