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Unreliable, Fragile Freelanders

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Saffy:
I been looking at insurance write off freelanders at auction but nothing here convinces me I could repair at home in the same way I could do a proper landrover (ones with round headlamps). I am not even sure I could swap out a dead engine with a different model one from the freebie range because nothing is written about such things, just the usually 'what extras can I bolt on" pap and the "I can go anywhere as long as there no ruts above x inch" "look at my pretty photos of my freebie doing so well".  :evil:

V8MoneyPit:
This, of course, applies to all 'modern' cars. Will we ever see the DIY rebuild of an S class Mercedes? I suspect not. The complexity built in to cars to meet type approval makes it increasingly difficult to maintain a vehicle without special equipment. I deal with basic maintenance on our Freelander and have fitted a lift kit to help it's off road ability (it does get used 'properly' BTW). I have, however, little interest in rebuilding one.

Is there yet any point in rebuilding a write off Freelander when perfectly good ones are readily available at little money. This applied to 'proper Land Rovers', as you call them, years ago when they were plentiful and cheaply available. Now good ones are getting thin on the ground, it becomes more viable to rebuild knackered ones.

Whether this will ever happen with todays cars remains to be seen, but I doubt it will happen on the same scale simply because of the complexity of the vehicles in question.

morson4x4:
softlanders sorry i mean freelanders have improved greatly from there early models like the 1.6 or 1.8 i think it is had its known problems of head gasket failure but the newer freelander 2 has been given really good reviews

V8MoneyPit:
Not sure there ever was a 1.6 was there?

littlepow:
Can't see why you couldn't rebuild a freelander, in one of the comics a Disco 3 has been rebuilt from a front end smash.

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