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Springer_Lex

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Hey Everyone

I am looking for some advice. I am looking at purchasing a used Landrover Freelander and really need some information. I am told so many different things. So I figured I'd come on here and ask the people who know about them. I have been told not to touch a petrol Freelander but to go for Diesel. It'll be around 2000-2003 model I'll be getting. Any advice? It'll be used for going to and from work aswell as going out into the country with my dogs which I do a lot. I am also out a lot during the snow. Any information would be fantastic.
 
Hi,:welcome2:

First up - best advice - ignore the crazies on here - they think they are funny - some of the time they are - but as somebody said recently 'there is always someone watching new posts' and will reply immediately with the first wise ass crack that comes into their head. It's even worse on the Defender & Disco forums - all good crack as long as you don't take it seriously.

Yes - get a diesel - the TD4 BMW engine - economical - reliable - no surprises and every mechanic in Europe is familiar with them. The earlier diesel was pretty powerless - as for the 1.8 petrol engine? well you might get a good un - but there is / was a Head Gasket Failure problem.

6 Springers eh - you'll need the back seats down all right.

My huge GSD went all over Europe with me and he needed all the room back there in the rear luggage area.

Good luck and 'Woof'
 
springers are smart dogs, do them a favour and get a vehicle they'll actually want to be seen in
 
check there is a VCU (look it up) and prop shafts. Make sure there are no clonks and bangs, and pray. If yu want a car for dogs, suggest yu look at others - the Hippoo has only a small boot space compared with others.
 
They don't rust and the 5 door has enough room in the back for my large Labrador.
 
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I bought a 1.8 petrol3 door. Boot space with seats up is cramped for two boxers and 2 lurchers. With seats flat it;s huge and ample room for crates/cages if you like that sort of thing.

I can get a headgasket done on the engine for less than £200 - so it's no worse than buying winter tyres for some snotty CRV pretend type vehicle.

I've towed a twin horse box with a 15.2 hh horse with no problems. It's used daily for a 12 mile each way journey, and some stop starting to stables and back and its returning 32mpg roughly.

(thats practical advice, not an opinion based on crap btw)
 
Mine's used for about the same mileage and is returning circa 29 mpg, considering purchase price against what I'd have paid for a diesel it aint too bad at all.
 
found my old XDI to be very underpowered when towing a couple of horses in a trailer -
cant imagine how hard that 1.8 was working lol
 
Oh dear, I may have upset people with an inaccurate statement. :(

I was under the impression that the BMW M47 engine built at the BMW Engine Plant in Steyr Austria was a BMW engine. :confused:

It was produced I thought from about 1998 until 2007 during part of that period I thought LandRover was owned by BMW (1994? to 2000?) :confused:

I thought that BMW design engineers with input from Rover design engineers developed a variant of the BMW M47D20 (which was at that time a high pressure injection engine for the BMW 320d) called the M47R with common rail technology, for use in their ‘British’ vehicles. :confused:

So I thought the same engine was also supplied by BMW to power the Rover 75 and the MG ZT. :confused:

Maybe I’m wrong. :doh:

Maybe someone on here better informed than I, could tell me who did design and build the TD4 engine, and perhaps where it was built, if not by BMW in the BMW factory. :rolleyes:

If you pull out the dipstick and look carefully at the yellow plastic finger-pull – you can see quite clearly the letters BMW – maybe of course that is the only part that BMW made. ;)

Anyway, be that as it may, it’s a cracker of an engine. :D:D

I thoroughly recommend it – and a Freelander – even if you buy a petrol one! :)
 
Apologies Singvogel
I have done some research, after shooting my mouth off, and while the engine is not exactly an M47 it is close enough to be called a BMW engine.
I have now removed my words.
 
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