Freelander TD4 cam chain

hard. Even the dearlers demo with 20miles on the clock. The 1st one covered 135,000 miles with only one major problem, which was a fuel pump failure.

Nigel

Thanks for the rely Nigel. I test drive 3 if not 4 before I bought this one, but can't say I noticed this chainey noise although having said this, never realy ran any of them any faster than tickover with the bonnet up. Glad to know i'm not the only one though. The engine iself is pretty quite, which I suppose highlights the chain noise. Other than this i'm very please with it. Off road, it also performes better than I had imagined.

Lofty

reminds me

It is odd that no one has brought this up, but here is my suspicion anyway.

This machine is a '96 and IIRC the TD4 might well have been a mere twinkle in LR's eye at that time. While not being sure of the timing, I suspect that engines of this vintage were Rover's own 2.0 engine which have belt driven injector pumps and valves. It is a fairly noisy engine compared to the BMW engine designated as TD4.

Huw

Sorry Huw, but I haven't just spent 12K on a vehicle and I don't know what engine it has in it! I is definalty a BMW built 2 Litre, twin cam, four valve, common rail diesel engine.

Lofty

"Lofty" >

LOL Fair enough. A whole lot of people just don't have a clue what is under the bonnet though. Does someone know when the BMW engine was introduced then? I remember test driving one of the first TD4 engined machines but cannot put a date on it. It feels like it was not going on eight years ago to me.

Huw

What - you mean there IS an engine under all that plastic in my Disco TD5 ! No sign of it when you lift the bonnet

Andrew Mawson

"Andrew Mawson" > >

Disco TD5 !

Maybe someone nicked it overnight and just left the plastic :-(

Huw

Hi Huw,

It wasn't eight years ago I'm sure. But then again, the OP never said it was a 1996 machine. He said his Disco was though. :-)

"Tim Hobbs" >

Aha. Ahem! Yes, I see what you mean. Maybe it is a new Freelander then? He did mention a warranty. Thank goodness. I thought I had amnesia and had lost two or three years of my life :-)

Huw

At 12K I'd guess it's just over three years old and come out of someone's lease.

Your right gent's... 12K bought me a Freebie Auto TD4 32K miles, first registered Dec 2000. Its got 12 months dealer warrenty. And yes, my Diso 300Tdi is a 1996 Built right in the midst of the mis-aligned cam pulley, but don't lets go their:-)

Nobodys told me if the sound my TD4 makes should remind me of a 1Lt Mini Metro my grandfarther used to own 15-20 years ago!

Lofty

Mines not noisy until about 3500-4000 Rpm (a little rattly),so I'd be getting it checked out to be on the safe side before you do even more damage if it does go bang. Could be just one of the tensioners.

Scotty '01 TD4

Urrrrr. Thanks for this advice Scotty, all be it not quite what I wanted to here:-)

Lofty

Sorry....:) but I think you'd perfer to hear it from me than that gut wrenching bang of valves and springs going south!! LOL

Like I said, from just above idle, you couldn't pick that mine was a diesel, then about 3500+Rpm there is a slight rattle from the chain. I don't hear it that often cause you don't need that many revs for these things to get cracking,I find 2500-3000 Rpm is the most you need and it performs the best.

Good luck, hope it's something simple to fix Scotty

Thanks for this Scotty. As i've said, its under dealer warrenty for the next

10 months, so i've got a while to sort it. I just need to know what i'm talking about before I approch the dealer. First up, i've got to get my head under the bonnet of another TD4 to compare the noise it makes. Don't know if i've mentioned before, but it has an auto box, not that that should make any difference.

Lofty

Another idea is to try some of the forums I use to ask around, like

Here are some sites that may help you too and this one,it's a really long URL so you may have to paste it together to make it work,but it has all the info. for the freelander, Hope this helps you out.

Scotty

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THT!