Chat & Social > The Bar - General Chat

Come on - own up...

<< < (4/4)

Gordo:

--- Quote from: wvanman on July 30, 2009, 07:29:45 ---the Mrs wanted a Freelander    but was swayed away from them by my local mechanic/garage (who do lots of Landrover servicing and repairs)  His words were "stay away from them unless you want it more times in the garage than on the road"    and he knows best (20 years in the trade)

--- End quote ---

This is something that I find a lot of people saying, but when pressed they can't actually offer a rational explanation. The early Freelanders did have issues, especially the 1.8 petrol, but BMW solved most of that and they're pretty good now.

From asking around, people who've owned them love them; people who haven't, hate them because other people say they're bad. :?  When I take mine off road, people expect it to get stuck at the first sign of mud and seem surprised when, of course, it breezes through.

Get a good condition Td4 and you'll be fine. After all, it's a Land Rover and they have character :)

carbore:
Freelander pre thermostat move on the K-series were HGF prone (almost a certainty). After that, not that bad, I had people tell me every car I have ever heard of is a bag of trouble.

Jap= Bits are expensive mate
German = Nice mota, try to find one for the right price though
British = Rover was rubbish, unisons on strike all the time never finished a car properly
American = Thirsty and no good on corners
Italian = rust
Frenh = made of tin cans
etc
Etc
etc
etc

Disco Matt:
I often suspect that Land Rovers get better as they age.

See, when my parents bought the Disco (that has now passed on to me) the magazines were full of 300 TDI cam belts failing prematurely. I can remember asking the dealer to check whether it was one of the affected chassis numbers as LR issued a repair kit. But now all I see mentioned is "check for rust and general wear". The dodgy ones have either been fixed or broken for spares to keep the good ones alive. I suspect that the same goes for P38A Range Rovers with their infamous electrics and cylinder liners, and Freelanders with their IRD/viscous coupling/electrics.

I'd give a Freelander serious thought, although I'd want a softback turbo diesel with an auto gearbox and hill descent control, along with a lift kit, a load of underbody protection and the biggest A/Ts that would fit!  :lol:

Range Rover Blues:
We looked at buying a freebie before SWMBO got the TDi, my mates in the trade warned me and TBH everything they said came true.  The awful droning in the back that can never be fixed, the ride quality, the dubious tyre wear, I just didn't like the ones we could afford and the TD4s were stupid money, only to have one go the same way before we could hope to pay for it.

So we bought another RRC and now we have junior we're damn glad of it.

Navigation

[0] Message Index

[*] Previous page