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pab Member Since: 28 Aug 2012 Location: Now in Mid-Wales Posts: 2006 |
Four years with mine, and the worst I've had is a failed tailgate latch and a back door which doesn't always lock/unlock. It's always started first time, even when it's been standing for a couple of weeks in freezing temperatures, and done everything I've ever asked of it. Off-road and in the snow it's superb. Yes, I have complete confidence in its ability to get me there! |
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22nd Feb 2016 1:14 pm |
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tornado34 Member Since: 22 Oct 2010 Location: Sweden Posts: 67 |
My list of actual wobbles;
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22nd Feb 2016 1:40 pm |
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dorsetfreelander Member Since: 20 Jul 2013 Location: Dorset Posts: 4353 |
Don't get me started, just about to buy another extended warranty so that I can sleep at night. 3 x FL1 2 manual + 1 auto
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22nd Feb 2016 2:19 pm |
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tornado34 Member Since: 22 Oct 2010 Location: Sweden Posts: 67 |
Look at your past list and problems - are you crazy to still own one?!?!?!?
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22nd Feb 2016 2:42 pm |
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SaabDriver Member Since: 08 Jun 2015 Location: Yorkshire Posts: 88 |
Both our cars have over 100,000 miles on them and I wouldn't think twice about taking either of them on a 2,000 mile trip. Mine, Saab convertible
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22nd Feb 2016 4:35 pm |
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Tradewind 35 Member Since: 04 Dec 2012 Location: Cornwall Posts: 441 |
100% confident vote here but I would just add that I can't actually think of a better car to do the 2000 mile journey in if it was a mix of floods/torrential rain/ice/snow/rough potholes/muddy tracks/mud covered B roads etc. The Freely2 has got to be one of the most roadworthy cars for adverse road conditions - a D4 would be better in extremis but too big and heavy, and too heavy on the wallet! |
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22nd Feb 2016 7:15 pm |
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Harrim51 Member Since: 26 Aug 2013 Location: Gloucestershire Posts: 101 |
Just done 1500 miles round trip to the alps, apart from 32 mpg everything fab. |
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22nd Feb 2016 9:09 pm |
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geoffk Member Since: 11 Jan 2008 Location: chester Posts: 164 |
Over 8 years now..And still not had a problem apart from boot lock...Long may it continue.. |
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22nd Feb 2016 9:15 pm |
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Landiroamer Member Since: 30 Apr 2015 Location: Devon Posts: 1185 |
Not had anything go wrong with mine as yet, not this one anyway, but its only done a couple of thousand miles.
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22nd Feb 2016 9:30 pm |
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rjc1944 Member Since: 18 Dec 2011 Location: Perranporth, Cornwall Posts: 783 |
Four years and over 30,000 miles done and up until May last year I'd have ticked the "100%" box. Then the turbo went duff and cost us over £1,600. Shook the confidence somewhat.
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22nd Feb 2016 10:47 pm |
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EYorkshire Member Since: 18 Nov 2010 Location: (!) Posts: 4392 |
Three new Freelanders since 2009 and apart from niggles nothing has gone wrong, 2014 towing my caravan around France at 2000 miles home to home. 2015 towing caravan through Austria to Slovenia, over 2000 miles and this year to Italy and on to Slovenia, again hoping for a trouble free holiday. Only had a temperature related sort of misfire with this one that was cured by a software update and re-calibration of some hardware, so at the moment I have complete faith in our towcar for the upcoming holiday. |
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22nd Feb 2016 11:37 pm |
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Lightwater Member Since: 21 Aug 2014 Location: Sydney Northern Beaches Posts: 4905 |
This is my third car. Had the previous cars for 19 years each. They each went through a phase of needing more maintenance, clutch (slave cylinder on Peugeot every few years), head gasket, radiator (Peugeot), water pump, fuel pump, ignition leads etc, CV joints, shocks, thermostat (a few times on each), but then they became more reliable. I don't expect anything different from this one.
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23rd Feb 2016 12:55 am |
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tornado34 Member Since: 22 Oct 2010 Location: Sweden Posts: 67 |
Great comments and experiences guys, keep them coming.
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23rd Feb 2016 9:05 am |
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dorsetfreelander Member Since: 20 Jul 2013 Location: Dorset Posts: 4353 |
If anyone is interested my geologist son is now working in Chilean Andes up in the Atacama desert. He says that the only vehicles he has seen so far have been Japanese like Toyota and Mitsubishi. He hasn't seen any sign of LandRovers in his travels. He is working at over 4,000 metres and the air is so thin that unless the land is very flat (there are few roads) you have to drive around in low range all the time or the engine cuts out. 3 x FL1 2 manual + 1 auto
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23rd Feb 2016 10:32 am |
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