Dorsetfreelander
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Over the years I have been told by numerous garages that my pads are getting low when they are hardly worn. It seems to be a standard way of generating extra work, I challenged one and they said "yes we know but they probably won't last until the next service" !
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I bought one of these about 3 years go but it was nowhere near this price, I paid less than £30 I think inc postage.
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Got one too from ebay, matches leather interior. No interference with anything, mine is an automatic TD4 SE 04 reg.
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Has anyone any experience of fitting a Parrot hands free kit to a base mode ie "S" TD4 FL2? (The radio doesn't have bluetooth on this model) There is also a complication in that we don't know the radio code so don't want to disconnect it. Any suggestions anyone?
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Just got back from driving across France in my Freelander 1 04 reg TD4 auto and noticed that sometimes the aircon wasn't working. The light on the switch would be on but no cold air, then if I switch it off and back on again the cold air appears as normal. Any suggestions apart from check if the switch is actually working?
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If you have a branch of Mole Valley Farmers near, you should check out their Total Oils I have bought 5 litres of 5/30 Quartz 9000 fully synthetic for £20 and Quartz 7000 10/30 for £15.50. I have used them without problems in diesels.
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Sorry I meant 215/75 16 although a spacesaver would do.Hello, my son has just bought an 08 reg TD4 Freelander 2 S and needs a spare wheel. He is an Agronomist (look it up) and spends a lot of time driving around fields and farms and doesn't fancy getting stuck miles from the nearest road and reliant on the get you home kit. His current allow wheels have 217/75 16 tyres. Anyone got a cheap one (doesn't need to be new tyre or even an alloy wheel).. He travels around Dorset , Hampshire/Sussex/ Kent so could collect.
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Hello, my son has just bought an 08 reg TD4 Freelander 2 S and needs a spare wheel. He is an Agronomist (look it up) and spends a lot of time driving around fields and farms and doesn't fancy getting stuck miles from the nearest road and reliant on the get you home kit. His current allow wheels have 217/75 16 tyres. Anyone got a cheap one (doesn't need to be new tyre or even an alloy wheel).. He travels around Dorset , Hampshire/Sussex/ Kent so could collect.
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Does anyone know of an easy way to turn off the fuel burning heater on an 04 reg TD4 Freelander? It's only supposed to come on below 5C but seems to be on well above that ie most of the time. I guess there is a sensor problem but I would rather just disable it for now. Any suggestions?
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For what it's worth I have been researching a problem like this on a Renault Megane, it seems there is an accelerometer (under the seat in that case) which measures the yaw ie horizontal rotation of the car and which controls the brake force distribution and traction control. I might be worth looking to see if the Freelander 2 uses a system like this (it probably does since all this stuff comes from the same sources ie Bosch or similar) and seeing if the accelerometer has a fault or loose plug or something.
ps hands up all those who think this is all getting too complicated! We are driving cars on roads not travelling across the solar system.
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If you want some help I think a few more details would be useful like, is it petrol or diesel, which engine, is it an automatic, what have you done to the engine exactly etc etc.
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For what it's worth I had a similar problem when the battery on my 04 reg TD4 failed last year. On connecting the battery the rear window went down so I raised it up with the switch in the car and it seems to be OK. I then locked and unlocked the car a few times. It's been OK since.
incidentally does this help you? http://www.lro.com/forum3/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=44233&start=10
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Civil engineers don't use stainless steel for that very reason.
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Can't help except that evidently you can tell different types on engineers from how they do up nuts. An Aeronautical engineer will do it up just right with a torque wrench, a mechanical engineer will do the same and then give it an extra half turn. A civil engineer does it up with his fingers and lets it rust on.
You sound like the first type. Good luck.
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Be warned, there are two nuts on the gearbox which look like filler plugs, if you undo the wrong one a bit falls off inside and you lose reverse. The box has to be stripped down to fix it. see http://www.ashcroft-transmissions.co.uk/index.php?act=viewProd&productId=53.
