Some of you may have seen my post on here about looking for a Freelander. After a few months of looking a couple I missed out on I’ve found one and picked it up. Yesterday. I wanted one as late as possible with decent history and to a budget. Ended up finding this 2015 SE Tech for sale privately and bought it. History Is good, Full LR until 2018 then Rockingham Land Rover for the last 2 years. Given it a thorough clean today. The crap that came out of the seals and the roof bar tracks leads me to think it’s never seen a jet wash before. It’s come up well though I think. Found a couple off issues (well it is a landrover!) brake light leaks so new seal ordered and one of the wing mirror caps came off while I cleaned it! I think it’s back on secure! The mirrors aren’t quite folding in and out correctly either so will lube them and reset next weekend! Other than that seems to drive nice. It’s got budget ‘Azura’ tyres On it at the moment. Plenty of tread on them but tempted to swap them fairly quickly. Also planning on getting the diff oils changed and the Haldex serviced in the not to distant future. 2015 ones are pretty rare and I’ve found that 4 TD4 SE Techs were registered in 2015! Anyway here’s a post cleaning pic...




It’s not my first Freelander (my 4th!) and keep getting drawn back to them! Not going to be an everyday car so hopefully should last a long time! Fully expecting to find more issues but fingers crossed there aren’t too many with one of this age!

You didn't post the mileage but, depending on what it is, you can also change the manual gearbox fluids.......very nice!!!! The White is stunning!

Sorry mileage is 69000 so not too high. I’ll investigate the gearbox fluid too. Thank you!

Brilliant colour! Procrastination, mankind's greatest labour saving device!

Acoustic insulation ARB TPMS 3xARB air compressors After cooler Air tank On-board OCD pressure air/water cleaning Additional 50L fuel Carpet in doors ABE 2x1kg Waeco 28L modified fridge Battery 4x26ah Solar 120w Victron MPPT 100/20 DC-DC 18amps 175amp jumper plug Awning 6x255/60R18

That looks very nice, I bet it has caused a bit of curtain twitching among your neighbours

Did you manage to stick to your budget?

Thanks Gundog! Yes a few asked yesterday if I'd got another one when I was cleaning it! Well within the budget thankfully. Paid just over £11k for it so pretty happy with that. There are a few things I'll need to spend money on on it over the next few months to get it fully sorted but I think that would have been the same from a dealer or private!

I'm not expert but that seems a good price to me, Enjoy

Sounds good WBAC still offering me £11k for a 14 reg XS SD4 with 56k miles 3 x FL1 2 manual + 1 auto
5 x FL2 4 manual + 1 auto
Now Discovery Sport P250 MHEV SE

Very nice looking FL2 there  Regards

David

Lovely i6 has now gone, but not me......

Please let me know if anything in my post offends you, as I may wish to offend you again......

I do like the 'blacked out' portion of the headlamps.





I want to do that with mine, but you have to disassemble the whole headlamp !!

Could do the Blue Peter, sticky back plastic on the outside, although at certain angles, you can still see the white reflector behind.

Land Rover also did an amber variant for NAS model.

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Thanks boxbrownie and 3lander 2. It looks better from a good clean! Still a few bits I want to do, deep clean of the interior and windows next weekend.

Loving the blue Peter idea for the headlights! I’m yet to see how poor the halogens are. Last FL2 was a HSE lux so had the awesome lights.

3landertwo wrote:

I do like the 'blacked out' portion of the headlamps.





I want to do that with mine, but you have to disassemble the whole headlamp !!

Could do the Blue Peter, sticky back plastic on the outside, although at certain angles, you can still see the white reflector behind.

Land Rover also did an amber variant for NAS model.

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The amber filter is not for indicators, but 'side marker' lamps. (amber at front and red at the rear) I already have the red rear markers.



PS .... Good looking vehicle

MY12-MY14 UK cars were a clear white reflector
MY15 UK cars were a black reflector

I upgraded my car which I purchased new from MY14 - MY15 lights and done the xenon upgrade also never looked back  MY14 Kahn Converted Dynamic - Fuji White Ebony/Pimento Interior
MY15 Xenon Headlight Conversion

MY17 RRS SVR - Estoril Blue Cirrus/Ebony 🪣💺’s

Boxbrownie wrote:

So what’s on the U.K. version? Is it not just as shown in the first post or has it been modified?

This is the common lamp. It has a transparent cover with a white reflector.

The OP's is not modified, there were several variants.

It looks like it maybe partly reflective on my car. My guess to make the corner of the car a bit more visible if parked on the street at night. Will have to have a look at some time. Procrastination, mankind's greatest labour saving device!

Acoustic insulation ARB TPMS 3xARB air compressors After cooler Air tank On-board OCD pressure air/water cleaning Additional 50L fuel Carpet in doors ABE 2x1kg Waeco 28L modified fridge Battery 4x26ah Solar 120w Victron MPPT 100/20 DC-DC 18amps 175amp jumper plug Awning 6x255/60R18