Land Rover Freelander TD4

ive hd my 55 plate freelander for 5.5yrs ad wont change it for anything its a great practical 4x4 as well as a runaround i tow my horse box with it its the 3 door so its also aconvertible in the summer as well .I love this car the interior is half leather easy to clean and very hard wearing with just a wipe over looks like new again.he leg room is great .This is a freestyler so got a few extras the insurance is low as well .I brought this with 16000 miles on from main dealer its now done 68000 all ive spent is new tyres and serviceing every year .i wont be changing this i love it would recomend to any one.

bought from new (car supermarket 15k ) just after the freelander 2 came in. 40 mile drive to work on country lanes and plenty of cattle grids, so ideal for the freelander.

at 800 ft usually get snow and once blew it and slid into a ditch, in a foot of snow, but just reversed out. who says freelanders aren't proper 4x4s. ok it's not a defender but it ain't bad.

it has a regular service with a local independent garage and apart from anti roll bar links and new disks/drums from time to time hasn't had to have anything significant. usually returns about 35mpg but got 42 on a trip to London over Christmas, helped probably by very slow trip back on the m6.

Secret seems to be to use it and it seems very happy with its 400 miles a week.

Only bad point really is the underfloor well in the boot, keeps getting wet. Other than that, it's great, hope it lasts for another couple of years.

Had a Freelander 1.8 Petrol, cost £7500, spent £3500 in repair bills, sold as scrap 3 years after buying it for £850 as I could not sell it. If you want to loose a lot of money buy a Freelander 1.8 Petrol. My advice buy another 4x4 preferably not a Land Rover

BEEN A LANY FAN SINCE OWNING A 110 V8 GREAT MOTOR,2 MONTHSAGO BOUGHT A 2004 FREELANDER TD4 FROM PREMIER MOTORS ROSSENDALE SHORT MOT BUT SEEMED OK,THEN THE MAF SENSOR PACKED IN £90,LEAK ON BACK DOOR AND 1 REAR PASSENGER DOOR WINDOW MOTOR MISSING,FOLDING SEAT CATCH BROKE,THEN THE MOT DUE ALL BRAKE PIPES REPLACED BUT WHEEL CYLINDER AND FLEXI PIPE DAMAGED WHILE PIPES FITTED OTHER BITS WIPERS AND LIGHTS MOT REPAIR £185 GOT FED UP NOW COULD BE GOOD NOW BITS DONE BUT I`M FED UP WITH IT ENGINE HAS PLENTY OF POWER,DOORS A BIT RESTRICTING GETTING IN AND NOT MUCH STORAGE ROOM MY OLD 98 HONDA CRV WAS A FAR BETTER CAR

Bought my TD4 6 months ago with 90 thou on the clock and a service history expected to see another 50 thousand miles before any trouble came along. Right now its in bits with a leaky injector pump. Bought it because the BMW engine was supposed to have fixed all the problems of earlier cars. Probably the worst car I have ever owned. I will never buy anything with Landrover written on it again. VW, Honda, Peugeot, Citroen, Mitsubishi have all served me well.

I would seriously recommend avoiding Freelander TD4. Its not only me, since buying it I have come across some horror stories. Its not the cost of purchase but the cost of keeping it running. You need a second car as well, to drive while the Freelander doesn't work!!!!

So what is good about it - er........

I got the car after having a smaller 4x4 with a proper chassis, as i wanted something newer and more comfortable, and have always liked the freelander. After looking at several, i decided that the petrol one had too many engine problems, so choose the bmw engined TD4. The car has now done 160,000 miles and the engine still pulls strong, i only use mobile oil and use bosch oil and air filters and a BWM crankcase filter (cheaper and better than the landrover one) The cost of the oil change etc is about £100 every 10,000 miles. The car has been pretty reliable since i got it, but i had had to replace all but one of the electric windows and the cable rusted and broke on each of them. THis is a common problem but is cheap and easy to fix using new regulators or if you want the cheaper route, a replacement wire fit. Regulators cost between 90 for the rear down to 50 for the front, replacement wire kits 20. Other things to look out for are the anti roll bar drop links that cost £13 each and fail frequently. The viscous coupling should be replaced every 70,000 miles otherwise it can ut strain on the tranfer box, cost of this is between 300-800 depending on where its brought, but cheaper than a new transfer box!

