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Hello all, Hope you are all safe and well at this difficult time. At the moment I am doing a delivery round in a rural area to people who are not able to get out. Curremtly I am using my old Rover 75 diesel but due to the rough terrain in some of the lanes, it's really not suitable. As I will be doing this for the foreseable future I was thinking about getting a diesel freelander in place of the rover. It wont be a top of the range vehicle I would be buying just something hopefully reliable to use as a workhorse. The ground clearance being a lot better was my first though and in bad weather some of the areas are going to prove challenging for the old rover. I dont know anything really about the freelander other than the td4 uses the same engine as the rover. I have owned discos and rangies in the past but not had anything to do with freelanders. What should I look out for ? . Is rust an issue underneath like other land rovers ? What could I expect realistically mpg to be bearing in mind there is lots of stop start during the deliveries. Any advice you can give me would be greatly appreciated. Thanks and stay safe everyone.

Finally road tested the car and it' running the best it has ever done. It appears it was probably pipes to the fuel filter housing fitted the wrong way round. Thanks for the replies. Cheers Neil

Sorry for not getting back sooner sierrafery . I think it' sorted. To answer your question yes the pump was running . I had flow from the low pressure side of the pump,but no low pressure return. I am presuming that's why I had no feed coming from the high pressure side as I presume the low pressure side of the pump feeds the high pressure side. I got underneath and traced all the fuel lines to check they were going to the filter head in the correct positions. Turns out the return from the fuel cooler and the low pressure return were on the wrong sees of the filter. The car has always run like a pig since I owned it. Now I know why! Swapped pipes over and eventually with the help of jump leads and my van we got it running ( after lots of cranking and purging . ) we removed the air bleed valve during swapping pipes over just to see if it made any difference. I have now re-fitted a new one as there was lots of air in the fuel lines again after leaving it overnight and was a pig to start. She started no problem this morning so here' hoping it' sorted now. Haven't road tested yet but the miss-fire has gone now . I will be testing it today so will let you know how it goes later. Thanks for your replies. Cheers Neil

It' been a while but eventually got round to doing a bit more investigating on the disco. I tested the fuel pressure as suggested and got a reading of 4 bar but I thought I would swap over the pump just to rule it out. I took out the fuel pump and got hold of another second had pump (vdo). At the same time I replaced the filter head and changed the valves inside too. Purged the fuel system she started with no problem, So took it for a spin. The replacement pump however was very noisy so wasn't sure how long it would last. The misfire however seemed to disappear! Great so i thought . About 5 mins later she started spluttering then cut out and refused to start . Managed to tow it home and set about re-fitting the original pump back in. She now refuses to start. I have no fuel pressure at all , I have removed the feed pipe to the fuel press reg and bugger all is coming out ! Tried the purge cycle and no amount of purging produces any fuel to the engine ! I have a quarter of a tank of diesel in which I would have thought was enough to get her going. I have also tried a new pump , checked and swapped relays, fuses,power supply etc. Please help before I torch this car !

Sorry for the late reply sierrafery. Yes they were adjusted correctly . My mate has some auto data software on his laptop and were adjusted to the specified tolerances. I will try some injector cleaner aswell see how it goes.

Hello all. Wondered if anyone can shed any light on an issue I seem to have with my Disco td5. I bought a Td5 disc a while back. It was a spares or repairs but was running and being used by the previous owner until the mot ran out. The guy I bougjtbit from said it was running but wasn't running right. He had changed the injector loom as there was oil in but had not cleaned the ecu plug out. So I put the problem down to this, not knowing much about the td5. I have now done all the jobs needed for mot and have started to focus on getting it running right. The problem seems to be there's what feels like a slight miss around 1700 rpm. It starts on the button and ticks over fine . I have cleaned out the ecu plugs , fitted a de-egr plate . Cleaned the map sensor replaced the mass air flow sensor as the other one was faulty. Changed the injector washers and o rings. I have plugged in my hawkeye and it shows no faults . Checked the live data and everything seems ok apart from the cylinder roughness which fluctuates quite a bit at the point where the miss starts approx 1700rpm. It blows no smoke at all even when the misfire starts. I have also checked the injector codes and they are all correct and in the same position as the hawkeye says. Does anyone else have any suggestions on what I could next. (Apart from hit it with something heavy or set fire to it !) Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Thanks Neil