Blacktiger,

I did use a neodymium bar magnet for several thousand miles before I switched to the drain-plug with the magnet built in


Something like this

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Aitsite-Neodymium...bar+magnet

Note the specification that it can lift 33 Lbs, the magnet that I used is very strong, possibly even more than this

The housing is aluminum but the bolts are steel.

I placed my bar magnet across the drain plug bolt and the adjacent bolt. (you can see both in the picture below)

It never fell off







Good Luck

Paul

blacktiger wrote:

p_gill wrote:

Mudpuggler,

Edit this drain plug should work and its available in the UK https://www.amazon.co.uk/Gold-Plug-AP-05S-...rds=AP-05S

Or if you're a cheapskate like me, you could buy a small neodymium magnet and attach it to the existing drain plug. That'll magnetise the plug and do the same thing. Unless someone tells me that they're alluminium of course. https://www.amazon.co.uk/Strong-Circular-N...=neodymium

Well, it's been a bit of an expensive job but the source of the drone was drivers side rear wheel bearing.

As a process of elimination I had the front one changed first. It was grinding and definitely not smooth running so would have eventually needed changed sooner or later anyway.

So, the handbrake had seized as well so had to get shoes replaced. Rear discs replaced as well as I had worn the pads down to the metal (idiot). So, pads changed as well then. Had a the heat shield replaced too as it was warped and scoured....

So £539 in the hole and another £200 for the front bearing. Pi** in a basket...

On the plus side I've got a quiet car and the rear diff seems fine. However, I've developed a weird rythmic knocking noise on idle that disappears completely when 1000rpm is reached...JOY!!

Thanks guys for all the suggestions and advice.

Chicken and egg possibly !

Brakes get seized so running hot and it then fecks the bearings. FL2 MY10 TD4 GS traded in at 2 years
FL2 MY13 TD4 GS Current

Certainly didn't feel like that. Checked the wheels for extra warmth and always cold to touch.

I think I'm just an unlucky sort!

Near the sea by any chance ? FL2 MY10 TD4 GS traded in at 2 years
FL2 MY13 TD4 GS Current

I am now but can't be certain of proximity to the sea before I purchased the car.

I say sea, but its really estuary environment. Maybe she just doesn't like being in Scotland?

This is what it sounds like with chassis ears fitted, unfortunately mine now sounds the same!

 (Now Sold). 2008 Freelander 2 (Nazca Sand) SE TD4 Auto. Statutory write off & on WOVR for hail damage but still road legal.
171037Km as of 09/05/22
Superchips Bluefin Flash
Nanocom Evo II (also sold)

Interesting and informative. I would like to hear the diff after a repair now to see how silent it was. FL2 MY10 TD4 GS traded in at 2 years
FL2 MY13 TD4 GS Current

Me too YB, I bought the earlier none wifi version because a set came up on gumtree at a sensible price.

I now have to decide what road to take for the repair, if only Bell engineering had an Australian workshop  (Now Sold). 2008 Freelander 2 (Nazca Sand) SE TD4 Auto. Statutory write off & on WOVR for hail damage but still road legal.
171037Km as of 09/05/22
Superchips Bluefin Flash
Nanocom Evo II (also sold)

Just to pick the collective experience....

Mine today began to sound like this...
It appears at about 25 mph, becomes louder to about 30 mph, then quitter, then louder and then quitter, in waves as the speeds increases and at about 75 mph it stops. I didn't go up than 75 mph.
It doesn't matter if it is in gear or coasting and it is consistent at those speeds when it manifests itself louder.

I suppose that the tires are first to check as if it is a bearing then the sound should become louder and louder and it shouldn't stop at some speed, right?

All this appeared after a 300 miles round trip, mostly motorway speeds at about 75 mph.
And I've noticed it at about the end of the journey, it wasn't there at the beginning, in the first part.
On the come back part, the car was much more loaded than on the first part.

It's possible that a bearing to gets damaged in so short distance, on the last part of the journey?
Or a tire to get damaged, again, in so short distance, as in the beginning the sound wasn't there?

Alex, my GG AT2 tyres have the same issues. Whining/withering sound at 30 then 60 then again at just over 70mph. This started the first time I fiited them as winter wheels. Very much depends on road surface. It can dissapear on stonechip covered tarmac and generaly the newer and smoother the road is the worse it gets.

I have then swapped wheels back to the original Goodyear ecogrips for summer and all was quiet again.

I have had the diff bearing fail and does not sound the same. Constant noise that slowly varies with speed

JGH99 Freelander 2 GS Stornoway Grey
Jan 2007 Bought 71,000 miles. Currently 149,300 miles.

alex_pescaru wrote:

Just to pick the collective experience....


All this appeared after a 300 miles round trip, mostly motorway speeds at about 75 mph.
And I've noticed it at about the end of the journey, it wasn't there at the beginning, in the first part.
On the come back part, the car was much more loaded than on the first part.

It's possible that a bearing to gets damaged in so short distance, on the last part of the journey?
Or a tire to get damaged, again, in so short distance, as in the beginning the sound wasn't there?

After some more road experiences - where the sound changed intensity based on sudden changes of steering direction - and a careful inspection - I've had access to an elevator - I've concluded that the sound comes from the rear right wheel bearing.
This was also confirmed without a doubt by a very small, yet certainly perceptible, play of the wheel/bearing.
So, it is booked on Monday for a wheel bearing change. I'll keep you posted on the outcome.
So strange that the sound/damage was so quick, on no more than 100 miles, from total silence to obvious and loud sound/damage...

Not that unusual for a wheel bearing to fail like that Alex, plus you often get accustomed to the sound as it develops.

I wish mine had been a wheel bearing & not the diff! Am now waiting on rebuilt diff to arrive from Bell Enineering! (Now Sold). 2008 Freelander 2 (Nazca Sand) SE TD4 Auto. Statutory write off & on WOVR for hail damage but still road legal.
171037Km as of 09/05/22
Superchips Bluefin Flash
Nanocom Evo II (also sold)