angeloc
Well-Known Member
No they are good just not as great as they could have been. A week looked after and regularly serviced one is fine - I would not like to have bought one new and kept it as they are expensive and the small flaws would have really got to me BUT second hand with a good few miles on they are cheap and easily sorted - just budget an extra £1000 on any second hand one that had not had things like a VCU etc done recently.
I love mine - it drives beautifully, if powerful enough, comfortable and reasonably economical and goes pretty much any where I want to take it. All the alternatives are well not a Landrover!
But one just pay attention when you buy - I didn't and had a bit of stuff to do but I know it well now!
I love mine - it drives beautifully, if powerful enough, comfortable and reasonably economical and goes pretty much any where I want to take it. All the alternatives are well not a Landrover!
But one just pay attention when you buy - I didn't and had a bit of stuff to do but I know it well now!
chromiumuk
Well-Known Member
I've owned several Fiats in my time & whilst they handled fairly well with peppy engines they were without exception shoddily built with poor electrics, weak gearboxes & poor quality steel (even if they had galvanised panels, ancillaries & suspension components/subframes still corroded heavily).
Freelanders are good but require regular maintenance & care whereas Fiats are just **** & the Multipla really is one sorry excuse for a car.
Freelanders are good but require regular maintenance & care whereas Fiats are just **** & the Multipla really is one sorry excuse for a car.
My old man bought a Croma new back in 1988, to be fair it was a great car other than the fact that if it rained, water seeped into the fuse box and fused all the electrics. And he lived in Wales...
Scarily he replaced it with a Citroen Bx 4x4. Then a Audi S3, then a Honda HRV...
And I replaced my Alfa Romeos with a Freelander. Must be something really F*&ked up in our genes...
If buying a freelander, follow the others advice, get a TD4, test lots of them and buy the best you can - but road test several or if you know someone with a goodun then test theirs so you can get an idea of how good a good one is.
Scarily he replaced it with a Citroen Bx 4x4. Then a Audi S3, then a Honda HRV...
And I replaced my Alfa Romeos with a Freelander. Must be something really F*&ked up in our genes...
If buying a freelander, follow the others advice, get a TD4, test lots of them and buy the best you can - but road test several or if you know someone with a goodun then test theirs so you can get an idea of how good a good one is.
twin_cam_turbo
New Member
Get a TD4, not the Rover engined diesels.
The TD4 came in after 2000 and is much more reliable.
Our 2004 TD4 has 118,000 miles on the clock and aside from injectors, all seems to be well (touch wood). New injkectors fitted and she's right as rain. They need fettling here and there but most cars do anyway.
Don't get a petrol - they are flawed. Heavily.
