Jagfpacejk said:
Barthog said:
Yes definitely told it was Lubricant,
June16 confirms this is correct as I was unsure myself!
I had asked were the seams separated and told no just lubricant applied.
As suggested I will ask for the report and full details.
Thanks for the responses.
It may well hide the noise but for how long, ask them if they have had or seen this issue before themselves.
As above I would be surprised if it's not a short term fix and your be back, if the two seems rubbing is making the noise I can not see lubricant working, as stated if they are meant to be a tight no moving bond then you would not expect to see the factory using lubricant.
Good luck and keep us posted.
Agree there is no lubricant used in production, it's down to panel clearance, tolerance of gaps and thickness of e-coat applied on dipping the car, and sealent tracks. The lubricant won't last forever. I guess getting some sort of extended warranty on that specific fix might be worth chasing?
The DS issue manifested itself in the B Pillars , right next to your ear. It used to either tick on rough ground when steering input caused flex, or creak on uneven ground. It was more predominant in hot areas as expansion made the issue show up. Googling discovery sport B pillar tick is an eye opener .
It took nearly 3 years , a lot of unhappy customers who had cars basically vandalised by repair shops. But there are still many DS vehicles out there that this can materialise on, we all dreaded the thought of the size of the bill if this appeared when out of warranty.
Here is the fix in production we gleaned from LR only last month. The paint flow mentioned is the coat. It's the same type of process,
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From JLR:
"Further to my previous post I have been liaising further with the engineering team who have advised the below.
"Having investigated a number of vehicles that exhibited the noise, we determined that there were several factors that contributed to multiple noise sources (although they sounded like a single tick in most cases).
In addition to the changes made to the welds on the seat-belt reinforcement panels, we made very subtle changes to the press tools to make slight dimensional changes to a number of panels. Additionally, we re-positioned a number of welds and we extended and tuned the sealer path which changed the characteristics of the paint flow.
We developed specialised, additional end-of-line testing which allowed us to find issues in plant and we put a large number of vehicles through this test without a failure before we were confident that we could release the Assured VINs. As it is understood that the noise tends to manifest itself at higher temperatures, we also put cars through our hot test chamber on a continuous basis and completed the hot climate testing on more than 300 cars before we released the Assured VINs.
Finally, we have a number of markets where the higher temperatures and more arduous road conditions resulted in a much higher failure rate than in other territories. There have been no noises on cars past the Assured VINs in these territories."
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