Lloyd90 Posted April 13, 2018 Report Share Posted April 13, 2018 Are they as unreliable and costly as the other Land Rover products? or are they decent? Id like to get a shooting vehicle, I have a 15 plate Focus to sell / swap, value I imagine is around the £8k mark, now I could add to this if needed. Ideally as good a mpg as possible as I do some visits for work, although I’ve just changed jobs and atm am a 4 minute drive to my new job , when I do go on visits I get 45p a mile. I did consider a pickup but the mpg on ones I’ve seen aren’t as good and the Freelander seems like it could be used more when not needed for Shooting (the vast majority of my driving). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chesterse Posted April 13, 2018 Report Share Posted April 13, 2018 Had one for eight years and it has been a really good all round vehicle. Not much expense outside of regular servicing. Get about 36 mpg in the winter and up to 40 mpg in the summer, don’t drive it hard though. Tows well, good off road and a quiet comfortable cruiser on the motorway. Would not know what to replace it with at the moment. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
B725 Posted April 13, 2018 Report Share Posted April 13, 2018 Mine has been the best of 5 LR's that I have had £49 in repairs in 7 year's I cannot fault it, look on www.freel2.com Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
martindd Posted April 13, 2018 Report Share Posted April 13, 2018 I've had two one manual now an auto no problems so far 5yrs, not great fuel economy but that's to be expected. Martin Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShootingEgg Posted April 13, 2018 Report Share Posted April 13, 2018 Lloyd90 ylu drove mine so know how they drive. And only issue i have is the Bluetooth has stopped working, but means I dont use phone in car now so not all bad. As said 35-40mpg and good all rounder. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fishing Richie Posted April 13, 2018 Report Share Posted April 13, 2018 I keep looking at these myself. Based on my own 'Hard Shoulder servey' I can't remember seeing one broken down, unlike the Mk1 version. Having spoken to my own garage only yesterday (who maintain a lot of LR's) they are definitely more reliable and in their words probably the most reliable LR ever made. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steve_b_wales Posted April 14, 2018 Report Share Posted April 14, 2018 Mine has just turned 10 years old,bought from new. I have a GS TD4. Only recently spent money on it, and that was for a new timing belt/water pump and a rear shock absorber. I've got 17 inch general grabbed a/t 2's fitted which are excellent on and off road. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
team tractor Posted April 14, 2018 Report Share Posted April 14, 2018 (edited) My t6 works out at around 66p a mile doing 31mpg on average inc servicing , tyres, brakes etc. So 45p a mile would still cost me. ive just had a terrios off here as a shooting bus that I can scratch and not worry about. £750 and it’s proving brilliant already . Shame it’s costing that to insure and tax . 4x4 sales or the free lander group on Facebook has loads for sale and top advice about them. Dont forget if you look at a pickup they are commercial on the insurance and it’s not cheap. On average for me a l200 was £2-300 more a year ( double) Edited April 14, 2018 by team tractor Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BSA-airgunner Posted April 14, 2018 Report Share Posted April 14, 2018 (edited) 5 years so far and love it ... Edited April 14, 2018 by BSA-airgunner Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lloyd90 Posted April 14, 2018 Author Report Share Posted April 14, 2018 Automatic or manual? What’s the main difference between the models? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
al4x Posted April 14, 2018 Report Share Posted April 14, 2018 The outlaws and a few mates have them. The outlaws needed a diff rebuild last year at 50k which seems fairly common. Not that expensive, a mates has had a few electrical gremlins they have been a nightmare used to just refuse to start from time to time. I believe in the end they changed the dash as it was probably linked to the electronics thinking the steering wheel lock was on. That was reasonably expensive but his only real fault. They seem fine really and hold value well Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seph234 Posted April 17, 2018 Report Share Posted April 17, 2018 My Dads had his about 4 years, and its been Good. the only problem he has had and it was last week, the plastic cog stripped its teeth on the throttle body. fixed in a hour. so not terrible. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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