Freelander 2 DIY servicing
Discussion
I’ve bought a freelander 2 2.2 diesel and was wondering people’s opinions on how easily it can be serviced by a competent home mechanic? I’ve read up on changing the oil (sounds like a bit of a faff made much easier with appropriate tooling), but otherwise is there much to them? Any big routine jobs that are best left to a professional? I’ll get a Haynes manual in due course just for the specifics.
Excellent thank you!
I’ve already bought a 27mm flex head ratchet spanner so I think I’m covered. My plan is to give it a good service in January just to get familiar with it and then do annual services in January from then onwards - I’m not sure if it’s a DPF model or not (2009 2.2 XS) and it’ll only do 8k miles a year mostly 35 mile dual carriageway commutes so not expecting problems that’ll stop me doing just an annual service.
I’ve already bought a 27mm flex head ratchet spanner so I think I’m covered. My plan is to give it a good service in January just to get familiar with it and then do annual services in January from then onwards - I’m not sure if it’s a DPF model or not (2009 2.2 XS) and it’ll only do 8k miles a year mostly 35 mile dual carriageway commutes so not expecting problems that’ll stop me doing just an annual service.
Well I had a bit of a shock when I found the sump plug was cross threaded!! Luckily the sump threads cleaned after passing a tap through and bought a new sump plug, but was dreading having to change the sump!
The oil filter is just an awful bit of design in my opinion. A routine service item shouldn’t be any thing like that inaccessible, and whilst it’s been a while since I worked in a service centre, I don’t remember seeing anything as bad as that!
Couldn’t cobble together anything to fill the fuel filter before fitting it, will go and buy a hand primer and some hose then get that on at some point!
The oil filter is just an awful bit of design in my opinion. A routine service item shouldn’t be any thing like that inaccessible, and whilst it’s been a while since I worked in a service centre, I don’t remember seeing anything as bad as that!
Couldn’t cobble together anything to fill the fuel filter before fitting it, will go and buy a hand primer and some hose then get that on at some point!
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