Hi
I really need ur help. I have a freelander 2, yr 2009, TD4 2.2. The car start to vibrates while accelerating in the front but only after it has been on the road for about 15 minutes. When starting the car when cold, it will drive normally but after a few KMS, it would start to vibrates as if one of the front rims is out of shape. We have done wheel alignement,balancing, rotation etc all ok on this side. I have read it might be the driveshaft and wanted to confirm, since I am far away, and all parts need to be imported from UK with 2 weeks transit time. Could it be the IRD or the vicous coupling? any advice would be most than welcome.

When this happened to my mum's FL2 it was because the front brake calipers had partially seized and the brake disks were glowing red hot.

next time you take it out, when you park up, put some spit on your finger and then flick it at the brake disks on the front, if it instantly fizzles away then that is your problem.

Thank you. Was yours vibrating only when accelerating or all the time. while driving, after it has warmed up?

It only started when it had warmed up and If i remember correctly, only when accelerating.

The brake caliper hadn't seized enough to stop the brakes from working correctly, but when i changed the disks and pads (as the heat had damaged them), I couldn't wind the piston back more than 1mm so ended up replacing both front calipers too.

After all that was replaced the vibration was completely gone.

The pistons push back not wind as far as I remember.

Don't the rears with EPB wind in? for the EPB mechanism - I was under the impression pushing them in could/would damage the mechanism. Mine wound back in no problem when I did my rear pads and discs. 2014 Freelander 2 TD4 Manual Dynamic
1956/7 88" Series One Land Rover
1956/7 88" Series One Land Rover - undergoing restoration

Yes, the fronts push in, although I use a "rewind tool" to push mine in ...... Perhaps it's just a bit of confusion with regards to the words / language used ????

Ah! - yes, my mistake. I hadn't spotted we were talking front brakes  2014 Freelander 2 TD4 Manual Dynamic
1956/7 88" Series One Land Rover
1956/7 88" Series One Land Rover - undergoing restoration

Grimdog wrote:

Yes, the fronts push in, although I use a "rewind tool" to push mine in ...... Perhaps it's just a bit of confusion with regards to the words / language used ????

PRadd wrote:

Don't the rears with EPB wind in? for the EPB mechanism - I was under the impression pushing them in could/would damage the mechanism. Mine wound back in no problem when I did my rear pads and discs.

Make sure the caliper pins are clean and freshly greased, that happened to me once. It looked like I didn't grease them on the last brake job for reasons which elude me (didn't have grease, was in a hurry?).

I've had mild prop shaft vibration, but not associated with warm up, it was always present around 15-25 mph.

For those who is having this issue, took 2 months to get a front pair of drive shaft from the UK and replaced them last week, the problem was fixed! The mechanic was quite surprised as they said, there was no movement/no play with the cv joints etc so they ruled out driveshaft but based on what I read in the forum, decided to gamble by importing and replacing it myself and it did work!

Thanks for telling us how the fault was cured. It helps all of us in the future. FL2 XS SD4 Auto 2010 2012-2017 (21k - 91k miles) (MY2011)
FL2 Metropolis SD4 Auto 2014 2017- (16k - 77k+ miles) (MY2015)
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(Expensive, but Trouble/Worry free - hopefully?)