I’ve never locked the suspension to change a tyre sounds like your compressor may be on the way out unfortunatelyRange Rover Westminster 4.4 TDV8 what a car
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31st Aug 2020 11:29 am
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Same here. Sounds like compressor is on its last legs.D4 HSE EU6 (Known as Jeeves)
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31st Aug 2020 12:01 pm
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Could be the air reservoir leaking especially if your suspension does not drop overnight.
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31st Aug 2020 12:03 pm
garrycol
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Sorry how do you lock the suspension - never heard of this - you can lock at access height but that does not stop the suspension moving when jacking.
I have had my car for 10 years and had many flats and have never heard of locking the suspension - there is nothing in the handbook either.
31st Aug 2020 12:24 pm
Dave Rich 2020
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Sounds like the compressor then.
Well when I jacked the car up to change the rear NS wheel, the car kept getting higher and wheel kept coming down, until the car was ridiculously high!
The AA said I should have locked the suspension to disable the lowering of the wheel??
Anyway, since then the compressor randomly vibrates when starting up and at other odd occasions, other than that it all works fine.
Cheers
Dave
31st Aug 2020 1:22 pm
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The AA person doesn't know what what they're talking about. There is no facility to stop the wheels dropping.
You just need a big jack to get high enough to get the wheel off the ground.
I don't imagine that what you did changing the wheel had any effect on the compressor, or any other issues related to suspension.Richard
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31st Aug 2020 1:25 pm
garrycol
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Dave Rich 2020 wrote:
Well when I jacked the car up to change the rear NS wheel, the car kept getting higher and wheel kept coming down, until the car was ridiculously high!
The AA said I should have locked the suspension to disable the lowering of the wheel??
As mentioned - absolute nonsense. When changing a wheel - you need to raise the car as high as you can - off road and if you are able even higher and then jack the height - as you found the wheel just stays where it is as you jack until the wheel travel is used up and only then the wheel lifts off the ground. Jacking it up first means less winding on the jack to get the wheel of the ground.
There is absolutely no way to lock the wheel so it raises with the body - owners need to learn the basics of how their cars work.
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1st Sep 2020 3:36 am
gstuart
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Hiya
Indeed, also never heard of locking suspension
Personally I’ve also put suspension into off road height prior to jacking, inc , pulling fuse F26 as an extra belt and braces so I at least know there’s no possibility of the compressor kicking in whilst jacked up
Bit Scary when u put the fuse back in as the suspension drops to the bump stops
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1st Sep 2020 5:28 am
gstuart
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Dave Rich 2020 wrote:
Sounds like the compressor then.
Well when I jacked the car up to change the rear NS wheel, the car kept getting higher and wheel kept coming down, until the car was ridiculously high!
The AA said I should have locked the suspension to disable the lowering of the wheel??
Anyway, since then the compressor randomly vibrates when starting up and at other odd occasions, other than that it all works fine.
Cheers
Dave
Hi dave
As others have said it does sound like a possible leak / compressor
Also and plse don’t think I’m being rude but since jacking it up on the rear NS and u now get vibration from the compressor did u accidentally jack it up under the compressor and possibly damage the bracket
Fingers crossed will be a simple fix
1st Sep 2020 5:40 am
garrycol
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Now that is a very good point - I have done it and thankfully it only cracked the compressor mounting bracket but it still worked - I have heard of others doing the same and actually damaging the compressor itself.
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1st Sep 2020 6:13 am
gstuart
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Hi @garrycol
Hope this finds u well
Many thks , Reason I wondered that as when I first bought my disco the compressor also rattled , indeed after I had a look found that someone had jacked it up as the bracket had been snapped completely off the chassis , the mountings were also non existent
also made a mistake as I didn’t realise at first that u can buy the bracket with and without the rubber vibration mountings, alas it took me months to sort the suspension out as it had been severely neglected
Phew, bet u was relieved it didn’t damage the compressor
See u can buy protection plates for the compressor
1st Sep 2020 6:47 am
garrycol
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Yes was traumatic - went around a corner and DSC came on due to a deflating rear tyre. Parked up in the nearest town to change the tyre while my companions went and got lunch and left me behind.
Set the car to super extended height (I have LLAMS) and rushing because I wanted lunch I put the jack in the hole at the bottom of the compressor cover rather than in the chassis - crack, crack, crack - thankfully the mount only.
By the time I got the wheel changed my companions had finished lunch and wanted to head off so I missed out.
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1st Sep 2020 11:11 am
gstuart
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Oh blimey mate , just what u needed , Not , when in a rush , glad it wasn’t too much damage but annoying non the less for u
What , they didn’t even bring u a doggy bag, oh mate , should have made them walk
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