2023 Range Rover Autobiography (L460)64% confident

New Range Rover kneeling overnight — and the network fault that was never the air spring

Left overnight, the car drops on one corner and logs a suspension fault — but only now and then, and it is always back to height by the time it reaches the ramp. A pressure-hold test on the suspect strut holds perfectly.

What the diagnosis found

Because the strut tested good, the platform widened the search and correlated the sag events with the vehicle's sleep/wake network log: the rear height sensor was dropping off the CAN bus during deep sleep, so the suspension ECU lost a corner reference and bled it down. The leak everyone was chasing did not exist.

Ranked probable causes

#1Intermittent rear height-sensor CAN dropout in sleep64%
Network / Air Suspension
#2Leaking rear air spring31%
Air Suspension
#3Valve block or EAS compressor fault18%
Air Suspension / Control

How the system reasoned

An overnight sag that a pressure-hold test cannot reproduce argues against a real leak. Because the strut held, the platform looked past the mechanical suspects to the network and caught a height sensor dropping off the bus in deep sleep — the true cause, and one a parts-led approach would have missed entirely.

64%
Confidence
~10 min
Time to diagnosis
5
Similar cases matched
✓ A "leaking air spring" that was actually a network dropout — diagnosed and fixed without replacing a single suspension part.

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