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Uneven Wear in Front Brakes - anyone else?
Check out my earlier thread about 15 posts earlier. “Burning smell coming thru heat vent” The brakes were seizing unevenly. -
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Uneven Wear in Front Brakes - anyone else?
Road crud will make the pads lock up. -
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Wear & Tear hvac knobs - door armrest
Thanks! I didn’t know this stuff existed. Duhh. Perfect for another application. Glad you posted this Frank -
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Burning smell coming thru heat vent
Getting back to the burning smell and dragging brake issue, my average mpg is up about 2mpg since I had all four brakes fixed. I might be imagining it, but the vehicle feels different. This is based on two more tankfuls of gas. Any more info on a tsb? Would the dealer service dept know? -
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Burning smell coming thru heat vent
Yeah, we’ve lived in Vermont for almost 40 years and never had this problem with any previous vehicle. I guess that’s why I didn’t think of it at first. I just drove down to NYC and I think my gas mileage is better by a couple miles/gal but it’s not a fair test since part of the trip was thru... -
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LR4 Mileage Poll
2016 LR4. Just turned 15K today. Only problem dragging brakes (see thread on burning smell coming thru heat vent) Frank -
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Burning smell coming thru heat vent
20 degrees? Try below zero. All our outdoor spigots are turned off and drained and hoses empty. Water wouldn’t get from the spigot to the nozzle in this weather. Do any of you guys wash your brakes regularly? On another happier note I drove from VT to NYC today, leaving my home early this A.M... -
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Burning smell coming thru heat vent
I bet it does to some degree. I took my LR4 to the same indie for its annual inspection and I asked them to look at the rear brakes while it was in the shop. The calipers weren’t releasing fully or moving smoothly in the tracks. Yep, they were rubbing lightly (no burning smell yet). This tells... -
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Burning smell coming thru heat vent
Are you suggesting that rodents are sabotaging my brakes? :D -
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Burning smell coming thru heat vent
That’s a very good point. My problem started some time after I drove my unit thru a lot of deep snow and slush. I wonder how many LRs are being driven with lightly dragging brakes and the owner isn’t aware of it? The whole mechanism looked very susceptible to getting hung up on road crud. -
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Burning smell coming thru heat vent
I can’t tell about brake dust. I’ve been driving in two inches of salty slush for a while. But the calipers were sticking. They showed me when they had the wheel off. And yes, I was told this is often asymmetric. The total bill for cleaning both front brakes, freeing up the calipers, making sure... -
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Burning smell coming thru heat vent
Ha! Just took it to local indie. On both front brakes the pads were binding. There was a lot of crud and salt and the pads weren’t moving freely. Caught it in time and rotors weren’t damaged. Frank Never heard grinding or squealing or any noise whatsoever. The binding must have been... -
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Burning smell coming thru heat vent
Holy crap! I drove home this AM and the burning smell was very strong. Had to shut off heat. Drove into garage and the garage filled with the smell. I felt the front brake rotors and they were scorching hot. The rear ones w ere barely warm I couldn’t touch the front ones, both sides. The... -
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Burning smell coming thru heat vent
Sorry, it doesn’t smell like cooked animal. It smells like rubber or insulation cooking. That’s what bothers me. Where is the outside air intake located for the heating system? Frank -
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Burning smell coming thru heat vent
Yeah, but it wasn’t made of rubber. Frank -
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Burning smell coming thru heat vent
It’s been real cold for a long time. Yesterday I briefly noticed a faint small, like burning rubber or insulation coming thru the heat vent. Today, after the engine got good and warm I noticed it again, but much stronger. On the way home it was again very strong, like insulation or rubber... -
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Voltmeter / USB charge port install
That’s a very slick-looking flush meter! Worth the effort. It certainly looks a lot nicer than my plug in Frank -
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Front tow hook. Removing plastic cover?
Thank you. I’ll give it another try when it warms up a bit. If it seves only a cosmetic function I’ll just leave it off Frank -
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Front tow hook. Removing plastic cover?
I have never before taken off the plastic shield that covers the front tow hook. I needed to this afternoon (don’t ask) and after giving each of the hold-downs a quarter turn as per manual it wouldn’t come off. I was afraid of breaking it I’m back in my garage but still can’t get the thing off... -
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Relocating to Stowe, Vermont. Service options ...
Curiously, the list doesn’t show Northern Motorsport in Wilder VT or NE Foreign Cars on the Woodstock Road in Hartford (White River Jnctn) Both are top-drawer and work on a lot of LRs Stay away from Land Rover Bedford. Dishonest Frank -
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Relocating to Stowe, Vermont. Service options ...
There’s a guy who restores LRs in Colchester. He might be able to recommend someone. He does not do service on recent vehicles. There’s New England Foreign Cars and also NE Foreign cars in Hartford but that a schlep (but not 200 miles). I go to these guys. Are there any in Canada? Frank -
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Voltmeter / USB charge port install
This might be easy to diagnose. Try putting another device in the receptacle to see if it’s working. If it is then it’s the little plug-in voltmeter that’s at fault. You can also switch the voltmeter to the other receptacle and see if that works. Frank -
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What's with JLR?/Defender rant
Excessive number of vehicles? Naaah. Vehicles are like shotguns-one can never have enough or too many! Frank -
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Voltmeter / USB charge port install
Thank you, Mike. Clear and concise! Frank
