Congrats to whoever at Land Rover designed the Freelander 2 screenwash bottle lid. Opened it tonight to fill up washbottle, as bucketing rain promised tomorrow and dash showing liquid low, only to have it detach with a gust of wind and fall out of reach somewhere in the drivers side wing. One removed headlight later the cap was retrieved, turning a 2 min job into a 40 min one. I think Grrr just about sums it up...

Bad times!! Just be grateful you've got a low liquid sensor.......I'm not that lucky!! Even though it's an MY13  2013 FL2 - Black Edition Auto
2013 FL2 - Black Edition Manual GONE!
Founder of the 'Microscopic LR Spoiler Badge Club'
Destroyer of chrome rears.....

Are u sure !.......even had that on my first fl2 back in 2008 ,08 reg ,"s" Current: Freelander 2 GS, Orkney Grey, Factory fit privacy glass, design pack and Clearview pack. Almond Leather ,rear spoiler,rear mudflaps.my13.

Gone:Freelander 2, GS, "61"

Gone: Freelander 2, GS.e, "59"

Gone: Freelander 2, S, "08"

aeverard wrote:

Congrats to whoever at Land Rover designed the Freelander 2 screenwash bottle lid. Opened it tonight to fill up washbottle, as bucketing rain promised tomorrow and dash showing liquid low, only to have it detach with a gust of wind and fall out of reach somewhere in the drivers side wing. One removed headlight later the cap was retrieved, turning a 2 min job into a 40 min one. I think Grrr just about sums it up...

...been there done that,,,.... left it there and bought a new cap £.1.59 from lr Current: Freelander 2 GS, Orkney Grey, Factory fit privacy glass, design pack and Clearview pack. Almond Leather ,rear spoiler,rear mudflaps.my13.

Gone:Freelander 2, GS, "61"

Gone: Freelander 2, GS.e, "59"

Gone: Freelander 2, S, "08"

Jimski wrote:

Just be grateful you've got a low liquid sensor.......I'm not that lucky!! Even though it's an MY13

Have they removed that too?!

Yep, ran out a couple of times now and no indication at all......!! 2013 FL2 - Black Edition Auto
2013 FL2 - Black Edition Manual GONE!
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Destroyer of chrome rears.....

Blimey. You've got to watch out for those accountants at JLR!

My 2013 model has a low level warning (as I found out the other day). It also gets through screen wash a lot faster than my 07 SE! The pump seems to be on a timed burst when you operate the switch rather than only while the switch is operated so you can't just give it a quick 'blip'. In the current weather, the headlamp washer is probably using most of the fluid. The other thing that was a pain at first was to wash the rear screen on the 07 model, you pulled back the stalk and pressed the end for the front screen. Now it's the other way round! Or was my 07 wired incorrectly? 2007 SE Manual : Gone and missed but 2013 HSE Lux is better!
Series IIa : Gone but hopefully still alive.

This is a well documented occurrence on FreelL2.
Simple to cure.
Use a ZipTie around the filler neck and cap.
Job done.
Never had the cap fly off since adopting that FreeL2 member tip from day one back in October'09

They must only put the sensor on the higher spec freelancers then!! Deary me......!! 2013 FL2 - Black Edition Auto
2013 FL2 - Black Edition Manual GONE!
Founder of the 'Microscopic LR Spoiler Badge Club'
Destroyer of chrome rears.....

On the older ones the lid is attached to the neck so can't fall off!

Mine is attached to the neck too!! Haha seems you can have one or the other!! 2013 FL2 - Black Edition Auto
2013 FL2 - Black Edition Manual GONE!
Founder of the 'Microscopic LR Spoiler Badge Club'
Destroyer of chrome rears.....

they are all attached its just that some people have huge sausages instead of fingers At work
At home

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I have one of the posh FL2's with the low washer sensor

I just wish they could have changed the beep noise to something different, keep thinking something else is going wrong with my FL2 when the bottle went low!!  Now - 2017 BMW X3 M Sport Carbon Black
Gone - 2014 BMW X3 M Sport Space Grey, faultless!
Gone - 2011 Freelander 2 SD4 HSE Bali Blue with xenons
Gone - 2008 Freelander 2 TD4 HSE Rimini Red with bodykit