Freelander 1 18 Year old, passes MOT.

Hello all.
A bit of a nervous morning today. The old Black Pearl went in for it's MOT.
There was nothing that jumped out at me as I looked over it, but you never know. On the last occasion it did benefit from some injector cleaner, so, taking no chances I put 6 bottles through it prior to test at each fill up.
On returning to the MOT station I could see it was still in the air on the ramps, so waited outside. The chap appeared and called me over.... Oh SH*T I thought.
'All ok' He said, but if your keeping it, you might want to recover where the original under seal has come off.
Must be where small rocks/stones have hit when off road.
Don't ramps make it easy to see, rather than on your back!
Very chuffed.
Cheers.

Cracking result!

Looks good too!

Well done. I've got a 2 post lift, saves your back and is safer than ramps and stands.
I reundersealed my TD4 earlier this year, messy but put a tarp on the floor, dropped off the subframes and replaced all brake lines then masked and sprayed the underside with rubbery stuff and waxoyled the box sections till it dropped out. Powder coated suspension and springs, new bushes, brakes, shocks and joints and good to go!!

Only original part on mine is the shell and the exhaust front section!!

41 years old and from memory no advisories

Marmaduke said:

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41 years old and from memory no advisories

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Yeh, but the doors really have fallen off.

GrumpyGel said:

Yeh, but the doors really have fallen off.

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And don't forget the glaringly obvious issue. It's got the wrong bloody badge on it.

andyfreelandy said:

I reundersealed my TD4 earlier this year, messy but put a tarp on the floor, dropped off the subframes and replaced all brake lines then masked and sprayed the underside with rubbery stuff and waxoyled the box sections till it dropped out. Powder coated suspension and springs, new bushes, brakes, shocks and joints and good to go!!

Only original part on mine is the shell and the exhaust front section!!

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Just doing this to mine at the moment but without the lift. Amazing how little underseal was used originally.

Same age for mine, and it just went through with no advisories. Like you I put some injector cleaner through it, but I don't know if it has much effect. Still, can't hurt. Mine's five door and I'm looking for a three door to work on. You've got a small pick up with the back off. very handy.

Thanks all.
I don't know where I got this from, so may be way off the mark... were Freelanders galvanised in production?? Any info on what they did regarding corrosion protection from new welcome.
They does seem to be less about on the road FL1's,
Now that the MOT thing is done, I'll go back to putting the two stroke in at each fill up. If nothing else, it sounds better!
Cheers all.

I don't know but I don't think rust is the reason you don't see do many FL1s. That honour goes to land rovers that predate freelanders. I've had four of them now and none went rusty.