What have you done to your Freelander today

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650 mile round trip.
Left home 04:30 Sunday morning to pick up my wife stranded on a train somewhere between Telford and Wolverhampton thanks to storm Darragh. Great trip down. Road quiet and clear until I left the M6 and then had to negotiate all the branches and flooding on minor roads. Quick coffee, a cooked breakfast, load the car with wife & suitcases and headed back. M6 & M74 mobbed with all the people who heeded the warnings and didn’t travel Saturday. Got home 18:00 hours.
Tailwind going south helped return 37.5 mpg. Headwind heading north pulled it down to 33.5 mpg. Car now has over 233,000 miles on the clock.
 
Atomician said:
@Bounty Is it a front heated windscreen or rear out of interest?
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The vehicle has both, but the rear one works and works well. All clear across the elements in about 2 minutes.

It's the front one that's not kicking in. If I switch it and the rear on at the same time, the rear clears while the front doesn't. The front will turn off long before the rear does, and the screen only clears in a 'fan' shape once I set the blower to work
 
Bounty said:
The vehicle has both, but the rear one works and works well. All clear across the elements in about 2 minutes.

It's the front one that's not kicking in. If I switch it and the rear on at the same time, the rear clears while the front doesn't. The front will turn off long before the rear does, and the screen only clears in a 'fan' shape once I set the blower to work
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Check the relay and fuses. The front screen pulls loads of power, so relay and fuses can fail. The front screen times out after 10 minutes IIRC.
 
Nodge68 said:
Check the relay and fuses. The front screen pulls loads of power, so relay and fuses can fail. The front screen times out after 10 minutes IIRC.
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I thought maybe one of those until I measured voltage at those thin strip contacts that actually connect to the glass. If I'm getting a reading there, then it can't be either of those? Or is there something else going on
 
Bounty said:
I thought maybe one of those until I measured voltage at those thin strip contacts that actually connect to the glass. If I'm getting a reading there, then it can't be either of those? Or is there something else going on
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Have you checked you're getting a ground at the windscreen? I believe the screen heater is controlled by the ECU or VCU so probably has the ground switched and permanent 12V
 
Not quite.
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I think the CCU does the timing or maybe just powers off when car off and cancels power until button pressed again. I think mine stays on until I switch off or car stopped.

Not sure why the switch illumination has a 30 Amp fuse !! Fire hazard me thinks. Will check that is all it does and down rate mine.
 
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andyfreelandy said:
I think the CCU does the timing or maybe just powers off when car off and cancels power until button pressed again. I think mine stays on until I switch off or car stopped.

Not sure why the switch illumination has a 30 Amp fuse !! Fire hazard me thinks. Will check that is all it does and down rate mine.
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Fair point, the diagram clearly shows Pos being switched. I should have known better as I had a go at making mine work a year or so ago but gave up as I struggled to make head nor tail of the diagram and I didn't really need it. My car is in the garage 99% of the time so no snow or ice on it and the fan works well enough to demist.
 
Bounty said:
I thought maybe one of those until I measured voltage at those thin strip contacts that actually connect to the glass. If I'm getting a reading there, then it can't be either of those? Or is there something else going on
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If you're getting voltage at the window terminals, it suggests the window has failed. The bond between the cables and elements in the glass can fail. A resistance check should show a very low resistance, something like ½ and Ohm.
 
Off to collect it from the gearbox place

We originally ventured it might be a driveshaft or the bearing where the driveshaft meets the differential. Having bought another shaft and checked the bearing, it appears to be neither. So my hopes of a cheaper end repair have been dashed. There's nothing more to be done for the moment.

Supposedly they're meant to be indestructible so there's not even a part number to go looking for. We think it's the planetary gear now, but not being able to source the individual items now I'm looking at breakers for another gearbox entirely
 
Finished swapping out the drivers door window regulator. Had a bolt left and couldn't for the life of me remember where it was from. I realised after I'd put the door card back on that it was the one that holds the motor bracket to the inner skin. D'oh!

Also, my trusty Oracle friend got the rear hubs, brakes and drums all put together and the car back on four wheels. There is only now the prop, one wishbone, one track rod end and driveshaft to do. The end is nigh!

What I was amazed about is how much mould there was on the inside of the vehicle having stood for a couple of months. The weather has been so wet this year!
 
Had to travel to another site for work today, and decided to take Buddy (the F2) and my Best Buddy (the mutt) for the trip.
Reminded me how comfy these are on a long trip.

Treated it to £95 of shell Vpower diesel (the car, not the dog).

Stopped after about 100 miles for a break on the way there, and was returning just over 40 mpg.
 
Last week I used my Freelander EV to tow a mates motorbike (on a trailer) to a repair shop. Only problem was the shop is 30 miles away and my car has a range of up to 100 miles on a good day. In the winter at around 3 Deg C with a large trailer and a motorbike it could not be called "a good day". I wasn't sure what the range would be but decided 60 miles should be OK if I took it easy. If I had figured out how to implement fast charging I would have been able to stop and recharge enroute but I haven't, not yet anyway. In fact my ac charging is pretty slow too at 3kW so I can only add around 9 miles per hour to the range, probably less while towing but at least it was an option.

Anyway we set off and apart from one of his securing straps breaking resulting in the bike almost falling off the trailer we made it there and I made a quick calculation that we should be able to make it home too.
The only issue we had on the whole trip was the cold. The heater uses 2kW which is around 5% of the battery capacity per hour. On a journey that lasted 1.5 hours that would be approx 7.5% reduction in the range or 7.5 miles so went without.
In the end we probably could have had the heater on at a low temp and still made it back but I didn't feel confident to do that, however I was delighted that my dodgy home built Frankenstein EV conversion was able to do the job at all.
Sadly I forgot to take photo's but it was a fun trip and confirmed the car is still a practical workhorse.
 
Alibro said:
Last week I used my Freelander EV to tow a mates motorbike (on a trailer) to a repair shop. Only problem was the shop is 30 miles away and my car has a range of up to 100 miles on a good day. In the winter at around 3 Deg C with a large trailer and a motorbike it could not be called "a good day". I wasn't sure what the range would be but decided 60 miles should be OK if I took it easy. If I had figured out how to implement fast charging I would have been able to stop and recharge enroute but I haven't, not yet anyway. In fact my ac charging is pretty slow too at 3kW so I can only add around 9 miles per hour to the range, probably less while towing but at least it was an option.

Anyway we set off and apart from one of his securing straps breaking resulting in the bike almost falling off the trailer we made it there and I made a quick calculation that we should be able to make it home too.
The only issue we had on the whole trip was the cold. The heater uses 2kW which is around 5% of the battery capacity per hour. On a journey that lasted 1.5 hours that would be approx 7.5% reduction in the range or 7.5 miles so went without.
In the end we probably could have had the heater on at a low temp and still made it back but I didn't feel confident to do that, however I was delighted that my dodgy home built Frankenstein EV conversion was able to do the job at all.
Sadly I forgot to take photo's but it was a fun trip and confirmed the car is still a practical workhorse.
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Just ask Santa for a bigger coat 😉
 
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