Newbie, looking to stay but also after advice

Tended to do forums on car audio back in the day,London Irish my rugby team these days but it occured to me to old group knowledge like this can work wonders i.e. How to avoid a VERY big bill from the FL2 power steering resoviour issue.

So, the help, basically I'm wondering if someone might be able to point me to a "good" specialist for a Freelander 2 or on 4wd full stop I have a one thats got an issue and its been to landrover (greenoaks in slough) and to a "Landrover Specialist" in High Wycombe, money has changed hands and the issue still exists.

The issue,
Driving down the M40 about a year ago the car started pulling left heavilly, I was about 300m from the junction so I jumped off to find what I expected, a flat.

Spare put on, still pulled.
Tyre plugged, went for a 4 wheel alignment, was out and was corrected but still pulled and steadily got worse, wearing the tyres in the process.
4 new tyres and 4 wheel alightment, still pulled, went to landy in slough who wanted to.......do a 4 wheel alignment, I argued but they made a fair point of saying "we can't see what is wrong until we correct the alighment" done and they then called to say "it only pulls a bit now" madness.

So we now have a vehicle (its the mrs car) that pulls left slightly, that straight ahead though means the top of the wheel is actually at 10 o'clock and it eats tyres for breakfast, we've looked at getting shot but speaking to someone I know they are only fetching £6k at auction currently even though they forecourt at £9k at most places - plus we want to keep it, but are out of ideas for a fix
N.b. landy did say "we could try changing suspension and s.rack, £2500, may or may not fix it, would pay, but not for a "maybe" as it "maybe" £2500 down the toilet.

Also has developed a new fun issue of opening the boot when you open the car, i'm guessing that won't be such a hard fix though but am ignoring it until the landy will drive straight and do more than 5k on its tyres

Any suggestions much appreciated, i'm alright on cars normally but don't know where to start on this one

Hello welcome try freelander section mate calliper not sticky?

Hello and Welcome

Welcome to the forum.

Hi and welcome, has it been in an accident?

Not an accident as such, tyre went at 80mph so its knackered somthing, but a "specalist" and landy could not diagnose - which unfortualty leaves us in a sticky spot

I've had a similar problem. Mine is a Freelander 1 so may be different to yours.

Years ago my steering was out so it went for a 4 wheel alignment and steering geometry at a LR main dealer. This is the real thing, with full setup and it drove perfect afterwards. I take mine oft road occasionally so over time/years knocked the wheels out again. Not wanting to pay around £150+vat (paid £100+vat at the time as they forgot to do it after a service - and I was annoyed with them over the gearbox change) I went to independents. Long story short, the independents were also doing a laser track, laser 4x4 track, or some other crap name to sound like the real thing, but it wasn't. Also they did was setup the front wheels using the rear wheels as a datum. Problem was the rear wheels were out and they have a thrust angle and both were pointing too far inwards, and then each turned to the left. No amount of adjustment on the front can correct this as the rears are pulling left when driving. In the end I bought a trackace and did it myself with the help of 2 parallel lines. The trackace only tells you the angle between 2 wheels. The parallel lines tell you if the wheels are evenly point forwards. Trackace it then parallel line check, then track the para... repeating until it ok.

I'm not saying your problem is the same, but make sure they did a full align/steering geometry at the main dealer. This should set all wheels within spec. If this is done and the machine is ok then something else it out of spec. In layman's terms a twisted axle or one of the bushes/metal bars bent/twisted. Have a good look under the rear around the wheels to see if you spot anything. Lift the rear end and support on axle stands and see if bushes are tight etc. LR MD should already have done this but you never know.

Also drive along very slowly and stop very very gently. This will keep the wheels in a natural position. Do this on a flat level surface. You can now use a plumb line to mark out yer FL2 at various points to see if it's square. Also measure the distance from the wheel centres front to rear, on each side, to see if they're different. May be easier to go rim to rim.

Oh, and ask the question on the main Freelander forum over ere: Land Rover Freelander - Land Rover Zone

We have some tyre monkey's on ere. They may be able to advise. The strange tyre wear should tell you which wheel is effected.