I am considering buying a Land Rover Freelander 1, late issue with the TD4 engine. Need to do some research; here are my notes and links
Links
- Wikipedia, their Free Lander page
- “Driving, review”, questions reliability and maintenance budgets
- Review at the Land Rover Owner’s site, a comprehensive piece of advice which repeats Driving’s advice
- A forum thread at Landyzone on miles/tank, 450 – 500
I cam to the conclusion that its reliability reputation and the fact it was discontinued made this a poor choice.
A couple of Videos
Whoever did this loved it, and
Also Damiano Caschili speaks well of it for Top Gear
The problem areas seem to be,
- Ground Clearance, although opinion be divided, not for serious off roading, which we don’t do but a couple of our tracks are quite rutty
- Brakes & ABS, this should be OK it,s 4 wheel drive FFS
- Reliability, this is an old design test everything works
- One of the seat covers is torn
On the other hand
- Rear Door Hinge is on the side
ooOOOoo
Image Credit: PD