Recent content by johnkarl

It was registered in November 2001 according to Swansea records

My Chassis numbers are SALLNABE72A3 And that's as far as i am going with my chassis numbers on line, the last 5 numbers are not on here, but they are all numbers

no mate it is SAL

I dont think so to be honest mate

you speak as if the front end was fitted and then ready for the scrap yard the next day, he could have had the front end fitted10 years ago, or he could have bought it like that, we will never know, but what we do know is, it's mine for now for a bargain price and thats all i'm bothered about mate

Hope that has worked he he he, thanks for your patients, now i must go to the bmw owners site to see if i can get a bit help from the lads and lasses on there, will be back soon

Sorry i have been away for a couple of weeks, been extremely busy trying to get some form of reliability into my daily driver,[ old bmw e90 petrol ] however i fully understand, as the man says, the thread is worthless without pictures, i will see if i can post some up, but at over 60, i'm not...

To be honest Its not the worst car i have ever bought and it will break for more than i paid for it, if the situation arises, plus it gives me something to do during my retirement and the lock down

What, cut the cat off or bought a Freelander he he he

Well i have just bought another Freelander, it's not the best i have owned that is for sure and has a few problems, i have saved it from the scrap heap and paid the grand sum of £160 for it, it is a 51 plate td4, manual and what caught my eye was it has a facelift lights and bumper fitted, like...

Thanks mate, will try and get under with my Vernier caliper guage to measure it, gets harder when you get passed 60 he he he

Does anyone know what size exhaust pipe is on my Freelander 1 td4, as cat has been cut off, even though it is worthless as cats go, so going to put a straight pipe in, I'm gutted

my thoughts exactly, everything points to that being the problem, will keep updated

haven't checked anything yet, just getting a list of what might be causing the problem and will look at one job at a time, easiest first he he he but i have read something about the regulator, will look back into that, think it has something to do with a paper clip and two terminals, cheers Tony