Xreg freelander-death of me

Help me? I'm new to this forum, so hello everyone.

I hope that someone is able to help me out, I bought a freelander yesterday, took it a test drive and it spluttered along the road and blew up.

The revs were erratic, I got about 500m and it came to an abrupt stop. The engine will not restart. There was an issue with the water pump (was pouring water out the side of it). When it stopped there was a puff of thick white smoke from the exhaust.The timing belt has not snapped and visually everything looks okay. Head gasket does not appear to be leaking either.

Any help that anyone can offer would be appreciated.

Bit more info on the engine/model would be nice....

Sorry haha it is a 1.8 petrol manual

take it back and get your money back

Definitely take it back and get your money back.

Hopefully you didn't buy it as is :/

I bought it as is, but got it at less than the scrap value, the cost and time involved is not an issue, just need to get to the bottom of the issue

Your #2 and #3 injectors are destroyed and need replacing.
Also your front tyres are a bit low.

(I hope you see the point I'm trying to make here)

Bukko what do you mean? The front tyres are fine?

92jdegnan said:

Bukko what do you mean? The front tyres are fine?

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Apologies, irony overload.

The point is, there is no way anybody could give an accurate diagnosis based on these details.
You really need someone with a clue to have a gander.

technically mate-it's ####ed, take it to bits and sell them on ebay then weigh in whats left

Head Gasket is gone, coolant pipe is full of white gunge and the engine is full of muddy sludgy oily water.

Well, at the very least you should get some dosh for the wheels, VCU, IRD.
Where abouts are you?

Whoa whoa whoa.... he said time and cost is not an issue. In which case he can do a search in the forums and get all the info he needs to rebuild the engine with the relevant upgraded bits surely?

degnan, also have a look on the MGF forums as they use the same 1.8 engine

By the way yours isn't an LR2 either

Skynet said:

Whoa whoa whoa.... he said time and cost is not an issue. In which case he can do a search in the forums and get all the info he needs to rebuild the engine with the relevant upgraded bits surely?

degnan, also have a look on the MGF forums as they use the same 1.8 engine

By the way yours isn't an LR2 either

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Spoilsport

Education

As long as the blocks ok and the liners haven't sunk these engines are almost infinitely rebuildable

need to find why the HG went - age , over heating etc then sort out with new pump/belt/tensioner and MLS gasket .

I may be cynical, but I think the original post must be a wind up.

yorkiesimon said:

I may be cynical, but I think the original post must be a wind up.

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By George I think you could be right.

I hope so anyway!

If so, fair play. Bastard.

Burn it. I'm surprised nobody has recommended that course of action yet?