Land Rover marketing dept have seen fit to send us another invitation to a free half-day offroad experience. Quite fancy going, as we very much enjoyed the one they gave us last year The website link asks loads of questions about current car/next car etc. If I answer truthfully - i.e. Freelander 2, 12 months old, keep for 2 more years at least - do you think they'll still let us go ?

Last time was at Peckforton Castle in Cheshire, but the guys there highly recommended Bala if going again...

Gareth

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Ring them and upgrade to a full day,learn lots more about offroad in landys.
Ive just got home from an range rover weekend course at gaydon proving ground,(was not alowed to take any pics of test astons) and the gaydon boys get lr2s through the same course as the tdv8 range rover,and the sport,we also got to test the competors around gaydon village but they would not let us drive them offroad,

anyway book your course and have fun!

all the best Tony

Just booked in our freebie half day for end of May

So long as they've already sent you an invitation, with a reference number on it, then you can put what you want in your profile. "CY from DISCO3"

Discovery 3 TDV6 SE

garethh wrote:

Land Rover marketing dept have seen fit to send us another invitation to a free half-day offroad experience. Quite fancy going, as we very much enjoyed the one they gave us last year The website link asks loads of questions about current car/next car etc. If I answer truthfully - i.e. Freelander 2, 12 months old, keep for 2 more years at least - do you think they'll still let us go ?

Last time was at Chelforton (?) Castle in Cheshire, but the guys there highly recommended Bala if going again...

Gareth

Made some calls this morning. Seems that if I just book the regular FL2 halfday through LR admin, I can then contact LRE direct and they will upgrade me to a full day, in my choice of vehicle, for approx £100-150. Seems ok to me, so going to go for a full day "level 1" in a Defender.

Only pity is that LR won't book events at Bala any more for some reason, so will have to go back to Peckforton again

I had my freebie 1/2 day LRE at the Chilterns location just this morning (my wife already paid for me to have the full day on March 31st at Rockingham Castle - which was great!)

Today, they put me in the FL2. Our cars can go just about anywhere - believe me. You just turn the centre control and just use the accelerator/brake (if in an Auto). Thats it. The Disco I used at Rockingham was manual and needed much more thought.

Bearing in mind it was peeing with rain all night and all morning - so the course was a little waterlogged - the FL2 just kep on going up/down/angled/water dips etc etc. HDC is VERY impressive - especialy backwards down a hill.

The off-road capabilities of the FL2 is simply amazing.

Great fun!

(I pestered my dealer for the free LRE Voucher) Chris

my experience is that the LRE centre are open to negotiation but LR central are nothing to do with the upgrade, so don't involve them in it at all (obviously apart from booking the 1/2 day as you have done)

Enjoy - we had a brill time & my brother was converted from the "why do you need one of these" to "wow this is awesome I want one too!

Quick update - as my original question was, will they give me a second free half-day, the answer is yes. Booked up for June and no problem opting for a Defender instead of a Freelander. Just need to get back onto LRE now to upgrade it to a full-day and ideally at Bala...

G

Spent a great half day in a TD4 HSE Auto at Skipton LRE on Saturday. Had previously done a half day at Bala in a FL1 but paid for an upgrade to the LR free invite to a half day of tuition and was worth it. Also allowed me to take 5 year old daughter (which Bala would not) and 14 year old nephew too - they thought driving through water and testing out the various settings on a slippy, sloping hillside was great fun - and so did I!

Was impressed with some of the additional technicalities of the FL2 over the FL1 - quite amazing what DSC does in different conditions and on different settings - Gradient release is clever too. Continue to be amazed by Freelander capabilities.

DT

see you at the next "Tong" day  Former Mod/Member, with the most post & Chicken George Arch nemesis

How are you folks getting these free LRE days. I asked my dealer when I bought the car and he said they don't get the vouchers any more.

dealer don't do the vouchers anymore they come directly from LR themselves

Try logging into there website and registering, don't tell them you have FL2, just that your looking to change in the very near future to a disco3 or something. (make them feel like your going to spend a little money, and swap to a 4x4)

You might get contact from your dealer asking if your looking at changing, but you might also get the letter inviting you Former Mod/Member, with the most post & Chicken George Arch nemesis