Newish Freelander TD4

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Tue 18 Apr 2006 14:19
Newish Freelander TD4 - turbo11
Friend is considering purchase of nearly new(04 reg+) Td4 freelander.Not my cup of tea and don,t know much about them myself.Anybody out there know about any potential problems to look for?.
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Tue 18 Apr 2006 15:16
Newish Freelander TD4 - Ian (Cape Town)
Might I suggest Truthful Peter's vehicle-by-vehicle listing? *grin*
Simply hit the car-by-car button on the left of the screen, and HJ will tell you all about it.

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Tue 18 Apr 2006 15:35
Newish Freelander TD4 - No FM2R
In which the following line appears....

"By 1994 second failures of previously repaired 1.8s on 1997 - 2000 Freelanders due to bore liners dropping and a shortage of used replacement engines was putting a lot of them off the road"

1994 ??
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Tue 18 Apr 2006 15:38
Newish Freelander TD4 - Ian (Cape Town)
C'Mon...
Just look at the length of HJ's report, and the Looonnnng list of recalls, shake your head, and walk away ....
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Tue 18 Apr 2006 16:58
Newish Freelander TD4 - local yokel
...to a Honda CRV or Nissan X-Trail, perhaps?
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Tue 18 Apr 2006 17:09
Newish Freelander TD4 - turbo11
was the TD engine made by/designed when BMW owned rover?
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Tue 18 Apr 2006 19:39
Newish Freelander TD4 - type's'
I believe the Td4 is a BMW engine.
But still agree with the rest of the thread - walk away.
I appreciate this is a specific issue but a colleague had one (Td4) - 1 month out of warranty and the fuel pumps went (apparently they have 3 in total and 2 failed - I think) - anyway Landrover charged him a fortune to fix - forget good will they do not know the meaning - also know some friends of friends who have had them and every one has a horror story to tell
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Tue 18 Apr 2006 17:04
Newish Freelander TD4 - No FM2R
No; "1994" as in "I don't think they made them then!"

As for the Freelander itself, I can't say I'm all that keen on it.
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Tue 18 Apr 2006 17:33
Newish Freelander TD4 - Roly93
My neighbours wife had a realy nice 1.8 Freelander from almost new. The other week I was speaking to them and she now drives a Pug 307 the same age as the Freelander. When I asked why, they said that the issues with the Freelander were so persiostent that they just got-rid even though effectively losing at lot of money.
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Tue 18 Apr 2006 19:41
Newish Freelander TD4 - type's'
Oh and just to add to my comment above - I had a CRV once and it was great - but HJ reckons that if you do need some off road capability with good on road manners then buy an X-trail
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