Monoblock
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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 - on a FL2 Td4,
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
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 - on a FL2 Td4,
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
