Member Since: 11 May 2006
Location: Off again! :-)
Posts: 72740
Mine died at 166k, and had wanted for nothing, including oil changes at 7k. It was not so much when it died, more where. She died here: 9FWQGRGF+X4 (GoogMaps ref), a bit far from home.
18th Oct 2017 5:43 pm
WW88
Member Since: 19 Aug 2017
Location: Northants
Posts: 250
I would've still been gutted even at 166k, that it came out of nowhere ha, but jeez that is a seriously long way away, you didn't recover it back either did you? I think I read somewhere you went back and stripped it or something along those lines?
What MY was it?
18th Oct 2017 5:57 pm
DSL Keeper of the wheelie bin
Member Since: 11 May 2006
Location: Off again! :-)
Posts: 72740
No, economics were a no-brainier, she was scrapped up there. AA flew me back and I headed up with my D4 to pick up all my camping stuff (unfortunately I don't travel light on road trips) and whatever I could strip from her. Luckily Norway is an easy country to scrap a car in, I just had to pay to get it to the scrapping company, which wasn't too far away. She should now be turned into Norwegian Coke cans.
She was an MY06 S Auto.
18th Oct 2017 6:02 pm
WW88
Member Since: 19 Aug 2017
Location: Northants
Posts: 250
Well it's back and the noise is still there
My thinking is it's aux belt related as it's loudest in grille area, I can't hear it with bonnet up and can only faintly hear it from passenger wheel area. It also dissapears when revved as said before. So my theory is I'll just leave it and see if it develops at all. It's just had belts/pump done, so I can't imagine it's a problem there or specialist would've picked it up.
So, yeah.
20th Oct 2017 4:29 pm
Hairy47
Member Since: 13 Jul 2017
Location: Bradford
Posts: 277
Aux belt idler, mine was doing it and was loudest through grill area also... Like yours i couldn't hear it when being revved so much!
20th Oct 2017 4:36 pm
Downsman
Member Since: 04 Sep 2017
Location: Sussex
Posts: 99
WW88 wrote:
Well it's back and the noise is still there
My thinking is it's aux belt related as it's loudest in grille area, I can't hear it with bonnet up and can only faintly hear it from passenger wheel area. It also dissapears when revved as said before. So my theory is I'll just leave it and see if it develops at all. It's just had belts/pump done, so I can't imagine it's a problem there or specialist would've picked it up.
So, yeah.
otherwise known as the ostrich technique? 2007 Discovery 3 HSE
1986 Land Rover 90 Ex-MOD
1996 discovery 1 v8 (gone)
20th Oct 2017 4:41 pm
WW88
Member Since: 19 Aug 2017
Location: Northants
Posts: 250
Hairy47 wrote:
Aux belt idler, mine was doing it and was loudest through grill area also... Like yours i couldn't hear it when being revved so much!
I'm hoping this is the case!
20th Oct 2017 7:17 pm
WW88
Member Since: 19 Aug 2017
Location: Northants
Posts: 250
Downsman wrote:
otherwise known as the ostrich technique?
Ha, sort of. I'm just going to monitor it before I just simply ask for the tensioner to be done, rather than asking them to investigate "tapping/rattling"
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