Hi guys. I've recently bought a 65 plate RR 4.4SDV8 Autobiography 90k miles on the clock. After parking it overnight with the suspension in normal setting. Sometimes the front suspension is on its lowest setting in the morning!

Is there a nightmare awaiting me?

Any information will be great.

Many thanks
Anton

Sounds like a leak from the airbags, raise it to off road height, you may be able to hear it.... with the engine off obviously...!! Pete
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2014 L405 Autobiography SDV8 4.4 Loire Blue Ebony interior
2012 L322 Autobiography 5.0 Supercharged Ipanema Sand Sold
2011 L322 Vogue SE 4.4 TDV8 Baltic Blue. Sold
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Oh, and it's a "now" problem, the compressor will be working overtime to keep air in the system, leave it too long and you will need a new one...!! Pete
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2014 L405 Autobiography SDV8 4.4 Loire Blue Ebony interior
2012 L322 Autobiography 5.0 Supercharged Ipanema Sand Sold
2011 L322 Vogue SE 4.4 TDV8 Baltic Blue. Sold
2002 L322 Vogue 4.4 V8 Epson Green (Fatty Offroader) Sold
-Click for Project Fatty off roader-

Thanks for the sound advice! I'm now on the case.

I have almost the same car and there is an option out have it automatically lower to access mode upon parking.

Make sure it's not this happening first!

I'm not convinced it's that because it's only the front that lowers. I will check though!
Thanks.

I just bought my first Range Rover, an L405 and it was set to lower when the car was in park. It drove me nuts. I was able to disable that feature.

Ummmm, there are 2 schools of thought on this:

One is, disabling “Access Height” (as it’s called) saves wear & tear on suspension airbags, by stopping them continually being moved up & down.

The other is, enabling Access Height saves wear & tear on the airbags being concentrated in one place, by continually being moved up and down.

Take your pick!

Gremlins’ expert advice? Sometimes do both, and sometimes do neither!

You will notice the front first, because you’re staring at the bonnet (hood) and by the time you’ve watched that in an almost trance-like state, you’ll have completely missed what your rear end was doing!  “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it” -where’s the fun in that?

I’ve got auto access off on my 405 and D5. Drives me up the wall. I leave it off and make sure to raise and lower the suspension often so as to give the bags and compressor something to do!

Does sound like a leak for the OP, hopefully you can locate it, ages back I had the same thing on my 322 it was a front bag which had sprung a leak in the folds. There is nothing that can't be fixed with a hammer😜😜
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Well Gremlin. After reading your post , things are much clearer to me now, it makes so much sense. Now I'm in a trance like state:)

I think I will turn auto access height off too, it drives me nuts, if I had one airbag leaking? Would both sides lower? Because both my front wheels lower when this happens.

you parked on a slope? sometimes the FF will try and level .. ... - .- -.




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Gremlin500 wrote:

Ummmm, there are 2 schools of thought on this:

One is, disabling “Access Height” (as it’s called) saves wear & tear on suspension airbags, by stopping them continually being moved up & down.

The other is, enabling Access Height saves wear & tear on the airbags being concentrated in one place, by continually being moved up and down.

Take your pick!

Gremlins’ expert advice? Sometimes do both, and sometimes do neither!

Potential problem ahead? Solved!

I had a diagnosis for my RR today, it's a predictable RR Gremlin .

No airbags leaking.
No compressor issue.

Thanks for your advice chaps, I'm sure I will return soon with another conundrum.

Over and out!

Anton