Will your Freelander lead to hard core Landy abuse?

Guys. I'm starting to worry I may have stumbled into a very nasty disease!!!
I bought a Freelander just after Christmas with no further thought than I wanted a nice comfy 4WD motor to potter about in and drive over the odd piece of grass.
Since then (because I was stupid enough to buy a K series) I have had to get the tools out for many big jobs. I have also frequented this forum probably far too much but the most worrying thing is from time to time I stray into Trattor Zone. I even find myself wanting to pull apart rusty lumps of metal, get them galvanized and covered in grease.

Should I be worried?
Am I on the slippery slope to trattoring?
Can Freelanders really lead to hard core trattordom?
Is there a help group for such an addiction?

Please help, I can feel all sanity slipping away

I often go into the tratter section but only to post crap.

I no longer have a Freelander but I still frequent this forum. I to have been spending some of my spare time fixing a Land Rover. However the bits are bigger, more complex and more expensive than those of a Freelander. I don't venture into the trattor area though. I don't like them, they are just to crude for my taste.

There's a deadicated Freelandering fred in the tratter, sorry Second Freelander section:

http://www.landyzone.co.uk/lz/f7/i-would-just-like-say-225175.html

Must admit , I'm on my 5th freelander but am would love a defender 90....... 2 things putting me off....... Fuel economy as this would have to be my daily drive .... And secondly their ridiculously high purchase price

God I'd love one !,,,

C13tay1 said:

Must admit , I'm on my 5th freelander but am would love a defender 90....... 2 things putting me off....... Fuel economy as this would have to be my daily drive .... And secondly their ridiculously high purchase price

God I'd love one !,,,

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I like the fenders ,look really good too. but since owning a freelander its so nice to have comfort. be able to hear the radio at 70 mph, air con, 41 mpg on a run,

alas the only thing the freelanders restrictions are its ground clearance

if i had the money would have a disco , due to there excellent off road ability along with more comfort than the fenders

often wonder if a fender and disco were tested side my side off road the disco would win hands down

both the disco and defender use the same axles (to an extent) same LT230 transfer case, and the same choice of engines.


Only real difference, is do you want haycart springs, with a garden shed for a body - or coil springs and a CAR body :lol:

Having owned D1s for many years, I find the Freelander so much easier to work on. Primarily because everything is so much lighter but also less rusty and siezed up!

As said the Defenders & Disco 1s are basically the same underneath - both have same transmission and suspension - haycart springs were ditched with the Series as was selectable 4WD in preference to permanent 4WD (stage 1 being the exception). I can't believe though that LR ditched the diff lock on D2. To me that basically cripples them for off-road capability - the TC just isn't up to replacing it. I don't know whether this was reintroduced with D3 & D4.

For my driving, which is driving tracks, beaches, river beds etc, I found AWD Freelander much better than Disco - at least as capable and with less fuss. If you're taking off road courses where the idea is to tackle obstacles, rather than navigate around them, then the low-range of the Defender & Disco probably makes them a better choice.

I fancied a Trattor during my days driving Discos. When I got the Freelander though, I bought 1. Having bought it though I now realise I'm not really prepared to spend the effort needed to get it road worthy. I should have got a tatty road worthy one that I could work on bit by bit. Actually, I probably shouldn't have bought 1 at all

most of the earlier Discos still had the difflock capability, they just didn't have the lever to actuate it - simple enough to make it work.

Later ones had the whole assembly reworked to remove the innards however. But still worth a check tbh

GrumpyGel said:

Having owned D1s for many years, I find the Freelander so much easier to work on. Primarily because everything is so much lighter but also less rusty and siezed up!

As said the Defenders & Disco 1s are basically the same underneath - both have same transmission and suspension - haycart springs were ditched with the Series as was selectable 4WD in preference to permanent 4WD (stage 1 being the exception). I can't believe though that LR ditched the diff lock on D2. To me that basically cripples them for off-road capability - the TC just isn't up to replacing it. I don't know whether this was reintroduced with D3 & D4.

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The D3 /4 uses a smart centre diff. It uses clutches to give variable locking form fully open to locked. It's operation is automatic, being under the control of the Terrain Response system. To be honest, it's an awesome system, making the massive and heavy Discovery very easy to control. It's a fuss free system, in many ways much like that of the Freelander 1.

Alibro said:

Guys. I'm starting to worry I may have stumbled into a very nasty disease!!!
I bought a Freelander just after Christmas with no further thought than I wanted a nice comfy 4WD motor to potter about in and drive over the odd piece of grass.
Since then (because I was stupid enough to buy a K series) I have had to get the tools out for many big jobs. I have also frequented this forum probably far too much but the most worrying thing is from time to time I stray into Trattor Zone. I even find myself wanting to pull apart rusty lumps of metal, get them galvanized and covered in grease.

Should I be worried?
Am I on the slippery slope to trattoring?
Can Freelanders really lead to hard core trattordom?
Is there a help group for such an addiction?

Please help, I can feel all sanity slipping away

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Just fit part number LRPC5100953 (automatic electric pig comforter with dash warning light) to your freebie, and you will have the best of both worlds..