ashleywood.ash
Active Member
After the recent snow and due to the fact she works out in Peak District SWIMBO has been putting some pressure on me.
She used my frontera for 2 days and has now said she wants a 4x4 again.
She usually always has had them mainly but now she does a 60 mile round trip she has a 1.6jtd giulietta.
Anyway I sold her freelander back in 2009 and she didn't want to sell it and still moans at me about doing so some 5 years on.
It was an X plate ES td4 auto with only 67k.
Anyway I sold it as I recall it doing 250 miles to £75 of fuel, equating to low 20's.
This now terrifies me.
I would be looking at a manual td4 this time, I prefer 3dr and it maybe 1mpg better
, sub 70k miles.
Doing a round trip of 60 miles that is mainly mixed roads on way to work and very much country lanes on the way back (the strines for those who know them) would I get mid to high 30's mpg and would you trust the generally reliability of the freelander not to leave my wife stranded in the middle of no where.
I know the vcu and ird issues which I believe improved after 2002 so would be swaying towards a face lift issue.
But these don't make the car 'break down' do they?
My couple of years of the old freelander were reliable other than electric windows and bits like that.
Just trying to weigh up
Giulietta
I owe £8k on it
41.5mpg
£30 a year tax
Vs
Freelander
Prob cost £4k
£245 tax
Mpg ?
Happier wife
Sorry just thinking out loud in all this
She used my frontera for 2 days and has now said she wants a 4x4 again.
She usually always has had them mainly but now she does a 60 mile round trip she has a 1.6jtd giulietta.
Anyway I sold her freelander back in 2009 and she didn't want to sell it and still moans at me about doing so some 5 years on.
It was an X plate ES td4 auto with only 67k.
Anyway I sold it as I recall it doing 250 miles to £75 of fuel, equating to low 20's.
This now terrifies me.
I would be looking at a manual td4 this time, I prefer 3dr and it maybe 1mpg better
, sub 70k miles.Doing a round trip of 60 miles that is mainly mixed roads on way to work and very much country lanes on the way back (the strines for those who know them) would I get mid to high 30's mpg and would you trust the generally reliability of the freelander not to leave my wife stranded in the middle of no where.
I know the vcu and ird issues which I believe improved after 2002 so would be swaying towards a face lift issue.
But these don't make the car 'break down' do they?
My couple of years of the old freelander were reliable other than electric windows and bits like that.
Just trying to weigh up
Giulietta
I owe £8k on it
41.5mpg
£30 a year tax
Vs
Freelander
Prob cost £4k
£245 tax
Mpg ?
Happier wife
Sorry just thinking out loud in all this
