Freelander 1 Freelander Knocking

kernowsvenski said:

I'll give that a try at an opportune moment, although I suspect a front strut for that one.

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When I did my front struts I found the strut race had collapsed so had to spend more getting those parts as well

kernowsvenski said:

The diff was "thumping" on a heavy gear change (mine's an auto). That has gone now but the knock I describe above definitely feels like a suspension or subframe issue. Like some of the posts above, it occurs on patches of road with the surface course missing, pot holes etc, but also when coming off speed cushions/humps.

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Pop the wishbone rear snubber bush buffer washer off so you can see the bush. You might well find it has split where the inner section is moulded in. Here was the offside bush on mine. The split doesn't look much when static, but the inner tube came out easily when pulling the bush out.
The nearside was also split, but had come away from the outer housing instead of the inner like the offside.
Replacing the wishbones and large bushes cured all those annoying knocks on small hard surface imperfections.

Thanks @Nodge68 . However, the front of the car can wait for a bit though so I'll look at the wishbones later this year.. I shall be investigating the heavier knock at the back first. It seems more pressing. I suspect the subframe/chassis issue but the knock seems to be on the left rather than the seemingly more common right hand side - and mine is a late model FL1 so it could be something else.

At some point I'm going to work my way around doing all the bushes that I can anyway I expect.

Fuel tank cradle disintegrated???

rob_bell said:

Fuel tank cradle disintegrated???

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Despite much of the plate being gone on the driver's side, the cradle looks structurally sound. I'll be having a proper poke around though one eve this week so it'll get double checked.

kernowsvenski said:

Despite much of the plate being gone on the driver's side, the cradle looks structurally sound. I'll be having a proper poke around though one eve this week so it'll get double checked.

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I blame the Chinese for all this knocking !
Someone, somewhere must be laughing all the way to the bank, making nasty cheap components and flogging them to us !
Guess I'm lucky in that as mine shakes and rattles so much, I can't hear any knocking.
For so called tough off road ish vehicles, they seem very fragile to me.
I'm sad to read here that L R came third from bottom in Spains least reliable car recently.

Its them gas guzzling rust buckets dragging the marque down. Freelanders aren't to bad and definitely best of the old "Premier Automotive Group" bunch...

https://www.whatcar.com/news/reliability-survey-7/



Check out that reliability of the RRS - 14.5%

If you go back to the F1, they were right up there according to government stats...

Freelander 2005...

Toyota (Hilux) 2005...

GrumpyGel said:

Its them gas guzzling rust buckets dragging the marque down. Freelanders aren't to bad and definitely best of the old "Premier Automotive Group" bunch...

https://www.whatcar.com/news/reliability-survey-7/

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Check out that reliability of the RRS - 14.5%

If you go back to the F1, they were right up there according to government stats...

Freelander 2005...
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Toyota (Hilux) 2005...
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Not too far behind then lol. Shall see how it goes, I'm beginning to miss my CRV !
Ooops sorry bad language.
150000 miles, only changed liquids, pads etc. Probably coz when you poured in oil it stayed in the engine lol.
Seriously good little motor, never pretended to be master of off roading but was actually not bad with Bullitt proof simple 4x4 system.

Stuart hall said:

Not too far behind then lol. Shall see how it goes, I'm beginning to miss my CRV !
Ooops sorry bad language.
150000 miles, only changed liquids, pads etc. Probably coz when you poured in oil it stayed in the engine lol.
Seriously good little motor, never pretended to be master of off roading but was actually not bad with Bullitt proof simple 4x4 system.

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In my experience, the Honda 4X4 system is so bad, it's actually pointless carrying it's additional weight about.
This vid from a Swedish magazine pretty much sums up what I mean.

Nodge68 said:

In my experience, the Honda 4X4 system is so bad, it's actually pointless carrying it's additional weight about.
This vid from a Swedish magazine pretty much sums up what I mean.

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Without looking I've seen that, not true to life in my humble opinion, I bought one a few years ago on flea bay for peanuts, loved the zingey twin cam, smoked it around for 18 months didn't put a spanner on it. Sold it 4 years ago for peanuts, looked on the gov check mot site, its still going.
My brother drives one in the Dominican republic, 200000 miles still going.

Stuart hall said:

Without looking I've seen that, not true to life in my humble opinion, I bought one a few years ago on flea bay for peanuts, loved the zingey twin cam, smoked it around for 18 months didn't put a spanner on it. Sold it 4 years ago for peanuts, looked on the gov check mot site, its still going.
My brother drives one in the Dominican republic, 200000 miles still going.

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Oh forgot there's obviously a site for CRV fans, loads of videos of them ploughing though mud n water etc which to be honest they were never designed to do.
They cope very well in my opinion.
And being jap I'm embarrassed to say they dont break down.