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Archive photo of a Solihull factory worker driving a finished 1.8 off the production line here:
when will the penny drop , drive train death
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Archive photo of a Solihull factory worker driving a finished 1.8 off the production line here:
Did the IRD make it too?
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Probably not, even if it did, sooner or later is will be fecked and you'll have to deal with LR customer services:
Archive photo of a Solihull factory worker driving a finished 1.8 off the production line here:
that's Sid...he used to work on the Marina rear nearside door handle line at Morris
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But its lost in spacething is...it's all on here!
you dunt need a new fred MHM and others have covered all this afore, the search button is your friend
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OK that's going into vinyl on the back of mine tout-suite!!!
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"Recall the Freelander? Are you mad?"
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This could explain it!
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A bmw petrol engine would have sorted this lot outArchive photo of a Solihull factory worker driving a finished 1.8 off the production line here:
A bmw petrol engine would have sorted this lot out
but it would conk out if it:-
a) saw water
b) saw snow
c) had to get over a speed bump
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but it would conk out if it:-
a) saw water
b) saw snow
c) had to get over a speed bump
d) then spontaneously combust
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Its a coop funeral van , trust me they did use them but not the 4x4 version with the drive train issues (mismatched tyres)
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Good question. We dun't actually know for sure. We don’t have enough evidence of tyre condition after failure.So what % is caused by mismatched tyres
Many who suffer problems with failed ird and/or rear diff also have possible vcu failure. Or at least a vcu which activates sooner than what we would expect. An active (read as locking up sooner) vcu will put a greater strain on the transmission whilst driving on tarmac. In time this will stress the transmission until something gives. Usually an expensive chunk of metal. Hence why MHM started the vcu fred. Theory being we would test our vcu’s and pool results to see what the general rule is. This hasn’t gone too well so far due to lack of results, but I hope my results post may tempt peeps into having a go and posting their own results.
Now to be fare there’s loads of Freelander owners out there who dun’t know of this problem. It dun’t seem to effect them, and they happily drive there Freelanders without fault. Hard to believe I know. Some will suffer failure and end up on ere only to find out why. So does that mean it only affects certain Freelanders? Are there factors involved which we don’t know realise are key to prolonging the life of a vcu? Yes there are.
I’ve been monitoring my vcu for a while. Done the One Wheel Up Test etc and have also measured the ratio of front to rear drive. I found my results to be different to the 0.8% previously thought, from rave. My thread over ere http://www.landyzone.co.uk/lz/f9/drive-ratio-198161.html covers what I did and also asks others to do the test and send me the results to compare via PM. We will then put this online to discuss. If I just put up my results anyone can say “yes abc turns is the same as what I get”. I’ve also filmed my marked props to see what they do when driving in a straight line. The result of this is quite interesting. It’s certainly changed my opinion of the whole vcu problem.
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