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finbarr1953

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I have bought a LHD 2002 Freelander 3dr TD4 for onward shipment to West Africa. The vehicle leaves on September 30th but I'm struggling to understand if it is fitted with swirl flaps and if yes should I blank them off.

I have absolutely no technical knowledge and as this is my retirement vehicle and is going to a part of the world where there is little or no expertise or diagnostic equipment I would welcome any and all advice as to any matter I should consider before I ship it.

To encourage anyone who can help I will be using the vehicle for charity work whilst I'm in West Africa so any help you give will be for the benefit of people with needs far greater than any we might encounter here in the UK.

Many thanks in anticipation of help from the forum.
 
finbarr1953 said:
I have bought a LHD 2002 Freelander 3dr TD4 for onward shipment to West Africa. The vehicle leaves on September 30th but I'm struggling to understand if it is fitted with swirl flaps and if yes should I blank them off.

I have absolutely no technical knowledge and as this is my retirement vehicle and is going to a part of the world where there is little or no expertise or diagnostic equipment I would welcome any and all advice as to any matter I should consider before I ship it.

To encourage anyone who can help I will be using the vehicle for charity work whilst I'm in West Africa so any help you give will be for the benefit of people with needs far greater than any we might encounter here in the UK.

Many thanks in anticipation of help from the forum.
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one has to ask - why?
 
Maybe a Nigerian mechanic mentioned it to him and in all honesty for a charitable organisation should have advised him properly.
 
Na, it's like the begining of a scam....

Story goes no-one knows how to fix, charity so no money, retirement chap so older maybe less able.

An anticipation of help, I dunno, maybe I'm cynical and a old fart.
 
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Having read the replies think that some of you guys need to get out a bit more! Not even sure if I could sum up what was said in reply, that I was a scammer, crazy and or stupid for taking a Freelander to West Africa, pulling on heart strings and one chap seemed to think that I should stay on line and wait for a response. Glad I didn't in the circumstances.

So here it is, I thought that the site was a place where people with knowledge and expertise gave advice to thoase, like me, who lack both. The question still remains, are there swirl flaps on a Freelander. The abuse, cynicism, was interesting but an honest answer would be more welcome. Finbarr
 
finbarr1953 said:
Having read the replies think that some of you guys need to get out a bit more! Not even sure if I could sum up what was said in reply, that I was a scammer, crazy and or stupid for taking a Freelander to West Africa, pulling on heart strings and one chap seemed to think that I should stay on line and wait for a response. Glad I didn't in the circumstances.

So here it is, I thought that the site was a place where people with knowledge and expertise gave advice to thoase, like me, who lack both. The question still remains, are there swirl flaps on a Freelander. The abuse, cynicism, was interesting but an honest answer would be more welcome. Finbarr
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All the replies were honest advise. If you saw them as something else then that is your problem, not the forums.
 
yu might be in the wrong forum :eek:

The reasons peeps are confused is that a Freelander is not a simple motor to fault find, work on or fix. It can also be very expensive so, i repeat, "why" - do you want to take a car with lots of electronics to a country that by your own admission "has little or no expertise or diagnostic equipment"?
For example, to change/top up the gearbox oil, you are supposed to connect up to the diagnostic machine, run the system until the oil is at 80?degC before topping it up. If it is the auto, then removing the bolt underneath that looks like the drain plug (but isnt) will screw up your gearbox completely.
It just seems a foolhardy enterprise :rolleyes:
 
finbarr1953 said:
Having read the replies think that some of you guys need to get out a bit more! Not even sure if I could sum up what was said in reply, that I was a scammer, crazy and or stupid for taking a Freelander to West Africa, pulling on heart strings and one chap seemed to think that I should stay on line and wait for a response. Glad I didn't in the circumstances.

So here it is, I thought that the site was a place where people with knowledge and expertise gave advice to thoase, like me, who lack both. The question still remains, are there swirl flaps on a Freelander. The abuse, cynicism, was interesting but an honest answer would be more welcome. Finbarr
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Not as far as I am aware from the link I provided, I tried to explain a 200tdi or 300tdi would be a safer bet with no diagnostic equipment.
 
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