Hi All, Well after taking all of your advice and deciding that it's just not meant to be I rang the dealer today out of courtesy just to tell him this and he tells me that he has reassembled the proshaft and that he's had his mechanic round and the reason it had been disconnected is because...

Thanks again for all the help and advice everyone, I'm gonna take it and walk away from this one! Out of curiosity though, how would I know if the IRD was knackered as this one drove really well as a 2wd? Also Austen, is the V6 really as bad as the K series with regard to Head gaskets, I...

Oh BTW, quite fancy a TD4 but they seem to be a bit on the pricey side and the OH isn't keen on the noise... :rolleyes:

Cheers guys, I'm not too worried if it is just the VCU thats gone becasue it is already off so replacing it with one from Bell wouldn't be too bad but my fear is that when the VCU went it may have taken something else with it and am not sure how I'd know without hooking it all back up, any...

Hi Guys, Cracking forum you've got here, I've just signed up as we have decided we want to get a Freelander as the better halfs daily driver and for weekends away camping with our puppy that we're getting in a few weeks. We have decided that ideally we would like a 3 door V6 and I viewed one...