Steering knock/knotch when turning steering wheel quarter turn either direction

Freelander 2 HSE 2007 ~34'000 miles......has started to feel a slight knock when turning steering wheel one quarter turn or less in either direction and a knotch is felt through the steering wheel as well as low audio knock.

Land Rover main dealer says it's the suspension strut top mounts and replacement is £485 :-(

I had suspected steering rack ( novice alert ! )....which would have been nicely covered by my Land rover extended warranty but these struts are not.

Anybody else had this? My local non franchised Land Rover garage suspects this is expensive and does not sound like suspension struts and that it could be steering rack also.

How can both struts become simultaneously defective/worn at identical time when they are independent ( again novice alerts ! ).

Bollocks is it the top mounts, more than likely a drop link, 9 out of 10 times it will be...they're about 20 quid each and an hour labour to change!

There was a problem with swarf in the power steering system, and that would trash the seals in the rack and cause problems. Not a lot of info on LZ about, but have a look on freel2.com, loads of info on there. Hope you get it sorted.

Duncp73 said:

There was a problem with swarf in the power steering system, and that would trash the seals in the rack and cause problems. Not a lot of info on LZ about, but have a look on freel2.com, loads of info on there. Hope you get it sorted.

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Agreed.....although it also led to a noisey power sterling pump followed by it failing and if they changed the pump and didn't change the filter it would soon knacker the new pump. Have a look at the drop links as suggested though as it may be something that simple.

Land rover dealer resolved by fitting 2 x strut top mount plates ( LR part LR032578).

Total part costs £54
Labour £344

Total cost £478.12 inc VAT

It fixed the steering knotch and knock. I can't comment on how hard a job it is to change these but that's a whack of labour!