kiddo I'm 75 come may,  DAVE.

I'm only a youngster then at 47! Landrover - turning owners into mechanics since 1948

2014 Orkney grey Freelander SD4 GS.
2004 Zambezi silver Discovery 2 Td5 (Gone)
1963 Surf blue Morris Mini Minor Super de Luxe (my little toy)

^^^^ Is that until you try running up the stairs, Bob.  DAVE.

Built a bungalow to avoid such shenanigans 👍 Landrover - turning owners into mechanics since 1948

2014 Orkney grey Freelander SD4 GS.
2004 Zambezi silver Discovery 2 Td5 (Gone)
1963 Surf blue Morris Mini Minor Super de Luxe (my little toy)

I’ve just sold my Discovery 3 an 05, just had to get a little hole in back of of chassis as it slipped off a Jack onto axle stand and put a 2” rip into box section
Ended up cutting about 12” out as chassis was just falling apart inside ,looked great from outside but rotting from the inside out
Sold car to guy that’s going to use it on a camping site on the NC500

Alex, I've always fancied one of the D3/4's
but having research on line, I'm amazed how many
have rotten sills under that nice shiny plastic cover  DAVE.

Jack frost wrote:

Had my car in for a service @ my local specialist & he advised me to treat the rust soon as it’s not looking good with rust especially if I intended keeping the car, he did comment that he is seeing many many younger Land Rovers now with rust problems. Therefore it’s expensive treatment time in the spring 😩😩😩

Hi Jack Frost, appreciate its been a couple months but couldn't resist the urge to reply as recently my FL2 2010 had a comment from the garage on its last MOT that there was rear subframe rust. Living so close to the sea in Cornwall its almost normal for car's to suffer to a degree here!

Here are some pictures of my attempt to grind/wire brush and treat the corrosion on both the rear and front subframe.

Rear subframe before treatment

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bilt hamber hydrate 80 treatment after appling

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After its first coat of converting the rust, use two coats!

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Then applied waxoyl

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I did not get as many pictures of the front frame but was pretty similar to the rear



Not pictured but I also used bilt hamber dynax s50 to get into all the nooks where I could stuff the Lance into

Most of the time was spent prepping and grinding back as much rust as possible then using the bilt hamber hydrate 80 to convert the rust. I plan to waxoyl every other year as a preventative measure

Not too expensive of a job if you have the time and space? pair of wheel ramps £25 waxoyl £15 rust treatment £30. Wire brushes etc £5 and a load of elbow grease free! Although a good cordless drill and an angle grinder makes the job much easier.

when can you do mine ???

Only joking, had the MOT this morning, PASS, but was advised to give it a good wash underneath. Problems of living on a farm, you carry the muck everywhere.

I did ask the inspector to check the rear subframe, his reply was that it was "all good".

I must admit, i spent a lot of time on my old 2008 HSE rustprrofing it, and am now doing the same on my 2014.

I recently did the front wheelarches and front subframe (car was stripped for clutch replacement) and will shortly be doing the back arches, sills, subframe etc. Prevention is better than cure

I really like my freel, and despite have 164,000 miles on the clock, id like to see how many miles it reliably goes on for











 2014 Metropolis in Loire Blue

2014 TD4 XS in Loire Blue (Sold)

2007 HSE in Black (Now gone!)