Hello & Help required.

Woz said:

I have had the Car serviced twice this year, once in the UK before going on a 1500 mile raod trip and when i got to Serbia after the road trip. Both Mechanics have said that the Conversion job was a good one, the only thing that was not changed was the Wipers. but that i can live with.

If i end up going to an offical Landrover Service i will ask them to check it too.

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Diesel Do said:

It might look good but it only takes a plastic hose being bent the wrong way to snap then this can happen! It may well look nice and neat and well done but it doesn't mean you can see everything! Plus its only an educated guess based on info given
Been a mechanic for twenty years so my educated guesses aren't normally too bad

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dave21478 said:

If you bought this in UK from a group of Polish guys who do these conversion regularly and often have them on ebay, be VERY careful and have the car fully inspected by someone who knows about Freelanders. I looked at two different cars which turned out to have been done by them and one was a death-trap and the other was merely a shonky bodge job.

The death-trap one had a LHD steering rack from a different make (it looked like an Opel Vectra rack) fitted, using brackets and adaptors made from old bits of metal shop shelving and penny washers.
The second one had a proper LHD rack, but the wiring and plumbing was a birds-nest of scotchlocks and twist-n-tape joins with randomly cut bits of loom and pipe sticking out everywhere.

In the end, I bought RHD and converted it myself. Its not that hard.

Some chap on another landrover forum got stung by them - cost him a fair bit to have it put right.

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Singvogel said:

Hi Woz,

Hvala Bogu - jeftini popravak.

You must be happy - a cheap repair.

As you say best to get everything checked by someone who knows freelanders though.

Wise decision.

Singvogel.

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