Evening from kent.

My name is Glyn and i am going to pick up my Freelander ES (00) 1.8i 3 Door Dark Blue on monday the 25th.

I own my own horses and live in the country, though it seems the person that owned it before did not alot! lol


I own and run the countrys largest Heritage Railway forum called
National Preservation. I won't put a link up but if you do a search on google it'll be the first one there!

I am 26 and am a technical manager at an internet hosting company!

Cheers!

Good afternoon from The Medway Area

NO!

it just shows how dumb sum peeps in the IT industry can be

welcome to Looneyzone, by the way - but DONT DO IT!!!!!

ANYTHING BUT A 1.8 HIPPOO - GET A C4, A LADA - BUT NOT THAT.

IT int a industry, more of a pass time for folk what can't get real jobs..bit like buying a 1.8 gaylander, pass time fer folk wot dunt buy real cars

Morning from Sunny Maidstone!!

Ade

Cheers for your welcomes I think?

IT int a industry, more of a pass time for folk what can't get real jobs..

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And what job do you do?... Slob??? I have spent 3 years at the top of the tree. I enjoy my job and also it pays for my mortgage / Voluntary work / Website?

loonyzone eh? lol i'll fit right in.

i'm retired, man of leisure these days. what am saying is its hardly an industry.

"Industry (from Latin industrius, "diligent, industrious"), is the segment of economy concerned with the production of goods "

if yer want chapter and verse on my various jobs and occupations just say and i'll write yer out a list

slob said:

i'm retired, man of leisure these days. what am saying is its hardly an industry.

"Industry (from Latin industrius, "diligent, industrious"), is the segment of economy concerned with the production of goods "

if yer want chapter and verse on my various jobs and occupations just say and i'll write yer out a list

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Production of goods?

So producing custom code and office systems. And designing specialist software for customers is not?

Industry is not something what you can only touch.

Anyway whats so bad with the Freelanders?

I can't afford anything else and need something to tow a small horse box?

natpres said:

Anyway whats so bad with the Freelanders?

I can't afford anything else and need something to tow a small horse box?

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Lets hope that small horse is a Shetland Pony then.

Lol..

So is it just a single model of the freelander or do they all have problems?

Try searchin thru the gaylander section. There are issues with all of them to some extent or another, but the petrol ones........well

Freelanders, especially the 1.8 petrol have suffered badly with engine issues, particulary 'head gaskets' . . . PLEASE, before you part with your heard earned £'s make sure it is ok, and check on any warranty, or you WILL have to get it done sooner or later, and it's expensive (unless you're a DIY mechanic)

natpres said:

Anyway whats so bad with the Freelanders?

I can't afford anything else

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Have a browse through the freelander bit - yu should see enuf to make your hair stand on end.

The coment about " I can't afford anything else", I find interesting - have yu considered running and repair costs in your statement? Mine cost me £6700 in 13months in repair bills alone. Is that cheap?

We have got a car at the moment, Bought it off ebay, It had no oil in it and had been running for about 6 months like it (I have no idea how!)

We're doing a PX because I am not sure on how long it'll stay running.
(And we been offered more that what we payed).

One thing i have learnt througn working with the internet. is that people only usually say things on forum and the like when things go bad.

It gets very concentrated with bad reports that the things that are ok and go on for years with no problems get put aside.

Yes they may have various well documented problems but has every single one had something wrong?

It would be unfair to LR to say 'every single freelander' is cr*p, but . . . there is an awful lot of critisium on the petrol ones . . . on the other end of the scale, the diesels, especially the TD4 are very good, it's a BMW engine that's why . . (a colleauge of mine at work has a 04 reg TD4, it has clocked over 70k now without a glitch.

They are not in the same league as a defender or discovery when off road, but they are quite capable, and do what they were designed to do. It just seems the marque has been tarred a lot by the petrol 1.8i (sorry if that is the one your looking at) but what is . . I'm afraid certainly seems to be in this case !!

Yeah the one i will be getting is a 1.8i Petrol. done 40k with LR service everytime. And it's had one owner since new.

I think you mite have cracked it, Steve.

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here is an awful lot of critisium on the petrol ones . . .

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It must this peculiar new metal "critisium" that they are using - it must cause them to fail at irregular but frequent intervals.

In the past 2 weeks my local village garage has 2 Freelanders in both 1.8 petrols and both for head gasket. Also on ebay the other week a one was for sale for spares or repair due to the third engine that had been fitted blowing a head gasket. So make your own mind up.

The Mad Hat Man said:

I think you mite have cracked it, Steve.



It must this peculiar new metal "critisium" that they are using - it must cause them to fail at irregular but frequent intervals.

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Yep, it's actually quite rare, it come from a deep mine in Solihul thats why LR was the only ones to use it for the Gaylander injuns . . . . oh apart from the Lada's an Neesans . . . fink they had some as well