I posted recently about a very problematic (but intermittent) rattle coming from sometimes one, occasionally two front doors on my Defender 110 CSW, 2005.

The vehicle - from which the driver's-side front door lock actually fell out into the street, on opening the door after taking it off-road, a week after I bought it new - is still under guarantee, but Landrover seem unable to do anything about the rattle problem. (I don't know how hard they've tried or what they've done, but I am unwilling to live with the problem.)

Actually, it's a kind of rattle plus vibration (no problem on tarmac, but problem on anything even slightly rough). When I lean back and put my ear to the door pillar, the rattling is very obvious, but I suppose that being amplified, presumably, inside the pillar, it would be (obvious).

I don't think it's wiring or cable on metal: not that sort of sound. Definitely something heavier. Surely it can't be door on door-frame? Whatever it is, it's a really major irritant.

Anyone had this with their Defender, and how was it solved? (Yeah, I know, buy a Landcruiser instead. But surely the Brits -I am one - could have sorted out this sort of thing by now.)

nope - its a landrover.

I wud be inclined to take it back once more and say "fix it - or else I am taking it elsewhere and giving you the bill"

mite make em sit up a bit?

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Having reflected more on the noise and listened to it again, I want to say that there's also an element of creaking in there. Sort of rattle + creak + vibration.

The window runner on mine has broken off, which means window rattles in the frame, but usually when it is open. Although, the runner bit that broke had fallen out through the bottom of the door, so it could be that that is rattling. How old is the landy?