Freelander thinks it's a helicopter?

Hi,

I swear my Freelander thinks it's a helicopter, at least the back end anyway. If I apply moderate braking pressure, the back end will raise right up into the air. (in comparison with the front) At first I thought this was pretty cool but apparently it's not quite so cool for the passengers in the back, they say it gets annoying.

Any idea why it does this? Any way around it apart from babying it? It's not as though I drive it hard either. I've never had this issue before in any other car unless I braked immensely hard.

Cheers

Rich

Its time to consider new struts and possibly coils.

OldIrishWulf said:

Its time to consider new struts and possibly coils.

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Are you sure? I've seen other Freelanders do it and it also does it on some review. The guy doing the review even commented on it.

Is it a function of the design? High C of G throws more mass forward on to a vehicle with a relatively short wheelbase, and which has a reasonable compliant suspension system so it can get it's wheels on the ground on roughish terrain? In the extreme think of a bike doing stoppies.

Having said that I haven't had complaints from my back seat passengers, but maybe they like that sort of thing.

Are you sure your rear brakes are working?? Maybe your compensator valve has seized??

Droid said:

Are you sure your rear brakes are working?? Maybe your compensator valve has seized??

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I was going to suggest the same.

i was trying to recall where the compensator valve is>

Droid said:

Are you sure your rear brakes are working?? Maybe your compensator valve has seized??

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Cheers for the comments. It's going in for an MOT on Friday so maybe they will pick up on it.