molestrangler
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Yes, will do when I get back to my other home sometime next week.
molestrangler
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I've just uploaded a few images using the "Insert Image' button pointing to my own profile gallery images. Hope it works!
Lebanon
UAE
Lebanon
UAE
Tigger Eeyore & Roo
Well-Known Member
Wow, what fantastic photographs and what a great place to have a Land Rover!
Thanks for sharing them!
John.
Thanks for sharing them!
John.
molestrangler
New Member
Thanks, we've had fun in the UAE with the car.
But now it's in Lebanon the very poor roads and constant up & down mount Lebanon is taking it's toll on the car.
I'm flying back to Lebanon in Feb with spares; poly bushes, bearings, belts, Power steering pump and mundane stuff etc...
I fitted driving lights as power cuts are frequent (every day) in Lebanon which means no road lighting.
But now it's in Lebanon the very poor roads and constant up & down mount Lebanon is taking it's toll on the car.
I'm flying back to Lebanon in Feb with spares; poly bushes, bearings, belts, Power steering pump and mundane stuff etc...
I fitted driving lights as power cuts are frequent (every day) in Lebanon which means no road lighting.
GrumpyGel
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Lovely pictures. You look to have made to most out of your Freelander ownership
I've spent a bit of time in Dubai, not my favourite of places. Drove to Abu Dhabi once (much nicer) and was amazed charging down the main highway to come across a speed bump! I bet that thing has taken some suspension out over the years. That was about 12 years ago - don't know if its still there.
Been to Beirut a couple of times as well, lovely place and lovely people. I found it difficult to understand how so much damage to the city and its inhabitants was done.
I've spent a bit of time in Dubai, not my favourite of places. Drove to Abu Dhabi once (much nicer) and was amazed charging down the main highway to come across a speed bump! I bet that thing has taken some suspension out over the years. That was about 12 years ago - don't know if its still there.
Been to Beirut a couple of times as well, lovely place and lovely people. I found it difficult to understand how so much damage to the city and its inhabitants was done.
molestrangler
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The country has changed a lot in the last 15 years I've have been here. The highway between Dubai & Abu Dhabi is mostly a 16 lane highway, no more speed bumps. But I do remember them, and the cars in the sand with collapsed suspension for those who couldn't slow down in-time.
Hatta pools is mostly ruined by tourists these days, I haven't been for years. The road used to be a track, but I seem to remember it being made over into a tarmac road as it's a route used for Oman by locals.
Like most places in this small world of ours, when a destination gets on the tourist maps it tends to loose something some of us tend to look for in a place to live.
I like driving in Lebanon, it's absolutely nuts, all the usual traffic rules are optional (including the traffic lights). You have to drive with real purpose, if you know what I mean. Also the mount Lebanon roads are terrible and bloody dangerous in the wet.
Hatta pools is mostly ruined by tourists these days, I haven't been for years. The road used to be a track, but I seem to remember it being made over into a tarmac road as it's a route used for Oman by locals.
Like most places in this small world of ours, when a destination gets on the tourist maps it tends to loose something some of us tend to look for in a place to live.
I like driving in Lebanon, it's absolutely nuts, all the usual traffic rules are optional (including the traffic lights). You have to drive with real purpose, if you know what I mean. Also the mount Lebanon roads are terrible and bloody dangerous in the wet.
Tigger Eeyore & Roo
Well-Known Member
If I have a regret about buying a Freelander, it's that one everything else now seems cr**! (Other Land Rover / Range Rovers excluded, naturally).
I had to travel in one of the Reps' 3 Series recently and once I'd folded myself in through the door, it was like trying to live in a doll's house.
I can't go back to anything less and I just can't show any interest in them anymore. Someone was recently talking to me about a choice he had between a list of German small saloons and hatches. I had to look some of them up on Google and then, to be honest, I just lost interest.
I used to be interested in all this stuff, now I couldn't give a to**!
A chance visit to the Gaydon LRE in 2011 and 4 years in a series of FL2's have done this to me!!
I had to travel in one of the Reps' 3 Series recently and once I'd folded myself in through the door, it was like trying to live in a doll's house.
I can't go back to anything less and I just can't show any interest in them anymore. Someone was recently talking to me about a choice he had between a list of German small saloons and hatches. I had to look some of them up on Google and then, to be honest, I just lost interest.
I used to be interested in all this stuff, now I couldn't give a to**!
A chance visit to the Gaydon LRE in 2011 and 4 years in a series of FL2's have done this to me!!
courierdude
New Member
dont really regret owning a freelander but will be much happier when ive got rid of it lol : )
Alibro
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Not yet, but then I've only had it for a few days.
Mind you I bought a 1.8 so give it a week or two and the answer may be different.
OK so now I've owned it for a few months and had some of the usual Freelander issues, ie VCU, Propshaft bearings, Boot door lock, Wipers stopping on the screen plus the usual K series issues, ie Headgasket, irregular idle etc.
Plus a few I hadn't expected but I can't help loving it. It's comfortable, goes well enough, stops well, can go offroad if I want to, and is a lovely thing to sit in. And I really enjoyed working on it so no, still don't regret buying it.
lenny1234
Active Member
In my overlong driving life I have owned many cars.
And driven even more, but few stick in the mind as cars I have loved. Despite all their bad features.
I loved my Opel Manta, and my XJS and XK8 and XKR
I loved my landrovers - series III, DefenderTD5 and two Freelanders.
I quite liked my Nissan 200SX, but I hated my Vauxhall astra SRI.
I have a soft spot for Nissan Almeiras too. And the older Fiat Punto, and the original BMC minis.
Currently the Freelander is my lifeline and my friend. Its almost let me down (fuel pump) but eventually limped home.
Like the others, it has character. It is not bland soulless and efficient.
Could use a little less understeer on turn in though...
And driven even more, but few stick in the mind as cars I have loved. Despite all their bad features.
I loved my Opel Manta, and my XJS and XK8 and XKR
I loved my landrovers - series III, DefenderTD5 and two Freelanders.
I quite liked my Nissan 200SX, but I hated my Vauxhall astra SRI.
I have a soft spot for Nissan Almeiras too. And the older Fiat Punto, and the original BMC minis.
Currently the Freelander is my lifeline and my friend. Its almost let me down (fuel pump) but eventually limped home.
Like the others, it has character. It is not bland soulless and efficient.
Could use a little less understeer on turn in though...
Alibro
Well-Known Member
It's not running Mondo mode by any chance is it. With the propshaft off my 04 K series had chronic understeer and wheel spin. Now with it back on she is fine, both problems gone. Mostly.
lenny1234
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It's not running Mondo mode by any chance is it. With the propshaft off my 04 K series had chronic understeer and wheel spin. Now with it back on she is fine, both problems gone. Mostly.
nah, VCU is there - that's why putting power on keeps the nose in..
I dont go for big acceleration, but I do like to push through the bends a bit..
Alibro
Well-Known Member
Probably shouldn't have a Freelander then, that's not what they're designed for, nor any other 4x4 for that matter.
lenny1234
Active Member
no, but then if you get a car that is, you dont get the driving position, the load carrying capacity or the off road capability.
I overtook a porsche 911 once in my series III. Its not the car, its how you drive it...
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