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| blackwolf Member Since: 03 Nov 2009 Location: South West England Posts: 17962   
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Not normal and I suggest requires diagnosing.
The only way in which I can imagine this happening is if the body is flexing and that in turn suggests the chassis is flexing. If the chassis is flexing I suspect that there is a serious flaw with the chassis. I'd be checking the chassis very closely for rot around the rear cross-member. |
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22nd Sep 2025 2:42pm |
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| BuckBlu110 Member Since: 19 Apr 2014 Location: in the pub Posts: 736 
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Does not sound right at all. I’ve done a lot of towing with horse boxes with various 110’s and have never encountered anything like that.
As BW suggested, I would give the chassis and body fixings a thorough inspection. |
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22nd Sep 2025 3:48pm |
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| Dinnu Member Since: 24 Dec 2019 Location: Lija Posts: 3620  
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This is even weirder, but as stated earlier, this normally happens when chassis flexes a bit as the body has to follow. It does happen when a Defender is cross axled, as the chassis is not infinitely stiff. My 90s always did it, just enough to notice. Do you have a spare wheel on the door? Was the ground flat? 1988 90 Hard Top, 19J Diesel Turbo, Shire Blue - Restoration ongoing 2012 90 CSW, 2.2TDCI, Santorini Black |
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22nd Sep 2025 6:38pm |
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| Andyslandytd5 Member Since: 06 Nov 2021 Location: Southampton Posts: 86 
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I backed the Landy up on some car ramps and rolled around on a creeper last night. I had a good poke around and found nothing of concern. There was some peeling paint around weld seems etc but I poked around with a screwdriver and there was only surface rust (a chassis treatment is on the cards soon).
Only thing I can think is that I don’t think I was parked on level ground so may hay have been just enough to twist the chassis. I took a few photos of the latch from the inside of the car last night. The Blue Arrow shows the part of the door latch that was catching on the door frame part of the latch (Red Arrow, Striker?) When shut normally the door does not rest on the door frame latch at the bottom as you can see a gap (green arrow). There is only a few millimetres gap and it was not catching here so it must have only been a small amount of movement. I will do some more investigation when I put the trailer on again next to make sure nothing sinister is going on.  Click image to enlarge 2015 Puma 2.2 110 XS Utility Station Wagon - 2024 - Present 2004 TD5 90 XS Station Wagon - 2019-2024 2003 TD5 90 G4 LE - 2009-2010 1990 Ninety 6.2 V8 Station Wagon - 2006-2009 |
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23rd Sep 2025 10:26am |
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