What have you done to your Freelander today

Replaced expansion tank cap, ordered a radiator top hose, bled the coolant system, thanks to Singvogel and Duncp73 for guidance.

Just had several car park dings removed from both offside doors for £90.00, bargain.

Now time to get my wheels refurbed, was thinking of satin black?? thoughts?

Landy is epson green

pardec said:

Just had several car park dings removed from both offside doors for £90.00, bargain.

Now time to get my wheels refurbed, was thinking of satin black?? thoughts?

Landy is epson green

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bright orange

Changed rear Nearside wheel bearing ,this time with genuine Land Rover one, hope it lasts better than the one I fitted last year !!

howardo said:

bright orange

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Think that might clash with my plum interior

my 2nd rear diff oil seal arrived today and cracked straight on with it... 35 mins later new one fitted.

just need to borrow a jet wash now to clean all the crap off the diff now.

New Tyres
New 5mm Spacers
New wheel nuts & Lockers
New wheel centre
New Rear Diff Polyurethane bushes


Washed it,
All ready for some driving...

Washed it🚿

Just cleaned and refitted my Inlet manifold.

Today I have uprated my headlight low beam bulbs to Osram night breaker plus.
£11.49 a pair delivered. Eblag again. Local motor factors £21.50 a pair.
If they re any good I'll do the high beams as well.
Cant be any worse than the h7 tealight candles that were in before.

spacecowboy2442 said:

Today I have uprated my headlight low beam bulbs to Osram night breaker plus.
£11.49 a pair delivered. Eblag again. Local motor factors £21.50 a pair.
If they re any good I'll do the high beams as well.
Cant be any worse than the h7 tealight candles that were in before.

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I've got them fitted in mine, it's pre face lift, so different to yours. I can't the bulbs highly enough though. You won't be disapointed with them.

Ta Duncp73. I needed to do something the bulbs in there were crap.
Just waiting for the darkness and I'll give em a bash.

Duncp73 said:

I've got them fitted in mine, it's pre face lift, so different to yours. I can't the bulbs highly enough though. You won't be disapointed with them.

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Yep, me too......brilliant bulbs.

spacecowboy2442 said:

Ta Duncp73. I needed to do something the bulbs in there were crap.
Just waiting for the darkness and I'll give em a bash.

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You'll be amazed at the difference mate.

Picked up the last 25 deck boards out of the 150 I needed for the latest garden project. The best part is i can take the roof bars off for the time being

Got my rear diff mounts fitted but now my handbrake cable has snapped

Fitted EGR blanking kit and new silicone intercooler hoses today.
Took me a long time to get the long hose off as the bottom hose clip was right next to a metal plate so I couldn't get a screwdriver onto it.

Fitted an accessory socket in the boot area. Being a facelift, it hasn't got the one in the back of the centre console and although I could have put one there I decided to put it right at the back near the boot light.

Whilst in a wiring mood, I also managed to sort out a weird problem I've been having with my front offside speaker since fitting my pioneer head unit. For a while, it's been dead until I've been driving for a while and then it's crackled into life. Initially this suggested a head unit fault that was temperature related. However, it turned out to be the connector between the original LR wiring loom and the steering wheel control harness. The plug was loose and everything sprung into life when it was squeezed together. I can only think that as it was so close to the giant heatsink own the back of the head unit, it was distorting the plastic of the plug when hot and forcing it to connect. Anyhow, the fix was easy with a cable tie tightened around the plug...

A productive day finished by a good old interior clean/clear out!

Touched up all the stonechips and started to reblacken the exterior plastics. Just about to start the rear canopy.....and then the heavens opened!
Oh well, a job for later in the week.

What did you use to re blacken the exterior trim? In the past I've used autoglym bumper gell but it tends to run about if it rains. I've also used a sealant on my plastic trim called autobrite abyss from their hell shine range. However, I'm not sure if this restores back to colour or just protects it from going back to grey.