A good news story on a petrol Freelander

I bought a cheap petrol Freelander 1.8 to get me through the winter, it came with a short MOT but drove well so I bought it.

I gave it a full service, fitted new rear brake cylinders, and a couple of brake pipes then used it as my daily runner. Due its purchase price I kept expecting to find the reason why it was cheap but instead it was totally reliable - I even started to trust it

MOT time came and it passed without an advisory and its doing 30 mpg minimum. I am going to miss it now its in storage for the summer.

Is this a dream

Mantamad said:

I bought a cheap petrol Freelander 1.8 to get me through the winter, it came with a short MOT but drove well so I bought it.

I gave it a full service, fitted new rear brake cylinders, and a couple of brake pipes then used it as my daily runner. Due its purchase price I kept expecting to find the reason why it was cheap but instead it was totally reliable - I even started to trust it

MOT time came and it passed without an advisory and its doing 30 mpg minimum. I am going to miss it now its in storage for the summer.

Is this a dream

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Nope......Its a piece of ****.

juiceyv8 said:

Nope......Its a piece of ****.

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Oi you - dont you be nasty about my piece of ****

Mantamad said:

I bought a cheap petrol Freelander 1.8 to get me through the winter, it came with a short MOT but drove well so I bought it.

I gave it a full service, fitted new rear brake cylinders, and a couple of brake pipes then used it as my daily runner. Due its purchase price I kept expecting to find the reason why it was cheap but instead it was totally reliable - I even started to trust it

MOT time came and it passed without an advisory and its doing 30 mpg minimum. I am going to miss it now its in storage for the summer.

Is this a dream

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8th wonder of the world I reckon, lucky you!
Land Rovers that are going well are usually about to break so don't count your chickens.......

give it time, it will bite

My petrol Freelanders doing ok at the moment too.

Hippo said:

My piece of **** is doing ok at the moment too.

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Mantamad said:

I bought a cheap petrol Freelander 1.8 to get me through the winter, it came with a short MOT but drove well so I bought it.

I gave it a full service, fitted new rear brake cylinders, and a couple of brake pipes then used it as my daily runner. Due its purchase price I kept expecting to find the reason why it was cheap but instead it was totally reliable - I even started to trust it

MOT time came and it passed without an advisory and its doing 30 mpg minimum. I am going to miss it now its in storage for the summer.

Is this a dream

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I hope you left the handbrake off............leavin it alone for all that time on it's own it'll think of ways to make you pay, i'd want to be taking it out once a week/fortnight else like hippo says it'll bite back ....and usually where you keep your wallet

I know it may bite me for making such a statement but hopefully it will have forgotten by the time it's back on the road

I owned a T reg 1.8 for 3 years with no problems. They are not all bad. You will always hear more about the bad stories than good ones.

As i've said many times before, my 1.8 is fine, i've replaced the clutch and the head gasket with related paraphernalia and i've spent quite a bit of time fettling it. The upside is that the fixes are generally cheap and easy to sort out and you'd expect some issues from a car that's done 110K. I've done some thinking about the economics of owning one. It cost me £300 and a weekend to sort out the HG failure and a few hundred to sort out the other issues. I reckon that if you buy one for £1500 and spend £500 and a few months fettling it you can get a fairly decent car. Obviously it's never going to be a Honda CR-V or x-trail and you don't pay the price of one of those.
The issue really is that once i've got it working fine, I won't want to get rid of it. haha