Investigated my heated rear window - found the entire patch of element around the left hand side connector up to the strip elements had worn away ..glass taken out and painted approx 2 inch square with conductive paint ...I'll see if it has worked tomorrow.
 
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I fitted my new tinted indicators.
I was told Land Rover only put them on their special edition versions & I've done so much to my Freelander its a very special edition!!!
 
Took it for its MOT! Had fingers crossed! But no need as it passed first time!!!!

They also did me a massive favour and managed to clear my fault codes!! Apparently the ecu was just storing and not clearing them hence why the light has been on for a year! .

But all sorted now! So glad that light is off!
 
After waiting for just over a month to complete the necessary red tape - mine is now on the road. And I'm really pleased with it :)
 

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well collected my new bush set today :)



but the grease that was ment to be with it was missing :-(

any ideas what grease it should be???? silicone??????
 
I guess it depends on the tooling you have available. I milled out the old bushes, so not a problem to get the old ones out. I took some now and then. So cant give you exactly the time i used. But i found the big bush on the wishbone to be most difficult because it was very hard to fasten it to the work table. Ended up using a bearing puller to get it out of the housing.
 
Someone told me the polly bushes arnt always that good of an idea, asthe current rubbers are designed to degrade 1st so by swapping them for polly your just moving the wear n tear further down the line to something more critical, which id say on a freelander isnt such a great idea?
 
thequeenscheese said:
Someone told me the polly bushes arnt always that good of an idea, asthe current rubbers are designed to degrade 1st so by swapping them for polly your just moving the wear n tear further down the line to something more critical, which id say on a freelander isnt such a great idea?
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Complete poppycock.
The poly bush locates the suspension components more securely under compression but allows the to rotate more freely.
There's nothing to transfer the loadings to, that isn't plenty strong enough.
 
I think rally cars use poly bushes too & they wouldn't want stresses put through to vital components that would be expensive to fix.
 
I drove it to work, checking that the eml doesn't reappear! So far so good!!
It evens feels like it's driving better!!! Phsycological? Or maybe faults were causing a mild limp mode?
 
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