Bobupndown wrote:

I took the broken glove box damper out and threw it away, don't recall ever opening any other gloveboxes and thinking "I wish this opened slowly with a damped motion"!

The mistake people make is throw in the towel once they experience big repair bills!
Cars (all cars) will eventually need components replacing and typically it always seems the most expensive ones
However, once done with 2 year parts warranty (if using genuine parts) it should give piece of mind.
Imagine how much more you will spend to buy another car/vehicle and maybe that vehicle may also need bits doing.
Maybe its a case of better the devil you know!
My personal thing is to keep vehicles for at least 5 years (sometimes more).

Ours is almost seven years old and not so much as a bulb yet, problem is it’s not a Land Rover  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......

AT1963 wrote:

The mistake people make is throw in the towel once they experience big repair bills!
Cars (all cars) will eventually need components replacing and typically it always seems the most expensive ones
However, once done with 2 year parts warranty (if using genuine parts) it should give piece of mind.
Imagine how much more you will spend to buy another car/vehicle and maybe that vehicle may also need bits doing.
Maybe its a case of better the devil you know!
My personal thing is to keep vehicles for at least 5 years (sometimes more).

About £12k depreciation for my 2014 FL2 over 7 years - pretty good considering my 2009 BMW had lost £14K in its first year by the time I bought it. Jules

Depreciation is a !
However, it seems the main depreciation occurs in the first 3 yrs (ish).
So either buy a car older than 3 years or accept your lot.
The only vehicle that made money was my defender td5. Brought it in 2013 for £12500 and sold it in 2021 for £16500 having put over 80k on it during that time

My previous car, which was bought new, although I didn't pay list, lost roughly £37k in 2 years and months.

Yes it had a lot more tech and was considerably quicker. But I don't worry about the landy anywhere and has so far cost me a service (£220) and a set of new tyres (at 1/3 of the price of the old cars tyres for a set).

Depreciation is horrible and I'm honestly glad to not be dealing with it at the moment. Albeit, until the next car.

I had a 2008 HSE ON 150K that needed very little in my ownership as prev owner jad done the majority of work (it had 15k of receipts with it)

So, in January i upgraded to a much newer 2014 FL2 XS and in these two months, its needed:

Clutch, DMF and Slave £1k all in parts and labour inc IRD oil change
Bootlid handle £15
Rear wiper motor £70
Back brakes;discs, pads, sliders, caliper carrier £150
Front brake caliper sliders £20
Wiper linkage repairs (nylon bush failures) £30
Clutch pedal assembly: £50
Clutch master cyl: £120
Door actuator £25
Paint for grills :£50
I have also been derusting the car, painted front subframe and will shortly do the rear to preserve it.

I would say much of these has been down to prev owner only doing basic servicing and reactive repairs, so im hoping my investment staves off any further horrors.

Up next will be a haldex and diff service as the prev owner didnt know when it was last done. Timing belt thankfully is already done though! 2014 Metropolis in Loire Blue

2014 TD4 XS in Loire Blue (Sold)

2007 HSE in Black (Now gone!)

Been down that whole clutch road myself. All bits replaced a few years ago

Dean1234 wrote:

Just a bit of light humour for a Monday. I guess you could say I've learnt just how expensive FL2's can be. Here is my FL2.



First on the list of things to go wrong was the Gen 4 Haldex with worn out plates which was £1,200 to replace.

While that was done, the lovely people at FreelanderSpecalist.com happened to notice the left and right hand track rod ends boots were cracked, the hand brake cables outer casing was cracked exposing the cables, the front and rear crankcase seals were leaking and required replacing and the PCV valve was leaking. If that wasn't bad enough, we had noticed the clutch was starting to slip. So, you know, while you're in there, why not replace the clutch, dual mass flywheel and the slave cylinder. Oh and the timing belt was overdue needing to be replaced just to top it off.

The Haldex was somewhere in the region of £600 to £650. The £1200 was including removal of the old one and installing of the new one including sundries. Other than Bell and FreelanderSpecialist.com, I was getting quotes for £2500 for a haldex replacement!

FreelanderSpecialist.com are by no means cheap. When it comes to jobs that you don't trust your average garage with, I'd prefer to pay that little extra and have it done right the first time. Plus Bell have a 6 year waiting list to have work done and we needed it fixed before then.