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.)
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.)
