Just wondering what the consensus is for the best initial mods to get an FL2 off road ready (other than tyres)?
Thanks.

The fuel tank is the lowest point of the car and can drag on the ground. I fitted a Mantec tank guard as well as their sump guard extension but they are hard to come by now. When you get an FL2 check that the air cleaner box drain valve is in place. If you take the car into water if this isn’t there you can suck water into the air intake - hydrolock!!

Thanks. That’s really useful.

Coming off the back of BossBob's reply, an old video that we did regarding the air box one way valve:



MuddyMods sell an improved one way valve for the airbox which should be better than what we used as we still get water/mud into our airbox.

https://www.muddymods.com/collections/free...-way-valve

A tank guard is a must if you want to do anything more than the odd bit of green laining:

https://www.muddymods.com/collections/free...tank-guard

A bit of added ground clearance never goes a miss with the Freelander 2:

https://www.muddymods.com/collections/free...kit-bundle

A decent set of all terrain tyres as you've said is a very good starting point. Something that is overlooked is just having a well maintained Freelander 2 in the first place. A modified Freelander 2 isn't much use if it breaks down in the middle of a green lane due to a lack of maintenance .



If you want to see what Alana and I get up to with our Freelander 2, a link to our channel is in my signature below . https://www.youtube.com/@scottandalana4x4

Thanks very much, that’s really helpful.

How often do the tank guards come up secondhand?

Don't know about the best but the tubular rock sliders saved my sill.
My front right tyre went off the side of a boulder as the boulder rolled.
Car went down so quickly it pinched the tyre between a rock and the rim, putting a hole in the sidewall of the tyre I could get my thumb through!
When I checked there was also a big dent in the bottom of the slider.

Asthecroweflies wrote:

How often do the tank guards come up secondhand?

They come up 2nd hand on the groups every now and then. To the most part people fit and forget about them so sometimes they don't realise the guard is still on when they sell their car . Although if someone is leaving the off-roading scene they will often "revert" their car back to standard and sell off all the other bits. Although sometimes there isn't much of a saving to be had between used and new seeing as there isn't much pre-owned stuff floating around to lower the costs . https://www.youtube.com/@scottandalana4x4