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smallzoo

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I am hoping for a friendly gloves on debate about the merits of each but here goes..

I have about £1500 to spend on a reasonably stylish motor (3 or 5 door) which will be good in winter and take my enormous dog around..

I have owned older discos and range rovers so maybe people will be surprised when I say I like the freelander. Many years ago I had a 1.8XEI and it never faulted..

I will only do around £5k miles a year and that will be mainly road diriving.

Is the 1.8 engine that bad ?.. surely if the td4 goes wrong it will be expensive..

Thanks a lot
 
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would agree with MHM, I've a td4 auto which I've taken from 36k to 103k, good solid engine.

your limited mileage could be the nemesis of the 1.8, it was documented recently in LRO that one of the causes for HGF was when the engine was worked hard from cold. If your only doing little miles and it never really warms up, could be further grief.

good luck with your quest.
 
TD4 or L series get my vote

my 1.8 pulls like train but will enevitably commit hari kari at some point despite me fitting all the necessary mods


and apparently mine is a good one
 
Well I know that I'm not all that qualified to pitch in having only owned my 1.8 a few weeks - but I think that the mods that I've done should really help prevent HGF if anything of what I have read (of the actually constructive stuff) is to be believed. The electronic water pump is my next big upgrade. Mine hasn't missed a beat so far, only have a few gremlins in the transmission but that is common to both models.

But for £1500 I imagine (might be wrong) that you could get a pretty good 1.8, or a not so sprightly TD4. But it sure sounds like the TD4 is less hassle on average. And there's always the L series doozle but I don't know much about those.

Just make sure you are 100% clued up about Freebies before you go looking :).

Will.
 
WLJayne said:
Well I know that I'm not all that qualified to pitch in having only owned my 1.8 a few weeks - but I think that the mods that I've done should really help prevent HGF if anything of what I have read (of the actually constructive stuff) is to be believed. The electronic water pump is my next big upgrade. Mine hasn't missed a beat so far, only have a few gremlins in the transmission but that is common to both models.

But for £1500 I imagine (might be wrong) that you could get a pretty good 1.8, or a not so sprightly TD4. But it sure sounds like the TD4 is less hassle on average. And there's always the L series doozle but I don't know much about those.

Just make sure you are 100% clued up about Freebies before you go looking :).

Will.
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sound advice......use the search function and read carefully
 
Tom.JTC said:
OK, you got me. :eek:

I only know of their rumours, but I thought 3 pages of views might be of some help, even if a little biased...
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they do deserve the rep, but I've learned to live with mine. Some others may not be as patient.


just wish I could afford the electric water pump :(
 
Oh wait, do you mean you want a water pump that doesn't pump anything until the engine is fully up to temp ? Or either way just a water pump that runs an electric motor rather than belt driven ?

Because if thats the case surely you could take an old water remove the aux belt and reposition the belt so that it runs off an electric motor like that of an old leccy fan from a big car like a V8 Jeep or Slitty so theres enough power then fit that up to a simple relay system, fabricate a new mount for it and swap the belt and aux wheel for a bike chain and gear of similar size or smaller/larger depending on the fans output
 
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