It is a bit mad but i think you get used to it. My worst experience was towing a 5.5m boat through Athens in the Monday morning rush hour a few months ago - even my faithful GPS gave up the ghost and kept saying 'recalculating' until I switched the bl**dy thing off and went back to signposts!

Great, thanks for all the help!!! It really gives me something to work with when trying to get the problem repaired at my local garage. Although I might just wait until the summer when I can get it done in the UK. The good thing about having the Freelander is that the island I am on, Lesvos...

Great thanks for the advice, is it likely to be a big job?

When I change gears on my Freelander Xedi there is a thump noise that feels as if someone has belted the back of the car with a mallet - unless I really ride the clutch. Any ideas what it could be? I am down in Greece and Freelanders aren't that common here so it would be great to have a few...

Just to finish this off - I went to a garage and it turned out that the hand pump was not working which is why the fuel wouldn't go through the filter - need to get a new hand pump!

No, I was really careful. For some reason the hand pump didn't seem to be pushing fuel into the filter?

I seem to be doing something wrong trying to change the fuel filter on my Freelander xedi 1999. I disconnected the old fuel filter, attached the new filter, tightened the connections and then started pumping the inline hand pump to fill the filter with fuel and bleed it through the screw at...