Pretty common issue to be honest

Buy the plastic wheel.kit and fix it

I'm no expert but my crystal ball says " it's fecked mate"

Rtfm

They lied

Fix it properly

You need to look at the blower resistor it's the most common cause

Yes terrano, it's the exact same fuel system. Bosch VE fuel injection system.

It's on here somewhere

Poss the common leak at the back of the engine left hand side as you look at it there is a push fit connector. It leaks down the back of the engine and evaporates so hard to find its a cheap part I always carry 1 in the car.

Get ur self a fluid vac save your self a lot of pain

The original freelander 3 was rebadged, discovery sport. JLR wanted to move away from the freelander brand which was a shame fl1 and fl2 were/are pretty good cars yes yes I know we all take the ****. The discovery sport however not so much.

No, moving on !

Springs should be fine, replace the bolts with new.

No it does not need coding the tdv8 and 5.0 can be tolled it's had a new battery fitted but it makes little difference