Im in two minds is i should change or not, as its comfortable, reliable and fairly economical compared to other cars the same size and type, usually get 42mpg ish, and more on a longer run, which i do every now and again (500 mile round trips in a day)

We brought the Freelander following a poor decision to buy a convertible Astra not because it was a bad car but because we had two small children at the time in child seats and straight away it became obvious that this car was not going to be suitable. This is when I had decided that we needed something allot bigger to suit our needs and I had narrowed the choice down to a Honda CR-V or the Freelander, the Freelander won because it looked better inside and out, looking like it was fit for purpose even if the farthest it would go off road was a supermarket car park! It was absolutely ideal for lifting the kids in and out of the back as you didn't have to stoop whilst carrying the children, as they have grown up the side steps have proven a useful addition helping them to step in and out of the car. There is bags of room in the rear of the car enough for 3 large adults to be carried over journeys lasting 3 or 4 hours in complete comfort, we have a screen attached to the roof that plays DVD’s for the children on long trips and my wife has taken the option to sit in the middle so she can also watch the films on several occasions without complaint. A year or so after purchase I brought a caravan and have towed this on several occasions down to Cornwall for a week and then onto Dorset, the Freelander has never skipped a beat, fully loaded up in the boot, towing the caravan and with bikes attached to the back, I can’t recommend it highly enough as a towing vehicle. I have also been building an extension at home and the Freelander has shown just how versatile it can be, I’ve had pretty much a full pack of bricks in the back, 5 or 6 fire plaster boards on the roof and the way the rear window drops has proved most useful when picking up lengths of pipes and bits of wood which can just protrude out of the rear tailgate window, shame it’s not on the newer model. In the snow the vehicle really showed its merit when I came across a humpbacked bridge that was compacted in thick snow and a queue of vehicles including some reputable 4x4’s failing to get up it, the Freelander drove straight to the top with the only concern once there the sudden realisation that I had to go down the other side, it did this with ease as the traction control grabbed each wheel preventing the car from going into a skid, much to the delight of the small boys watching on the wall close by. Things I would change, the pocket on the back door is pointless and protrudes into the boot making it awkward to close sometimes, can’t think of anything else off hand. I felt compelled to write this review because the Freelander always seems to pick up poor reviews but my experience so far, 40,000 miles has been a good one and the car has proved most versatile adapting to everything thrown at it, expense so far, normal service costs and 2 rear tyres.

I bought my vehicle two years ago and it was beautiful, drove real nice, fell in love. Then things started happening about 3 months later. First the right back window stopped working, then the hatchback window stopped, now the left back window doesn't work. My mechanic wanted about 900 bucks to fix the problem. All parts are very expensive, just to change the oil cost me about 100 bucks every 3 months. Next my car just died while I was driving, towed to mechanic and told the timing belt busted and the engine needed to be replaced. After doing research after I bought the car, there's so many bad reviews I found. Lesson learned by me now is to do some research and read reviews before buying another vehicle. I would not suggest anyone to buy this pile of sh**

We got our freelander td4 2l es after getting bored with run of the mill cars,best thing we ever did,we love everything about it,from it's luxury interior to it performance,especially in snow, sometimes they get bad reviews and horror stories,if you don't like them,don't get one,stick to a boring car,that also has problems,but without the fun and performance of the freelander,we are looking to get the new freelander 2 soon,will never go back to a car again,we've been bitten by the bug!

HI HAD MY FREELANDER FROM NEW GOT IT FOR THE NAME OF RELIABILITY , THE CAR WAS GOOD FOR FOUR YEAS THEN THE OIL COOLER WENT, THEN THE ALTERNATER BELT WENT, AND LITTLE THINGS , AND NOW THE CLUCH HAS GONE WITH ONLY 55 THOUSEND MILES ? IT SHOULD HAVE DONE AT LEAST 120 THOUSEND OR MORE . I HAVE NEVER HAD A CAR THAT THE CLUTCH HAS GONE IN MY LIFE , AND BYEING NEW THOUGHT I NEVER WOULD ? SO MUTCH FOR LANDROVER AND RELIABILITY ? ITS THE TD4 2L DIESEL. GOOD LUCK TO THEM THAT BYE ONE .PETER FROM NORTH YORKSHIRE .