Is anyone out there happy with their FL ??

Its a pain in the a*** but the Mrs likes it.

Owned the thing since May 07 & in that time:

1) Clutch
2) 2x Prop Bearings
3) New tyres (They wear bloody quick!)
4) IRD
5) It has developed a top end tap on starting it today.

AllanI said:

all too willing to come on here and tell the rest of us what a fine example of a Land Rover they have and we are the ones that made the mistake.

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That's one of the quirks of Landyzone, it's like a Korean brothel, it's got some good people, but its still mostly full of tits and ****s!*

Methos.

AllanI said:

It does seem to be the case that a lot of folk who don't own or haven't experience of FLs are all too willing to come on here and tell the rest of us what a fine example of a Land Rover they have and we are the ones that made the mistake. I'm on my second Freelander and having just returned from a 3k round Europe trip am well pleased with this one.
Allan

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Well, I had 2 gaylanders, each for 3 years, and covered 120,000 miles, so I feel well qualified to comment - THEY'RE CRAP. I was lucky, because mine were Company cars, so they didn't cost me owt to fix when they went wrong. But they nearly killed me on more than one occasion and for that reason I will always advise anyone contemplating buying one not to do it.

Treworgey 90 said:

Well, I had 2 gaylanders, each for 3 years, and covered 120,000 miles, so I feel well qualified to comment - THEY'RE CRAP. I was lucky, because mine were Company cars, so they didn't cost me owt to fix when they went wrong. But they nearly killed me on more than one occasion and for that reason I will always advise anyone contemplating buying one not to do it.

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good point well made they are crap

Was happy 'till this morning - €214 to change the 2 central locking motors/locks at dealers here in Mallorca. But have to admit thats all thats gone wrong in 14 months so not too bad. Had far worse!!

Treworgey 90 said:

But they nearly killed me on more than one occasion and for that reason I will always advise anyone contemplating buying one not to do it.

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Only ever heard of one other person nearly beng killed by his own motor...My Dad (Hes a senile old fooker and had more to do with a starter motor and hammer than he likes to mention)..

""Guns dont kill people...people do"" and all that ****e

doobreydog said:

had more to do with a starter motor and hammer than he likes to mention)..

""Guns dont kill people...people do"" and all that ****e

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well, mine had more to do with the steering wheel coming off in me hands, the engine cutting out dead at 70mph in lane 3 (numerous times), the rear suspension collapsing.......
need I go on?

Treworgey 90 said:

well, mine had more to do with the steering wheel coming off in me hands, the engine cutting out dead at 70mph in lane 3 (numerous times), the rear suspension collapsing.......
need I go on?

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now you tell me!!!!!!! ....... ......

Well I love my 2003 TD4 Auto Kalahari 5 door finished in unmarked silver paintwork. I bought the car from auction as finance repossession with 102k on the clock at the end of July for £2800, so I have been sitting on it for a month only being able to clean and polish it while waiting for the DVLA to sort the documents for it. In the meantime I have read most of this forum and almost put it back up for sale without even using it. But I have given it a chance, and I am glad I did.

It sailed through its MOT a week or so back and has now had all of the filters etc changed, the pollen one was well yucky and the crankcase filter was black and very heavy compared to the new one. The air filter was reasonable but I still changed it.

It drives superb nice and smooth, no smoke and seems to have lots of grunt compared to my last car a 2.0ltr 16v petrol Mondeo. No vibrations or knocks, reverses ok without binding, all of the electrics work as they should, I may be lucky and have a good one. (fingers crossed)

I have only had it on the road since Monday. So 2 days and 200 miles and no problems to report so far. Admittedly its early days yet!!!

But I am in love with it so far………………..

moanin minnies

I have only had it on the road since Monday. So 2 days and 200 miles and no problems to report so far. Admittedly its early days yet!!!

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Glad to hear that you finally got on the road & sounds like all your servicing paid off.

Treworgey 90 said:

well, mine had more to do with the steering wheel coming off in me hands, the engine cutting out dead at 70mph in lane 3 (numerous times), the rear suspension collapsing.......
need I go on?

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How old was your Freelander? Sounded like it was on its last legs!!! I know quite a few Fords that have had steering column snapping off, breaking the brake cable at the time time, etc so I would never touch a Ford car with a barge pole!

Now back to my '54' Freelander TD4, I've been really happy with Brummie since I've had him from new back in February 2005. He's done 64,000 & has always been serviced. Been touring round Scotland with 2 mountain bikes on top & the fuel was better than expected so am well pleased with Brummie.

I have had my TD4 HSE 2004 54 plate for 3 years now, and touch wood haven't had anything apart from services to pay for? No warranty or anything, am I unusual or just lucky!

or a liar .

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or a liar .

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MHM thats the xmas spirit:kettlepot:

There was a smiley after.

Merry Xmas, dopeydog & good luck in 2009.

Thats what I love about this place. Away for ages, come back and nowts changed, still the same faults, still the same old pile of sh*te that LR fobbed us off with. And it had the pottential to be sooo good. And you'd have fort they'd get it right with the FL2...fat chance....:mad2:


Grumpy old man bit done, good luck to all of you running FL's, may yer ird stay safe and give yer another year of quality motoring....:bump: :crutch: :deadhorse:

Well ive got a 2000 TD4 with 68k on it & apart from a rear side window reg failing............its been no more trouble than any 8 yo car

Steve

I've had my 2000 Xedi for just over a year. Plenty has gone wrong but it hasn't cost me massive because I fix it myself. Is it a bad car? One thing I do know is I bloody love driving it. It was bought for pulling our caravan and it does that job brilliantly. It took us across Ireland this summer, with the van, and all around the mountains of County Kerry, without the van . Also its 8 years old and its done nearly 90K. Things are going to start going wrong, I accept that and thats pretty much regardless of what car you buy. yes, there are times I wish I'd not bought it cuz something else has broke, but I'm not planning to get rid of it. I'm going to tend to its needs and keep it going. Why, because I want to. Its an interest not just a car. I suspect that is true for many people on this forum, you must have an interest or you wouldn't be here.

javars said:

Well ive got a 2000 TD4 with 68k on it & apart from a rear side window reg failing............its been no more trouble than any 8 yo car

Steve

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Funny, I've got two 12 year old BM 5 series now( 1x touring, 1 x saloon, both 525i e34's for those in the know, one's on an 'M' plate, t'other's on an 'N'). Have put 20k plus on them myself, one is on 142k, t'other is 179k. Have ALL the service/repair paperwork for both, most either have needed is ARB drop links over their entire life. You look what my 'R' plate Xedi needed in that time, I could have bought both of my BM's outright for money spent. And I'm not anti freelander-see my previous posts. The FL had many inherent faults/engineered failings that meant it should not have been released. Thats not my opinion, that's the opinion of the motor trade as a whole. Just search honest john/autotrader to see what they think. Personally I loved driving my FL, but reliable? No way.

However, as Darmain sez, if yer prepared to get yer hands mucky, yer'll save a packet. Just there's a lot of bits on it that if they'd bin better designed in the first place, yer wouldn't have to touch (wire driven leccy windows for a start, that's afore we get onto plastic geared sunroofs, etc ad nauseum..)