While driving somewhere in between 15-25 miles an hour, with no warning whatsoever, my 2005 land rover range rover locked up immediately and made a horrible grinding sound. The car froze up and would not proceed forward and I am assuming because I was accelerating and brought to an abrupt stop, the car then started to shake. I put the car in park and went back into drive, only for the car to immediately make that loud horrible grinding sound again. The car was not drivable in the drive position, or reverse. I had to put it into neutral and push it home. I just would like to note that the safety of myself and passenger could have been put in jeopardy because I did just exit the freeway before this happened. I also would like to state that this problem should be recalled, as I have already found many websites complaining of this issue. I could have been injured and hope that someone investigates this matter.
2005 Land Rover Range Rover transmission complaints
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Failure of front differential on 2005 range rover, well documented problems with this component on the vehicle but no safety recall as of yet. Immobilized vehicle on extremely busy interstate (i35) in dallas causing significant traffic backup, over $2k in repair cost.
Around 12 am on 2/21/08 I was driving down interstate 29 south near platte city mo at speeds around 70-75 miles per hour. As I was passing another car my 2005 range rover started making a loud grinding sound and started slow down. I got to the side of the road and it would although I pressed on the gas the truck would not move. The dealer told me the front differential and drive train broke and they are looking for parts since this is a national backorder. It has not yet been repaired and the old parts will be put on it when available.
Front differential failure. No prior warning. Failed on freeway at freeway speed, 65/MPH to 70/MPH. Truck completely disabled. No power from engine to wheels. I was barely able to change lanes and get to shoulder of freeway (coasting) without causing accident. Land rover paid for repair under warranty. Dealer provided loaner for duration of repair.
Oct. 5, 2007 at 8am- my family and I were riding on I-94w, 100 miles from home, at approx. 65mph, and there was a grinding noise. Then suddenly the vehicle lost power. Luckily we made it partially to the side of the road. Vehicle was immediately towed by state tow, because location of vehicle was unsafe, to the nearest dealer 20 min away. Because I was at 56k miles dealer required me to pay for rental. Two days later on monday, diagnosis was front differential failure. Then after differential was fixed dealer said the transfer case was bad. Latest, as of today, 26 days later, I am still waiting for transfer case to be fixed, which will not be in until nov. 8th. Still renting a mini van, paying $30/day for rental, and paying my range rover note.
Driving under normal driving conditions without any undue stress on the vehicle the front differential stripped out and my vehicle completely lost power to the wheels. Land rover is now replacing the front differential but has made no technical modifications to prevent this from occurring again.
Front differntial failure.
Front differntial failure.
Last sunday, I was traveling in the 2005 range roveron an interstate 100 miles from my home. The transission suddenly failed & I had to be towed to the dealer near my home. On monday I sopke to the dealership that told me the problem without even looking at the car there was a defect in the original design of the limited slip differential, and they were ordering the part and renting me a car. On further discussion the service department told me that they have a reworked replacedment, and it should not happen again. They also told me that they were getting at least one car a week with the same problem. *ak if this is something that they know about, why are they only fixing it after the fact. There could be serious injury to other drivers who suddenly have this power loss. I was lucky.
I thought you might be interested to know that my 2005 rr (30000 kms - build date 01/05) td6 is currently having the differentail and prop shaft replaced. The car has been making a grinding noise when moving forward at a slow pace gradually getting worse over the past few weeks. This noise will only occur when the vehicle is in gear (d) and only when traveling very slowly, the noise disappears when neutral is selected even while the vehicle is still rolling. The front prop shaft seal (transmission end) has also failed and leaking oil. Three months ago the air compressor was replaced as the original failed.
While traveling 50 MPH on feeder of I-10, heard a loud noise with instant wheel locking, gained control and pulled over as I had no power. Cpu said to select neutral which I did. Attempted to put in drive and heard a loud screeching noise although the car would not move. Called tow truck and had it towed to dealership who diagnosed problem as differential and drive shaft. Service advisor said we have had multiple with this problem. Got online and discovered problem has happened multiple times. Car is a 2004 range rover hse.
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