Many thanks Nodge68 and Zefrench for your very helpful answers.

My Freelander V6 has its thermostat stuck shut, and I'm waiting to get time to do the job. I had an email with the latest offers from Rimmers, and the MG Rover KV6 (genuine MGR part) thermostat is currently on offer for £23.94 inc VAT, whereas the Land Rover KV6 stat is listed at £57.36. I would...

5 7 Reg KV6. Bought from a dealer in July with 45k recorded miles and now has covered 47k. The one previous owner to myself was Conrico, who are a Jaguar Land Rover dealer and who sold it at auction to the dealer I bought it from. Faults so far: Leaking water pump. I had this and the cam belts...

I agree completely. I didn't express myself very well, but the pump is being changed too. I am having the noise checked by the technician who's doing the cam belt change. He feels confident he can get to the bottom of the problem. He cheerfully told me "Don't worry, after all it's only nuts and...

I haven't looked very carefully at the pump itself, but have a Rover KV6 which had a thermostat housing leak (the ultrasonic weld had failed). The result there was coolant in the V of the engine. The Freelander has no coolant in the V, but it has run down onto the oil filter and sump cover...

Thanks Hippo and Nodge68, I looked at both this site and the Rover 75 / MG ZT forum and followed the advice for level checking there. I only did a partial drain of the auto gbox oil, draining just short of 4 litres of oil and replacing this amount plus 500 mL with fresh fluid. I then idled...

Thanks for the reply. Yes, it has aircon, but I didn't think that I had the switch selected.

I have recently joined the ranks of Freelander owners with a late KV6 auto (after reading some of the posts I may have made a mistake...). It has a number of problems which I'm going to get around to gradually. Today, some time after changing the Jatco gbox oil, I backed the car out of the...