I went to the shops today car ran perfectly as always came out started the car and there was a tremendous vibration from the engine on startup ran like a bag of spanners so turned of quickly and restarted car,it than ran as normal,any ideas,car has covered under 14000m.

Are you 100 per cent sure it was from the engine? Another member of the failed FL2 clutch/DMF club, twice.

Had this twice on my 2 previous Freelanders. Cleared after restart. Sounded to me as though the engine management computer gets the firing order wrong. Dealer could find nothing wrong and as it happened so rarely, could not reproduce it for dealer.

Happens with the Bosch EDC17 ECUs (MY2011 on).... On other models/manufacturers too.

Thank you for all your replies,I think you have hit the nail on the head exactly as if firing order was wrong!

I have seen this too on one of our cars, just once then OK. 3 x FL1 2 manual + 1 auto
5 x FL2 4 manual + 1 auto
Now Discovery Sport P250 MHEV SE

I had topic about the same issue (I guess it's the same).
Got this one time for a year and randomly.
Serviceman said that one of glowplugs not starter or sth like that (i am not mechanic)
If there are no errors after restart don't worry