It didn't, apparently! She called some homestart outfit (not AA or RAC) and all the bloke did was jump start it, pull the plug on the fan, then tell her to take a long drive to charge the battery up without warning her to keep an eye on the temperature gauge! Luckily we're not too far away, and I put the battery on charge here.
Just wondering if the temperature sensor was a known failure point. It's a 2.0 diesel by the way - is that a Td4?
GrumpyGel
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If its a 2.0 diesel, that makes it a Freelander 1. Up to 2000 that just makes it a Freelander, from 2000 onwards that's the TD4 as the engines changed.
The Freelander2 is a 2.2 diesel and was released 2007. It may be a TD4 or an SD4.
You should qualify which car it is (ie F1 or F2) because they are very different beasts.
The Freelander2 is a 2.2 diesel and was released 2007. It may be a TD4 or an SD4.
You should qualify which car it is (ie F1 or F2) because they are very different beasts.
Yes, sorry, I was going on vague girly info! It's definitely a FL2, so would be a 2.2 diesel. I saw 'FoMoCo' on a few bits...
Nodge68
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It'll be the FL2 then, and is of Ford origin, hence FoMoCo.
Best go with td4van's advice.
For accuracy, I tried to edit the thread title to 'cooling', rather than 'aircon' fan but failed......anyway, as it's good to get hear the solution as well as the problem on these threads, 'parently her garage diagnosed the coolant temperature sensor as being at fault.
