Freelander sounds like a jack hammer ? Crank shaft pulley

Hi all, I am a newbie here on the forum, however I have viewed lots of threads before and all have been bang on the money for what's wrong with my little money pit!!!
So here is today's question. I parked up fine got back in vehicle sounds like a jack hammer when idle or decelerating below 30mph. From what I've found on here sounds like it might be crankshaft pulley? I had a new power stearing belt around 200 miles ago and garage stated on receipt they checked pulleys ( I have no reason to doubt them they'e been great in the past).
The garage is shut til Monday and this couldn't of come at a more inconvenient time as we only have one vehicle this week .....soooo...can I drive it and put up with the embaressment of everyone staring at me, or should it be looked at straight away, I worry about doing more damage.

If you are sure it’s the pulley, do not drive, it will only cause more damage

There are a variety of other things that can make a nasty clattery noise in time with the engine speed. For example a couple of bolts fell out of my power steering pulley a few months ago and although the pulley is located by a boss and at least one other bolt, it was noisy. Equally, we had a pulley breaking up on an alternator once and it was very noisy for a while. Nasty plastic pulley - we got the metal one off the discarded alternator and fortunately it fitted, so that was easily sorted. With this kind of problem, try the cheap things first before the expensive things.

The wife's Rover 75 made that noise, it has the bmw 2.0 TDI engine. It turned out to be the crank Pulley but we drove it for a few weeks before getting it fixed. No harm done.

Col

Welcome to the forum

Im also new just replaced a crank pulley on my freelander the noise got worse the hotter the car got like a tapping noise went away when i accelerate check the pulley just see if it wobbles if so thats your problem its located under the wheel arch cover

Gary616 said:

Im also new just replaced a crank pulley on my freelander the noise got worse the hotter the car got like a tapping noise went away when i accelerate check the pulley just see if it wobbles if so thats your problem its located under the wheel arch cover

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Welcome to the forum

Hippo said:

Welcome to the forum

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Welcome to you to, are you new? As there's another member with a similar username to yours but they're nowhere near as polite

Marmaduke said:

Welcome to you to, are you new? As there's another member with a similar username to yours but they're nowhere near as polite

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Yes I'm new to landyzone as well. My first day here.