Another freelander lift post

Iv been looking into lifting my freelander i have seen the 40mm and 50mm lift kits but does any one no if there is a coil over and shock lift kit available seems like every who has done it is only using spacers on their stock suspension

In a nutshell the answer is no, not unless you have very deep pockets.... I looked into this very same thing a while ago and was unable to find an off theshelf kit containing longer springs/shocks/struts. However I did find one thing out, seemingly the Freelander struts bare a resemblence to ford focus struts, and seemingly it would be possible to make ford focus coilover units "Fit" a freelander, with a bit of precision fabrication...(read mega £££)

And another things I forgot to mention, part of the rational of doing the "body lift" spacers type of lift kit is that while you put the vehicle two inches higher, and improve ground clearance approach, departure and rampover angles not to mention the overall "stance" / appearance of the vehicle, you don't change the position on the springs and shocks that the vehicle rides on so you dont actually change the day to day driving characteristics all that much. you literally have only made it higher up - assuming you use the camber pins the vendors of these spacers recommend to put your camber back to rights so as to negate the lifted vehicle's new found negative camber and its disastrous effects on handling and tyre wear.

It will probably surprise you just what a freelander - even at standard ride height - with bigger knobbly tyres is actually capable of. My freelander runs 225/75/16 (29" diamater) Kumho KL71 very agressive very sticky mud tyres [Standard wheel size on a freelander 1 is 215/70/16 - 26" diameter] - so theres an inch and a half of extra ground clearance not to mention the improve capabilities of the tyres compared to the standard road tyres the vehicle comes with. With just the tyres I can get my freelander places that her discovery 1 300tdi wtih BFG all terrains can't get even with centre diff lock engaged....

Ok good to know it is a daily driver so fabricating and instaling custom springs and struts is not going to happen tires and the body lift is probably the best i can hope for are those the biggest you can fit even with the 40mm spacers ??

That's about as big as it gets without cutting bodywork. Even then you are going to want to look at spacers to ensure you clear the shock mount and wheel arch inners.

I also looked at springs rather than spacers and came to the same conclusions as Jayridium.

The limiting factor for fitting large wheel/ tyre combos is the spring seat on the shocks. There isn't much clearance, even when stand wheel sizes are used. To over come this problem, wheel spacers are sometimes fitted.
I've thought about cutting the spring seat off it's welds and rewelding further up the tube. There is however an element of risk as the struts are gas pressurised.

I got 16" steel modulars so I didn't need spacers on mine

Iv just found a company that says they have "suspension lifts" for the freelander 1 but they dont specify if it a body lift i.e spacers on the shock tower or an actual full suspension lift kit will post the reply when it comes back

The price will be a clue... less than or around £200 for the kit it is spacers, more than £750 (at a guess) will be bespoke coilovers.