Hello all, I have had a search of the forum but I can't find anything which I think really covers the current issue i'm having. I'll give you the low down of the problems and any advice will be greatly received so thankyou in advance. I have only owned the car just under 4 weeks and it is covered under warranty from the garage I bought it from, they are having it next Thursday to get to the bottom of it. The car is a 2007 IS220d on 66000 miles.
Ok, so a really noticable, almost hair on your legs sort of tickly, vibration has reared it's head when the car is on tickover. You can feel it through the drivers seat and also just by touching the drivers door. I have leant over and touched various parts of the car on the passenger side (including the door) and I can't feel any vibration at all. It's definately seems to be present only on the drivers side. Also in the drivers foot well you can feel it, with your feet flat on the floor in the footwell you can feel a very tickly prominant vibration.
Also something I have noticed only recently, is when sat stationary with the car ticking over and not in gear, you can induce a noticeable change of tone in the engine just by pressing and releasing the clutch pedal? Is this really normal and what would cause it?
When in gear and sat stationary on tickover (i.e sat at a junction in first gear waiting to pull away) the gear stick can be prone to getting rather "excited" shall we say, this is something I've only noticed today. I apologise for the crudeness, but if Ann Summers could replicate this in a s*x toy I have absolutely no doubt it would be a best seller!
Now on the first sign which indicated a problem might be developing somewhere. A very harsh judder when pulling away in first gear. The more revs you give the car the more prominant the judder, if you pull away slowly and really nurse the clutch you can prevent the juddering but once you've experienced the juddering a few times you can tell exactly when it's going to happen and you can almost control it through your driving if that makes sense? It's no problem at all replicating it.
The engine also sounds louder with a more "Tractor" type sounding note to it. Not a rattly sound, more like a loose sounding clacking? I am sort of thinking there could be an engine mount issue, so if anybody has experienced an engine mount issue and could inject a better description of what i'm trying to describe please feel free! :-)
The performance feels like it's suffering as well but I don't know if thats because perhaps the engine is making more noise than it should so it gives the illusion/feeling that you should be going faster.
Also I was in a multi storey car park the other day and i'm sure the clutch slipped on me, is there anyway I could check if the clutch was on it's way out without causing unnecessary wear and tear?
There is also this incredibly annoying squeak which has developed in the base of the drivers seat. Going around corners or round abouts, getting in and out the car, pulling the handbrake on etc, all cause the seat to squeak and creak in a similar way to what you'd expect from a badly assembled DSF sofa. It's almost like something has collapsed in the base of the drivers seat.
Like I mention earlier, any help or advice is much appreciated and I will be very grateful :-) ...and yes I do currently feel like i've bought a lemon...
