Freelander steering noise

[alfaspiderman2]

Hoping someone can diagnose the latest Freelander 'fault'.

At slow speeds, with the steering on right hand lock there's a loud groaning (almost like a cow mooing)sound coming from the engine bay

Any bright ideas what it could be? (There's plenty of power steering fluid btw as even I can check that)

As the car is up for replacement soon I want to get an idea before I decide whether it's worth repairing.

(The car's a 2001 75k mile TD4 by the way)

Cheers

[budrover]

are you holding the steering wheel 'hard over'....or does it make the noise as soon as you start to turn right normally

[alfaspiderman2]

it doesn't happen with a small ammount of lock but occurs before I'm totally hard over

making anything more than a 60 degree turn say

[BLUETHUNDER]

Do you feel it snatching back through the steering as well on lock?

[alfaspiderman2]

BLUETHUNDER said:

Do you feel it snatching back through the steering as well on lock?

No