Should I cave to the pressure.

After the recent snow and due to the fact she works out in Peak District SWIMBO has been putting some pressure on me.
She used my frontera for 2 days and has now said she wants a 4x4 again.
She usually always has had them mainly but now she does a 60 mile round trip she has a 1.6jtd giulietta.

Anyway I sold her freelander back in 2009 and she didn't want to sell it and still moans at me about doing so some 5 years on.
It was an X plate ES td4 auto with only 67k.
Anyway I sold it as I recall it doing 250 miles to £75 of fuel, equating to low 20's.
This now terrifies me.

I would be looking at a manual td4 this time, I prefer 3dr and it maybe 1mpg better , sub 70k miles.
Doing a round trip of 60 miles that is mainly mixed roads on way to work and very much country lanes on the way back (the strines for those who know them) would I get mid to high 30's mpg and would you trust the generally reliability of the freelander not to leave my wife stranded in the middle of no where.

I know the vcu and ird issues which I believe improved after 2002 so would be swaying towards a face lift issue.
But these don't make the car 'break down' do they?
My couple of years of the old freelander were reliable other than electric windows and bits like that.

Just trying to weigh up
Giulietta
I owe £8k on it
41.5mpg
£30 a year tax

Vs
Freelander
Prob cost £4k
£245 tax
Mpg ?
Happier wife

Sorry just thinking out loud in all this

Go for the happier wife option = your life happier ��

You have a missus that wants a 4x4 over a normal car and you are wondering what to do? Wanna swap wives?

A bit rich calling her 'She Who Must Be Obeyed' when you sold her car against her wishes

That was 5 years ago, I'm married now wasn't then

what about a disco?

Low 20`s MPG = a problem. Either with the car or with the driver.

Mine is a 2001 td4 with a synergy2 set to max power+max torque and I get a solid 34mpg on mostly twisty backroads. It will do noticeably better on a motorway run.

ashleywood.ash said:

That was 5 years ago, I'm married now wasn't then

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You sold her Land Rover against her wishes and she STILL married you?! She's a good one, I'd go out of my way to make that one happy!

Sorry, no experience of the Freelander 1, so can't help with the facts and figures....

on my petrol 1,8 25 miles a day and get 27 mpg and thats all small twisty roads.
and as others have said happy wife happy you

Mines a 2001 5 door TD4 Manual, returning 38 - 40 mpg on mixed country lanes & main roads 50 miles each way 3 up to work and back, mpg figures taken over the last 3 months of daily use.

Keep the Mrs happy

Hi, I also have a 2001 manual td4, I drive it round the local roads, fishing, towing boats and trailers and still get 35 mpg, usual window problems, easily fixed, first freelander I have owned but am very happy with it.

I might have to crack then.
I have just bought myself a mg zt-t auto with the same td4 engine so guess I best crack to the pressure

She really think mechanically too she says it must be:
54-56 plate
3dr
Preferably black
With side steps

No brainer
Peak District. I know it well. Why would anybody want to drive a toy car.
Freelander 1 TD4 all day every day.
Just bought one. Get as late a model as you can afford.
Stop thinking about it. Get dirty and pleasure the wife....

ashleywood.ash said:

... I sold her freelander back in 2009 and she didn't want to sell it and still moans at me about doing so some 5 years on.
It was an X plate ES td4 auto with only 67k.
Anyway I sold it as I recall it doing 250 miles to £75 of fuel, equating to low 20's.
This now terrifies me.

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I agree. Happy wife = happy you. From what I've read on here re the FL1 diesels they respond well to regular maintenance. Most seem capable of high 30s to low 40s. For ease of home maintenance the L series diesel is well regarded.I realise that's an older model but perhaps worth considering?

I was up Buxton yesterday at the antiques fair and after we always go for a coffee up this side road as we always carry a flask with us and if I was not in my freelander we would have been stuck in a 2 wheel drive car ,now I used to have to go through Buxton once a week until our friend died , and you need a 4 wheel drive no matter what it is ,so get her one it is a lonely place up there in the winter especially when they only allow 4x4 cars to go through.

Guess I better see if I can sell the alfa then ��