RE: Shed Of The Week: Land Rover Freelander
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Jim the Sunderer said:
Mismatched tyres- I bet the rear diff is disconnected like they all are.
KHC500070 - mounting for rear diff.I shall remember that part number forever. At my time at Land Rover when these were still new-ish we'd order one in for every single service as it was inevitably knackered.
We had more than one customer ask us about scrapping their car rather than fixing it after reading them three pages of work needed. Absolutely dire.
The wife has a 2005 HSE td and that is a crock of s
te, so I imagine this is gonna be a complete dog. We had the 1.8 petrol years ago and is was the single most unreliable mode of transport I have ever had the misfortune to own! Our current one is going soon thankfully. We've owned 2 discos and a V8 range rover and none of these gave any issues, but the freelander we have now! Top spec but hardly any of the toys work, the knocks and clucks from underneath are getting worse by the day and it has no go. A hateful thing indeed. I have a Y reg Mondeo as a work car and everything works, it is better to drive and I know it will get me where I want to go. Best left well alone!
te, so I imagine this is gonna be a complete dog. We had the 1.8 petrol years ago and is was the single most unreliable mode of transport I have ever had the misfortune to own! Our current one is going soon thankfully. We've owned 2 discos and a V8 range rover and none of these gave any issues, but the freelander we have now! Top spec but hardly any of the toys work, the knocks and clucks from underneath are getting worse by the day and it has no go. A hateful thing indeed. I have a Y reg Mondeo as a work car and everything works, it is better to drive and I know it will get me where I want to go. Best left well alone!OH Good god no!!! As much as I liked the basic design of these things and have had my eye drawn towards them a couple of times, they are just utter turd. Rather disappointed having got my days wrong yesterday, and whilst laying in my sick bed kept waiting for SOTW to appear, to now be presented with this. I've not even read it. Take it down, and start again.
B'stard Child said:
Yuck - I predict page two for the first positive comment as the bearded "one wife - leave it" brigade join up en mass to offer an alternative viewpoint on living with a LR Product
Ha, 2 minutes after your post and I have a beard.... but I'm not a beardie L-R fanatic.We had one - a 5 door V6. Before we bought it, we thought it was a mini Range Rover.
It turned out that after a couple of years of gentle use, it fell to pieces and was a complete piece of st.
Dreadful things. Best avoided. I think they also won the award for the most unreliable car in some recent survey.
If it's got 12 months MoT and you're feeling brave then buy it, expect it to break at some point, and at best get 12 months use before weighing it in.
It turned out that after a couple of years of gentle use, it fell to pieces and was a complete piece of s
t.Dreadful things. Best avoided. I think they also won the award for the most unreliable car in some recent survey.
If it's got 12 months MoT and you're feeling brave then buy it, expect it to break at some point, and at best get 12 months use before weighing it in.
no way, the only good bit is the removable back, and i think the 3 door frontera would be better for that.
4x4 under a grand question has only one answer.
http://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/2014...
4x4 under a grand question has only one answer.
http://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/2014...
If you want a grand's worth of 4x4, then Rav4.
Like this (even got similar part service history):
http://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/2014...
Like this (even got similar part service history):
http://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/2014...
This brings back some memories, I had a 2001 1.8 5 door and for the most part it was pretty reliable. Although it was a bit boat like you could chuck it around and feel the power shift backwards to push it out of corners. In the snow it was hilarious as the TC never seemed to kick in giving me my first taste of power oversteer in a road car. It was also brilliantly practical inside.
Alas, 2 years of reliability (random clonks from the rear diff aside) came to and end one morning when I went to start it and the engine had completely died. Even though my Primera GT is significantly quicker, handles better, is nearly as roomy and doesn't have as much of a drink problem I still look back fondly on my Freelander. Not sure I'd recommend anyone actually buy one though.....
Alas, 2 years of reliability (random clonks from the rear diff aside) came to and end one morning when I went to start it and the engine had completely died. Even though my Primera GT is significantly quicker, handles better, is nearly as roomy and doesn't have as much of a drink problem I still look back fondly on my Freelander. Not sure I'd recommend anyone actually buy one though.....
The only good thing I can say about this is that a mate of mine's dad had one, and came and rescued us from the town one December when it snowed so hard nothing 2wd was able to get up the hill into the village where he lived.
Actually, thinking about it, it broke down the next day from the stress, so perhaps that's not really a ringing endorsement.
Actually, thinking about it, it broke down the next day from the stress, so perhaps that's not really a ringing endorsement.
J4CKO said:
FFS will someone please find a Yugo 45 to draft in.
The Freelander's shockingly cheap nasty plastic interior was so bad it may have actually been modelled on the Yugo / Zastava 45.https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=yugo+zastava+45&...
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