Speed kills ... .........................not that I get the chance to speed what with all the caravans on the roads  At work
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"I can't always believe facts I read on the web" - Charles Dickens

winner by default of the tractor vs caravan race

Away to your 20mph grain trailer tractor boy

New tractor arrived today so 30mph trailer tractor boy I thank you  At work
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"I can't always believe facts I read on the web" - Charles Dickens

winner by default of the tractor vs caravan race

Quote:

Speed kills

Only if you hit something.....

if you drive with care you you can avoid all incidents by swerving either left or right  ______________________
2011 Full Fat RR 4.4 TDV8
2012 FL2 SD4 Auto HSE
2013 Kawasaki Versys 650

Tandemman wrote:

TonyJ wrote:

The handbook suggests driving between 2000 & 3000 RPM

Landrover must not want us to use 6th in th UK 2000rpm is 72mphaccording to my satnav.
obviously I haven't dared try 3000rpm

Had a good drive out with a dealer technician who picked up the vibration in the gear lever and the dashboard trim. THis was a new problem for him; he had only had to put new gear change cables on one car up to now (and not for a vibration).

I then drove him out in one of their manual demo cars with 4000 miles on - and it's almost the same. Perhaps not quite as noticable but there nonetheless once you have tuned in to the feel. THe rumble must therefore be a Freel2 feature and not a fault!

Technician is going to talk to the area service support person for LR and get back to me if there is anything that might improve the level of mine to at least that of the demo car. In the meantime, I will monitor it to see if it gets any better or worse and drive round the 'hot spot' which is about 1750. Even if there is no quick fix, I have 3 years to go again under warranty if it gets any worse.

40 miles per gallon (7.06 l/100 km) and still loving it despite the rumble!

Chris Gone... 2013 XS TD4 Manual Firenze Red
Gone... 2008 (09MY) XS Td4 Manual Stornaway Grey
Prior... 2003 G4 Discovery 2, 1998 Disco 1 and 1997 Disco 1 Company car before that
Also gone in Nov'13, after 7.5 yrs, to new owners with time for more TLC - 1980 Series III 88
Current 2015 Discovery Sport HSE 2.0

I've now been out with the regional service advisor (Roger, who covers Sheffield to Shetland!). He picked it up as a body boom at 1650 or so in all gears, most noticed in 6th becuase its a cruising speed. He confirmed this by driver a demo car and juding mine as "typical"
There was an early technical bulletin advising lubrication of cables and he suggested this be done as a precautoin and just moving the cables may change the way they touch and (Possibly) trasnmit vibration to the body.

Done on Friday - little if any difference noticed so far. Got some miles to do this week so a reall chance to assess any change.

By the way - when cables lubricated, fuse taken from PTC heater pending arrival of replacement parts early in New Year - see my post in r"ecall???"

Chris Gone... 2013 XS TD4 Manual Firenze Red
Gone... 2008 (09MY) XS Td4 Manual Stornaway Grey
Prior... 2003 G4 Discovery 2, 1998 Disco 1 and 1997 Disco 1 Company car before that
Also gone in Nov'13, after 7.5 yrs, to new owners with time for more TLC - 1980 Series III 88
Current 2015 Discovery Sport HSE 2.0