Freelander 1 L-Series thoughts?
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Welcome to lz, 
why did you edit your last post, if yous both work for LR id have thought yous would
know a thing or two?? or get info from your place of work. (sorry just being noisy)
From what ive seen the td4 is a great engine what lets the fl1 down is the vcu, does the one your
looking at have a rear propshaft if not walk away. Put up a link for the vehicle an the team will help
you out. @Hippo knows a fing or 2 about them.
Njoy the forum
why did you edit your last post, if yous both work for LR id have thought yous wouldknow a thing or two?? or get info from your place of work. (sorry just being noisy)
From what ive seen the td4 is a great engine what lets the fl1 down is the vcu, does the one your
looking at have a rear propshaft if not walk away. Put up a link for the vehicle an the team will help
you out. @Hippo knows a fing or 2 about them.
Njoy the forum
Thanks for your reply! I work for Main dealer so can safely say we dont see many 20 year old vehicles when we are charging best part of £200 an hour for labourWelcome to lz,
know a thing or two?? or get info from your place of work. (sorry just being noisy)
From what ive seen the td4 is a great engine what lets the fl1 down is the vcu, does the one your
looking at have a rear propshaft if not walk away. Put up a link for the vehicle an the team will help
you out. @Hippo knows a fing or 2 about them.
Njoy the forum
I have heard good things about the TD4 engine but as the one I am looking at is an L-Series was hoping to get some advise from people that have owned them .Edit - hope this doesnt come across as rude and thank you for the welcome!
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Thanks for your reply! I work for Main dealer so can safely say we dont see many 20 year old vehicles when we are charging best part of £200 an hour for labour
Ah ive never had one so cant comment sorry, 200 quid an hour
im putting my prices up. That's ok
That's ok, thanks for the reply!! Yeah £200 an hour (or there abouts).. oh the stories I could tellAh ive never had one so cant comment sorry, 200 quid an hour
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Welcome to the madhouse. If the Freelander has all the bells and whistles it's a keeper as being an original. With idea of eventually be a classic due to age
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I can't imagine you've heard many good things about the TD4, at least about its reliability, as it's not great.
The L series is much more reliable, but not very powerful as standard.
However as above, if the engine has been maintained correctly, then 200k isn't a problem, however that's pretty much reaching the mileage limit of the rest of the vehicle, so it could well be tired.
Update - not that anyone asked for it.. but I bought it!!!!
It needs a bloody good clean but it's in really good condition. No rust, a CV gone but that's about all to report. The engine (as you all said) runs sweet as a nut. So thank you all for giving me the courage to make the jump!!
Here's to two puddles of oil on the drive!
It needs a bloody good clean but it's in really good condition. No rust, a CV gone but that's about all to report. The engine (as you all said) runs sweet as a nut. So thank you all for giving me the courage to make the jump!!
Here's to two puddles of oil on the drive!
