First time Freelander owner

Hi all - in the dim and distant past I've owned a 74 Range Rover V8, a Range Rover V8 injection (with lpg conversion), a Range Rover diesel (VM engine), a Discovery diesel, and even a Series 1 Landy pick-up with a Harvey-Frost recovery crane, but that was all a long time ago.......and now I've just acquired a 2003 Freelander TD4 as I was missing having a compact SUV - I'd run a Honda CRV as a general hack and tow-barge for years but it eventually wasn't worth spending on. I'd helped my step-granddaughter buy a Freelander a year or so ago and it seems to have been a good vehicle so I looked around for one - and bought one from salvage which seemed to have little damage - when I contacted the owner he advised that it was written off after the spoiler which had been glued on top of the tailgate had been knocked off in a car wash.....its in the boot!

Given this devastating amount of damage, I'm pretty happy with the purchase, but of course it has at least one fault - hence my finding myself on here. The fault appears to be the common TCS and Hill descent lights on as soon as I hit the brakes, so after a little browsing I guess I'm ordering a brake light switch

Anyway, thanks for the add, and doubtless I'll be back again

Hello and welcome

how can they write it off just for a spoiler that could be glued back on

Beats me but I'm not complaining - I got it for a bit over £300

Welcome to the forum

Its a great forum - all I had to do was read on here about the "3 Amigos" and the fault has almost cured itself Still pops up occasionally, but generally I'm happy. I'm used to my Alfas having what we call S*H*I*T (Self-Healing Italian Technology) but didn't realise Land-Rover utilised it too

Freelander's only have faults so they can spend more time with their owners.

Welcome to the forum