I was planning just a mini trip, ferry from newcastle to stavenger then work my way up to hammerfest stopping at most of the towns in between, think it is roughly 1500 miles from stavenger to hammerfest so was planning to take maybe a week to get there, does anyone have any advice on the state...

Do you know what he has actually removed from underneath ? If the back wheels feel wobbly has he removed the back driveshafts as well as the prop shaft ?

yeah buy the standard 1 and put the rest of the money towards a VCU or IRD, cause 1 of them is bound to break soon :D

Yeah it does start on the passenger side, need to tell the girlfriend to stop talking so much

Does anyone 1 else get this happening as soon as it starts raining the windows steam up on the inside and you have to put the fan on 3 or 4 to try and keep the windscreen clear, or open a window a bit, why does this happen ?

The starter worked fine till I switched the ignition off , thats when it started cranking, with the key at position 0 , It hasnt done it again since, so fingers crossed it behaves for the moment,

Its really up to you, some people on here will tell you they are great others will tell you to stay well clear and certain ones will tell you to set fire to it :D Freelanders do have their faults but a lot of people like them

Got a strange problem with my Freelander today , turned the ignition, usual ilghts on the dash but turned the key and nothing happened, turned it back and tried again and it started fine, went to turn it off and engine kept turning as if trying to start, turn the key back to position 2 and egine...

I would think the different ratios are because of the different torque outputs of the engine

could be your slave cylinder isnt separating the clutch plate enough. usually reverse is 1 of the first gears to be difficult to get when this starts to go

To give me something to tie the door frame to so it doesnt fall off :D

Come on it wasnt that funny,

Does anyone have a snorkel fitted to their freelander ? I have the L series engine, I had seen a snorkel for a V6 for sale but surely it shudnt be too hard to modify the air intake to reach it, or is there a universal one that would do it ?

you should be able to move it a very short distance at slow speed , wouldnt advise trying to drive it incase it locks up completely, my reapir bill was £1000 for my IRD

Sounds just like when my IRD gave up, clonking as if something is grabbing inside the box as the shaft turns.

Depends what engine it is, if it is the L series it will have a belt and if it is the TD4 it has a chain

Think the basic blocks are the same but there will be a lot of other differences between the 2 engines

Dont have those spot lights any more, 1 got broken so fitted a set of smaller ones which are rubbish, leaving them on to cover the holes in the bumper until i get round to doing the facelift to it and get a colour coded bumper and new style headlights

yup the 1 in the pic is mine, 50th anniversary model

Well remembered I have got a L- series , which are great engines, had a rover 600 with 1 in and it, had 170,000 miles on it when I sold it never broke down,