Philip1972
Member Since: 10 Mar 2017
Location: Gloucestershire
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| UPDATE HELP Disco 4 severe wobble. Needs fixed by tomorrow!! |
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Morning all. Just collected my 71k miles D4 (2011).
Nice, but at 70+ there is a sever wobble. Like terrible wheel balancing.
Not convinced its the balancing as it comes and goes.
Any ideas?
Last edited by Philip1972 on 29th Mar 2017 8:15 pm. Edited 1 time in total
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 29th Mar 2017 11:45 am |
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adam
Member Since: 20 Sep 2005
Location: Home and Happy
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Dealer or Personal purchase?
If Dealer - take it back?
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| 29th Mar 2017 11:56 am |
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Philip1972
Member Since: 10 Mar 2017
Location: Gloucestershire
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Dealer. I will be taking it back, but I might just get the wheels balanced first to check.
I just wondered if there was a known fault.
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| 29th Mar 2017 12:00 pm |
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DrRobH
Member Since: 10 Oct 2015
Location: Hampshire
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Loose shoes in the EPB sometimes.
Get dealer to whip off rear discs, check and adjust. Visitor from fullfatrr.com
RR Vogue SE 2011 4.4 TDV8
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| 29th Mar 2017 12:12 pm |
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DrRobH
Member Since: 10 Oct 2015
Location: Hampshire
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Or a stuck caliper, usually rear.
Suspension bushes sometimes.
Needs a good look at to find it  Visitor from fullfatrr.com
RR Vogue SE 2011 4.4 TDV8
1974 Lightweight
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| 29th Mar 2017 12:14 pm |
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Woolmeister
Member Since: 26 Mar 2007
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Philip1972 wrote:Dealer. I will be taking it back, but I might just get the wheels balanced first to check.
I wouldn't do anything until your supplying dealer has been given the opportunity to sort it out. Getting the wheels balanced yourself may make them less inclined to help you and gives them somebody else to blame for it.
Just take it back and tell ask them to sort it out.
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| 29th Mar 2017 12:37 pm |
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Moo
D3 Decade
Member Since: 13 Aug 2010
Location: Wiltshire
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I had this. Most disconcerting. It turned out to be one of the rear suspension links. New Defender L663 110 SE (known as Noddy!)
Sold Volvo XC90 R-Design (known as Basil)
Sold - D4 HSE (Known as Gerty)
No longer the Old Buses original owner 
231,000 miles and counting
05 S manual owned from March 2005
D4 Face lifted
Still original injectors and turbo
V8 Front brakes
BAS Remap, Allisport Intercooler and deCat
EGRs blanked
T-Max split charge
Hanibal Expeedition rack
Prospeed ladder
Duratrac tyres
IID BT
BAS FBH control
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| 29th Mar 2017 2:27 pm |
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Philip1972
Member Since: 10 Mar 2017
Location: Gloucestershire
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Update!
Took it to a good tyre place, asked them to balance.
Balance WAAAYYYYY off (145 gms) but tyre had a high spot, quite noticeable when spinning.
Tyres were really cheap chinese crap, and half worn, so they took the tyre off and it was full of white milky liquid. Seems like that tyre repair stuff. The fluid rolling round would have been enough to create wobble (so they said).
Anyway, the other front was the same, so I said put 2 new ones on. Turns out they only had Vredstein (sp?) Wintrac Extreme. Happy about that as I use in the Alps alot.
Rear tyres were the same (egg shaped and a pint of white fluid in). So 2 of the same on the rear.
Straight on the motorway home, smooth as silk
I paid for the tyres, but the dealer has knocked them off the invoice (I haven't paid for it yet lol)
Thank you for all the help 
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| 29th Mar 2017 8:32 pm |
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DrRobH
Member Since: 10 Oct 2015
Location: Hampshire
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Which dealer sold you a D4 with crappy tyres on it? Name and shame!!!
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RR Vogue SE 2011 4.4 TDV8
1974 Lightweight
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| 30th Mar 2017 12:06 pm |
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Moo
D3 Decade
Member Since: 13 Aug 2010
Location: Wiltshire
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i'll never understand why people buy cheap tyres. Tyres have such a fundemantal impact on handling and braking and therefore safety.
Glad you got it sorted. New Defender L663 110 SE (known as Noddy!)
Sold Volvo XC90 R-Design (known as Basil)
Sold - D4 HSE (Known as Gerty)
No longer the Old Buses original owner
231,000 miles and counting
05 S manual owned from March 2005
D4 Face lifted
Still original injectors and turbo
V8 Front brakes
BAS Remap, Allisport Intercooler and deCat
EGRs blanked
T-Max split charge
Hanibal Expeedition rack
Prospeed ladder
Duratrac tyres
IID BT
BAS FBH control
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| 30th Mar 2017 12:25 pm |
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Member Since: 08 Nov 2005
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Even main dealers wont/dont care about tyres unless they are illegal from a wear or condition persective. I've seen D3 and D4's (2nd hand) for sale with incorrect spec tyres (too low weight rating, too small size), and on one occasion passed comment to the sales guy - could not give a hoot. As long as they had tread on and were round, that was all that mattered.
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| 30th Mar 2017 1:42 pm |
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L319
Member Since: 14 Dec 2013
Location: Herefordshire
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They are more critical when returning a vehicle on a contract!
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| 30th Mar 2017 1:54 pm |
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Robert SausageTrousers
Member Since: 09 Aug 2015
Location: Cornwall
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Picked up my 2014 D4 from my local LR dealer a month or so ago, had brand new tyres on all round.
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| 30th Mar 2017 3:31 pm |
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DrRobH
Member Since: 10 Oct 2015
Location: Hampshire
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I made them replace the rears - they took them off another motor  Visitor from fullfatrr.com
RR Vogue SE 2011 4.4 TDV8
1974 Lightweight
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