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This might seem a bit off topic but I can offer two bits of feedback. First of all I have a Freelander 1 TD4 auto (no cruise control) and when I drive this in mountainous places like the French Alps there is a real problem with lack of engine braking and I get a similar effect to what you are seeing ie the car just goes faster and faster unless I intervene with either the brakes or the tiptronic gear lever in manual. If I touch the accelerator coming down a hill the gearbox seems to go into neutral. I believe there are five different modes of operation dependent upon recent driving style. I live at the bottom of a long hill and there is a real difference in the way the car behaves going down the hill depending on how you were driving just before you reached the top. You box is probably similar in concept.
The second point is that I used to have a Ford galaxy auto with cruise control that did what you are expecting and I found it very annoying that it would cruise up and down hills at constant speed using the gears liberally. The problem was a very noticeable effect on fuel consumption since it didn't gather speed going down and then roll up the next hill (if you see what I mean); in some cases the fuel consumption would be 50% higher using cruise control in hilly areas. I stopped using it except on motorways.
Sorry this doesn't refer to your particular car but I thought it might be useful.
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My son has worked in Zambia for a mining company and claims that they had new Landrover 110s with (presumably) Leyland engines and without any of the electronic control stuff in them. He was told that there was a stock of these vehicles for sale to places where you need to be able to fix it yourself without all the diagnostic stuff. Guess they wouldn't be road legal here for emission and safety reasons.
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From what you have said so far I wouldn't be certain at this stage that there is an abs fault. Does the speedometer still work ? (gets it info from the abs system on some models) have you had it on a diagnostic machine?
ps My wife's peugeot 207 recently had an abs ecu fault and we had warning messages and abs lights on and lost the speedo and (electric) power steering.
finally I didn't think they made TD4's in X reg.
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Hello, does anyone know when the last Freelander 1 were produced? I have an 04 reg TD4 auto with 68K trouble free miles and I am thinking about replacing it with one of the last Freelander 1 models (Freelander2 is too big for me and a bit overpriced too). I have seen a few 56 reg and wondered if there are any 07s about (and yes I have looked on autotrader).
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Looks like LandRover will become unaffordable for most of us.
Jaguar Land Rover is investing £5bn ($8.2bn) over the next five years to catch up on quality with BMW, Mercedes-Benz and Audi - the three German companies that dominate the luxury end of the automotive business globally. The money will be spent mainly on product development and new equipment at JLR's three UK plants, which together employ just over 17,000 people, with some of it likely to cover new investments at a planned factory in China, reports the Financial Times.
Incidentally I have recently discovered just how useful this forum is, my wife has a Peugeot 207 which has developed an abs ecu fault. All you seem to find on the forums are people asking how to fit go-faster stripes, boom boxes and fancy light clusters. Ask a technical question and you get nothing. Or does it say something more subtle about Landrover reliability perhaps?
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I can't answer you question directly but earlier Freelanders (ie pre BMW ownership) definitely had a different blower motor in the footwell. BMW put a bigger unit in (and it's still insufficient, my family always complain that the ventilation in the car is poor). unless yours is a TD4 it's probably got the smaller unit.
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I might be being a bit naive here and haven't seen the problem myself but is it not possible to use some 5mm steel washers as spacers to fill the gap between wheel and drum?
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Just done an 800 mile round trip from Dorset to Carlisle doing a steady 65/70 in my TD4 auto 04 reg mostly on the M5/M6. I calculated close to 40mpg!
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Does anyone know anything about disconnecting the fuel burning heater or even where the sensor is? The one on my 04 reg TD4 SE auto is coming on in temperatures up to around 15C instead of going off around 5C.
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Can anyone recommend a fault code reader
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I have just had a fault on a FL2 diagnosed at an independent LR specialist and he charged £45 +vat for the diagnostics. I was wondering if anyone can recommend something I can plug in to do this myself? We have a Freelander 1 and 2 at home.
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