I’ve been having trouble with my LandRover for a year! A strange noise at slow speed (25-35mph) has left the dealer scratching their heads and replacing bits that didn’t need to be replaced…. as the noise persisted. To me it always sounded like a differential noise but they chose not to dive into expensive things as they were paying. After attaching listening equipment and running ‘in the air’ they conceded the noise was coming from the transfer box which they reluctantly (£6000 retail job) replaced….it didn’t work!

So over Christmas I was idly bemoaning my frustrations on a ‘caravan and motorhome forum’ that I occasional visit. There was the usual banter of “what do you expect from a LandRover?”. But I then got a PM.

The guy had just been made redundant having worked for JLR Driveline and Transmission Team for 30 years and had come across this problem before (if my description was correct). 
Apparently there was a bulletin issued …but not in the UK, only in China and other markets…with a potential solution involving changing the front differential mountings to a different spec. 
His experience (he had personally corrected several cars at Gaydon) was the sound was indeed emanating from the transfer box but being transmitted along the prop shaft to the front diff and into the car superstructure through these mounts….and thence to my ears.

The dealers are now trying to find this bulletin (a major task as JLR have made most of that knowledgable team redundant due to COVID and Brexit) so it’s not sorted yet. But the point is that it beholds all of us to air problems or items of interest we come across whatever the subject because there could be an expert on that subject who has the answer to your problem, browsing the forum for another reason.

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