While I was in England this time Picked up an imaculate 55 plate 2door with turbo problem for 500 quid. took new turbo with us towed it five miles to nearest lay by son and I changed turbo in two and a half hours roadside with hippo ramps. so now my son has a really nice freelander for 659...

Father inlaws 2003 2 door well over 260000 now still pulls like a train still giving 42mpg + on motorway 32mpg round town

My father inlaws 2003 had 173000 on clock before VCU change never went of road, now has 248000 on clock. my wifes 2002 had 138000 before VCU began to tighten another one never of road.

Black smoke on sticking your boot into it is over fueling most common cause is turbo pipes loose or split. Problems with turbo smoke tends to be grey white depending on how bad turbo seals are and how much oil is being dumped into system . Think turbo begins to boost at about 1250 rpm just when...

Mine is velcroed

+1 my TD4s have both been running without back plates for over 18 months no problem

When this happened on my L series back box rubber went pulling apart from pipe put it all back with new rubber strange whirring sound from engine increasing as revs went up turned out to be leak/ blow in flexible pipe on exhaust.

Whine or Whistle, Whine check belts , Whistle as you have changed all pipes check all turbo pipes for tightness use some soapy water look for bubbles even small leak gives turbo whistle.

Bit more info TD4 or L series, Clacking continuous under load or intermittent.

Last time I did a headlight change I found the internet address of breakers networks in Spain and France and left a request for one offside headlight within hours I had messages listing half a dozen sources with contact details. Of course when I rang them they all said they only sold in pairs...

Pick yourself up some rover 75 door locks half the price of Freelander locks same part number

Truck has been standing awhile, took it out today started fine driving round town perfect good throttle response turned onto trunk road N340 hard exceleration in third clouds of black unburnt fuel clearing as revs increased, back into built up area no smoke performs perfectly. Back home check...

Log in from wherever I am in the last 18 months Iran(difficult) Turkey Bulgaria Romania Germany France Spain, and of course Hastings St Osyth London

There are those that will tell you that 30s and 49s have different spray patterns ,they do it makes no difference. I have two 2003 .TD4s have one running 49s the other 30s, I defy anyone to tell the difference The one running 30s returns slightly better mileage The one running,49s is a better...

Slave cylinder the same and yes you need to change the clutch over the last eighteen months I have changed three TD4 clutches on each I used LUK kits, at the same time I replaced the dual mass flywheels with solid flywheels as there not really essential again you can by the complete conversion...

There are Ukranian tech I use reads my 2003 Freelander,s with his laptop no problem will try to get name of his software.

I have over the last eighteen months changed clutches on Three TD4s have used LUK Solid flywheel clutch conversion kits. rip out the dual mass setup as a matter of course now.

Last year picked up a LHD 2003 TD4 manual three door that had been Tropicalised noticed it lacked a little grunt low down but was much more responsive at higher motorway speeds and was returning 36mpg urban 47mpg autopista. When removing manifold for cleaning happened to look at injector tops...

The joke in Germany is if you want to view an X5 take a trip on the autobahn theres plenty at the side of the road

Hope he has recovery on speed dial