Tell you what I have a 2008 HSE on the driveway.
Despite 75k (some very) hard miles totally creak free. Older less fuel efficient auto box is super smooth.

I'll do you a swap for your low mileage noisey, jerky, fuel efficient new wreck.











Only joking - no ones getting their mits on my lovely Clementine. Tangiers Orange - gone, missing her
Replaced by Ewok what a mistake - now a happy Disco Sport owner

Andy131 wrote:

Tell you what I have a 2008 HSE on the driveway.
Despite 75k (some very) hard miles totally creak free. Older less fuel efficient auto box is super smooth.

I'll do you a swap for your low mileage noisey, jerky, fuel efficient new wreck.






Only joking - no ones getting their mits on my lovely Clementine.

Detroit quality  At work
At home

"I can't always believe facts I read on the web" - Charles Dickens

winner by default of the tractor vs caravan race

chicken george wrote:

Detroit quality

That is laughable and I actaully laughed to myself as I typed it...but compared to TATA?

Interesting little experiment for you. Close the door on a Range Rover, and then close a D3/4/RRS door. The Discovery/RRS is a much better quality. Ford came up with the D3/RRS, BMW the Range Rover. The TDV6 (Ford) was, miles better than the TD6 BMW lump in the RR, TD4 in the FL2 (Ford) better than the TD4 in the FL1 (BMW).

We owned all these through work (plant hire) and the D3/FL2 (pre facelift) are our firm favourites  Mine: 2012 Golf GTI Edition 35
Family's: 2009 Freelander 2 HSE TD4 Auto, Stornoway

Yorkshire - God's County

You want rattles!!... come for a ride in my MG TF..its like a skeletal sex party!

Just got mine back from being in for the flatspot and noise from the dash. They updated the gearbox software and it seems to have cured the flatspot, couldn't find any noise from the dash so I went out with the technician and I couldn't replicate the noise so I cannot criticize them for not finding it, a couple of days later on the motorway I hit a sharp bump and there it was again a loud crack from the nearside dashboard. I have decided that after 5 attempts of finding it I will have to learn to live with it, I'll have to think of it as a feature rather than a fault.

[quote="1STFREELANDER"I couldn't replicate the noise so I cannot criticize them for not finding it, a couple of days later on the motorway I hit a sharp bump and there it was again a loud crack from the nearside dashboard. I have decided that after 5 attempts of finding it I will have to learn to live with it, I'll have to think of it as a feature rather than a fault.[/quote]

At least you can honestly say "Ive got a cracking Land Rover there".