jedi
Well-Known Member
The doors fall off when you get the car wet......
Thats why I hav`nt washed mine since a bought it a month ago, I`m looking for 5 spares just incase they do. Do I just super glue them back on?
The doors fall off when you get the car wet......
Thats hillarious .did you come up with that one all on your own?
just wanted to add to this, i pulled a cherokee out of the snow in december with my TD4
I drove up to andorra today in a white out and got up with ease Just with snow tyres when others where in the ditch or freezing their fingers of with snow chains, out of curiosty i tried to wheel spin on a empty car Park and had perfect traction in 10cm of snow. Great 4x4 Just a shame with the ground clearanceSomeone I know has been slating me for buying a Freelander. I got one to get to hospital in the deep snow. They say I should have gotten a JEEP Cherokee according to them.
They were also saying the Freelander is liable to get stuck in the snow as it doesn't have a low range gear box, or 4 wheel drive lock. (Now this makes sense and I won't deny it makes our car inferior to a JEEP off-road). But......from reading this forum this doesn't seem to be the case when in snow/ice, which, mechanically is kind of weird if you think about it.
Infact, some people on here say their Freelander is better than a Disco in the snow, which is incredible without the functions the Disco is blessed with.
On another car forum someone was saying the Freelander is terrible in the snow, as unlike other 4X4's (or do they mean cars?) we can't turn our traction control off, so in the ICE would go round in circles as only grip might get sent to one wheel that isn't spinning. I must say, this rather worries me.
So in your view, how on earth does the Freelander cope in the snow/ice if:
1) Can't turn traction control off
2) Can't force 50/50 4x4 function/lock
3) Can't go into low range
Is it because it's light weight and has 'skinny' 215 section tyres? (Great for snow compared to thick 255 on other bigger 4X4).
Apparently 'thin' tyres are better for snow/ice than normal size ones the car comes supplied with. Mine are 235, a tad wide.
Is it because it has 'little' 15/16 inch wheels? Apparently 17/18/19 makes snow/ice driving difficult as it alters the gearing or something? And for winter this is apparently bad news. If you think about it, the Landrover 90/Defender does indeed, have tiny little wheels, just with massive profile tyres.
Is it because the traction control on a Freelander, doesn't actually work like a car, or other 4x4's, and somehow it prevents power only being sent to 1 wheel (e.g. if all other 3 are spinning in the ice).
I'd love to know, because other than people telling me my car is crap all the time (or 'gay'), I'm happy with it - even if I am potentially foolish for believing it can plow through 2 feet of snow laying ontop of tarmac that hopefully will save my life when needed. (The only reason I bought it and why I'll get a lift-kit and snow tyres for next winter).
My Freelander the times we whizzed off to hospital in the recent snow, did struggle but it had a 3 Continental 4x4 contact (M&S) 215/50/18 tyres on, and 1 Dunlop SP Sport 01 summer tyre and we still got to A&E, if in somewhat of a blind panic.
Yet you guys trust your car, and I think I trust mine as you do.
(If that makes sense).
That is a wildly sweeping statement, usually made by numpties and often wrong.A 2 wheel drive with with cold weather tyres will beat a 4 wheel drive vehicle on summer or many AT tyres.
Also untrue.A 4x4 with winter tyres is almost unstoppable.
Sorry but that isn't correct either. Cornering and slowing/stopping can both be enhanced with AWD.A 4x4 will only help you move off. It doesn't help you go round corners or stop. The tyres do that.
But you can use traction to attain grip and AWD always does this better than 2wd.AWD gives you traction
Tyres give you grip
Big difference between the two