As a Prestige Valeter id reccomend trying a good reputable local Valeter. If you want to do it yourself though and have the time then get on a well known auction site and look for 2 products, Bio brisk and odourcon. Both of these are from autosmart and they work really well. The bio brisk (and...

I have just done the same, sold the FL TD4 for a Dico 3 2.7TDV6. awesome car. Could not believe the difference in tax and insurance prices aswell as mpg. heres what i paid and am getting MPG FL-33 mpg Disco-31 mpg Year tax FL-£285 Disco-£285 and here is the most unreal price gap ever...

The disco has arrived! wish id have bought it a long time ago. Goes to show proof there is no such thing as a bad landy!. Poorly maintained and annoying ones yes but definatley not Bad. I get the funny feeling that's me totally hooked on landys now.

ah well never mind its all done now. I just felt i was constantly throwing money at it. The wife wouldn't drive it any more and has stolen my Audi instead. Dont get me wrong it wasn't a bad car, it did what i needed it to do while i had it. But with more money needed to be spent and cramming a...

yeah unfortunatley it came to that, i couldnt justify the prices with continued issues. everytime i had fixed something then something else would break without fail! To be honest id put a lot of money into something that continued to cause problems. the ins and outs are... bought the 03 td4...

luckily i can weld! its the electrics im more concerned with as ive got a disco 3

sold it

So after the hippo developing a bad clutch slip now,having a wheel bearing start to go and needing new tyres, i priced up the job. Due to it going to cost significantly more than the car is worth i have sold the FL. Thanks to everyone here in the freelander section of the forum for all your help...

The handbrake on switch can be bought from places like rimmer bros for about a tenner for a non genuine one. I got one for £7 from a scrap yard, did the trick for me but the light can also come on, as the others say, if the fluid level switch is faulty or dirty. Also mke sure the fluid is well...

Gald to hear your ok. it does show how tough the hippo is though doesnt it!

perfectly normal yes. although if you have never felt it before and your not expecting the usual reaction is a cry of 'what the f*** was that'!

dont use kwik fit! i dont trust them as far as i can throw them. I bought my hippo in november and it was MOT'd by crap fit in october ( the car had done 12 miles between the mot and me buying it. Anyhow with one advisory of a worn tyre i purchased the car and took it home. I decided to take off...

im running 195/80 r15 aswell. all 4 are the same and all at 30 psi. they do look a little soft but they handle and feel so much better then when i got the freelander and the garage had them at 38psi!

upping the game TD4 5door!

is there any smoke at all from the exhaust when it does fire up?

sounds to me like either there is air in the system or even the adjuster strut in the rear brake drum has colapsed. it would result in a hard pedal first push then nothing intil the adjuster has either been fixed or readjusted itself. If it is the adjuster then it can take a good half hour of...

possibly the throttle housing? this happened to me exactly the same on an old focus. turned out there was soething wrong with the idle and the throttle body. so just check the housing and asociated items such as the air intake hose, idle air control valve and hose, throttle position sensor and...

yeah done the disconnect and no luck, will need to either get a reader or to the garage once ive given some sensors the once over i think. I think i may invest in a new battery just to be on the safe side though. it seems to be a strong battery as after a quick jump start and having it ticking...

yeah, id be interested to know too

damn! lots of ideas guys, think i need to take out a bank loan!