Help new owner to be

gstuart · Jul 3, 2017

Nodge68 said:
Having studied the MOT information above. I would say that the FL was run for over 15,000 miles with the rear tyres lower than the fronts.

One front tyre failed the MOT in September 2015 @ 84619 miles, the other front was an advisory. So presumably it had two new front tyres at this point. It then failed the MOT in October 2016 @ 99778 miles on rear tyres. So that's a little over 15,000 miles with the fronts being new, rears approaching a worn out state.

I personally use tyre maintenance as a general guide to a vehicle's maintenance. If the owner can't be bothered to maintain safety critical items like tyres. Then what maintenance has been missed, when it's not safety critical?

My advice would be walk away. There are plenty of better maintained Freelander's out there.

that was also my conclusion after reading through the mot history to walk away, it hasn't been maintained

it hasn't been have serviced every year , considering its MOT history

failed 2 x times in 2015 ,

advisories of discs , rusty brake pipes and also rusty rear springs ,i know its trival but couldn't even be bothered to replace worn out wiper blades

would just hate to see a prospective owner buy it and then find out more things wrong when there are so many great ones out there to be had

mine always started each and every time and never let me down, but alas we all know there are friday cars out there that some wish to just offload on the unsuspecting public

Alibro · Jul 3, 2017

If you do take it for a test drive (or any car for that matter) then make sure you accelerate hard changing gear roughly. Sounds like a bad thing to do but I got caught out a year or so ago buying a car with a crunchy 3rd gear. During the test drive I drove it like a granny and didn't notice the crunch until the drive home.
I was lucky and changing the gearbox oil with ATF sorted the problem but was stupid to miss such an obvious fault.

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