Just a quick note to say on my 2010 GS diesel manual I am getting 33.5 MPG around the houses if thats any help with 13,000 miles on the clock

Realspeed Ex 2010 Freelander2 GS-e Diesel manual Silver owner

... and my i6 (petrol) using BP Ultimate or Shell VPower 98 - 12.7 L/100kms.
I seem to remember that's ~23MPG.

That's around the houses too.

I get about 8.2 l/100 km around the houses. The cost of premium and diesel are around the same. Service intervals are the same I think. I haven't noticed anything special about the diesel services price wise, my local mechanic does mine. You will pay around $7 more per 100 km on petrol at $1.50 a litre, so $6000-$7000 more over 100,000 kms. I've already done 130,000 kms so about $10,000 in front? Not only that I love the motor especially off road. No matter, each to their own

one major difference in diesel vs petrol servicing is that the diesel requires a cam belt change, and the petrol doesn't (it runs a timing chain). But the diesel cam belt has a barely believeable 240,000km service interval!

This seems to be the cheapest MY11 available, and it's pretty well priced!
http://www.carsales.com.au/private/details...=bluetooth|CarAll

Gotta wonder if there's something wrong with it at that price, or whether it's just that it's waaaaay down in Tasmania...

This car looks good (apart from the shiny black surrounding the sat nav!) but I'm not sure what features you miss compared to an HSE for example.

To clear any doubts, ask the owner if they'll mind if you get a company to check it out thoroughly on your behalf - if it's genuine, then they shouldn't have a problem.
You would also have a years LR warranty left which is good. For piece of mind, you may wish to extend this.

I don't think the price is too low either. I bought my 2yr old HSE for the same price from a dealer, but I did knock them down a bit and it was the end of the month so they wanted the sale. I'd even say that there should even be movement in this price. If you do go with it, I'd ask for 38k and see what they say

orbitor wrote:

This seems to be the cheapest MY11 available, and it's pretty well priced!
http://www.carsales.com.au/private/details...=bluetooth|CarAll

Gotta wonder if there's something wrong with it at that price, or whether it's just that it's waaaaay down in Tasmania...

I can't understand why LR didn't match the surround to the rest of the dash

I dont know if you realize that Land Rover Australia has a mid year sale on at the moment.
http://www.landrover.com/au/en/lr/offers-a...ain-event/
You might be able to pick up a new one or a ex demo at a good price, it ends June 30.

Well it looks like that one in Tassie was sold. But it's good to know what sort of price I should be looking at. Thanks for the heads up on the current sale - I'm going to go visit the local dealer and see what they're willing to do. But I would take some serious convincing (ie. a can't say no price) to buy brand new.

also, I haven't been looking at the manuals because I think the automatic would be better offroad, given that the FL2 doesn't have low range. Would you guys agree?

orbitor wrote:

also, I haven't been looking at the manuals because I think the automatic would be better offroad, given that the FL2 doesn't have low range. Would you guys agree?

I bought an Auto under protest because I really wanted the SD4 with the extra kilowasps. Having now taken it to many extreme places, I'd be reluctant to go back to a manual as there's no way I could drive a 4WD that effectively. ie: changing gears at the right time, being able to stop anytime, being able to ride the clutch on downhill slopes etc. The technology is quite incredible and I'm definitely converted.

can anyone tell me which models come with bluetooth for hands free calls? When I search carsales and include the keyword 'bluetooth' all I get is older HSE models and 2011+ models.

So don't all fl2's come with bluetooth? How hard is it to retrofit it?

Hi Orbitor, My 2009 SE certainly doesn't have Bluetooth, but the retrofit - and now fitted by Land Rover Australia to most models - Garmin 1490t is bluetooth enabled and you can link your phone to that pretty easily.
Cheers, Graham