Hi there everyone... not been on here for a long time.
Still have fond memories of meeting a bunch of you at Chicken George's summer BBQ.
Just had my 2007 FL2 through her MOT and just needed a new front spring with no advisories!

I decided, 2 years ago, to keep the FL2 for longer and had the expensive 10 year / 150,000 mile service done.

I'm still a happy and proud FL2 owner  2002 Honda VFR800
2002 Toyota Celica 140 Silver (mid life crisis - again!)
2007 FL2 GS Manual Army Reconnaissance Green + freel2.com sticker
2004 Toyota Celica 140 Black - Gone
2000 Toyota Celica 140 Silver - Gone
1998 Toyota Celica ST Pearl Green - Gone
1996 Nissan Primera 1.6 - Gone
1994 Rover Montego 1.6 Auto - Gone

Have you owned it for all of those 13 years?!

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simont wrote:

Hi there everyone... not been on here for a long time.
Still have fond memories of meeting a bunch of you at Chicken George's summer BBQ.
Just had my 2007 FL2 through her MOT and just needed a new front spring with no advisories!

I decided, 2 years ago, to keep the FL2 for longer and had the expensive 10 year / 150,000 mile service done.

I'm still a happy and proud FL2 owner

Awesome!!!!!

I've owned mine since the ides of March 2008

Almost 12 years

I'm never selling

Take care

Paul

Threads like these are very encouraging.

Just MOT my 2007 pass no advisories

Richard FL2 07 TD4 GS Auto
Ex 02 TD4 Auto

I'm so happy to see posts like this 😀

.... and so am ! but not at all surprised.....
FL2 is as close to my ideal allrounder as I could find. Great on-road, brilliant off. Quite quick enough for any sane driver, great braking and handling. A joy to drive. Superb, safe, high driving position.... and (despite what you might think if you follow this forum!), super-reliable. Must be the most reliable LR ever made. After nearly 13 years of pretty-well trouble free motoring, with a TD4HSE and now an SD4 Metropolis, I’ll never sell mine - it’ll see me out until I’m forced into some sort of 4 wheeled motorised zimmer frame (I am 74 now...). The compromises... somewhat hard ride on my 19” wheels, high initial cost - mine was just south of £42k when new. A bit like its owner, quite fond of a drink......
Otherwise, nowt.
Keep on trucking’! I've decided to stop being a good example and will now just be a terrible warning.....
2008 TD4HSE - gone but much loved.
2014MY SD4 Metropolis - very much loved.

Oh... and I forgot to mention another great FL2 feature - this excellent Forum. A real bonus and blessing! I've decided to stop being a good example and will now just be a terrible warning.....
2008 TD4HSE - gone but much loved.
2014MY SD4 Metropolis - very much loved.

theglassman wrote:

.... and so am ! but not at all surprised.....
FL2 is as close to my ideal allrounder as I could find. Great on-road, brilliant off. Quite quick enough for any sane driver, great braking and handling. A joy to drive. Superb, safe, high driving position.... and (despite what you might think if you follow this forum!), super-reliable. Must be the most reliable LR ever made. After nearly 13 years of pretty-well trouble free motoring, with a TD4HSE and now an SD4 Metropolis, I’ll never sell mine - it’ll see me out until I’m forced into some sort of 4 wheeled motorised zimmer frame (I am 74 now...). The compromises... somewhat hard ride on my 19” wheels, high initial cost - mine was just south of £42k when new. A bit like its owner, quite fond of a drink......
Otherwise, nowt.
Keep on trucking’!

 2013 SD4 SE (hers)
2013 SD4 HSE (mine)
Ex: 2008 D3 V8 HSE
EX: 2000 D2 TD5

theglassman wrote:

.... and so am ! but not at all surprised.....
FL2 is as close to my ideal allrounder as I could find. Great on-road, brilliant off. Quite quick enough for any sane driver, great braking and handling. A joy to drive. Superb, safe, high driving position.... and (despite what you might think if you follow this forum!), super-reliable. Must be the most reliable LR ever made. After nearly 13 years of pretty-well trouble free motoring, with a TD4HSE and now an SD4 Metropolis, I’ll never sell mine - it’ll see me out until I’m forced into some sort of 4 wheeled motorised zimmer frame (I am 74 now...). The compromises... somewhat hard ride on my 19” wheels, high initial cost - mine was just south of £42k when new. A bit like its owner, quite fond of a drink......
Otherwise, nowt.
Keep on trucking’!

Will you so and so's stop rubbing it in

There's not a week goes by without me wishing I hadn't got rid of ours.

The DS is nice to drive, and more frugal than the FL2 but ............ it's never going to last the 10 years I was hoping for Tangiers Orange - gone, missing her
Replaced by Ewok what a mistake - now a happy Disco Sport owner

Tigger wrote:

Have you owned it for all of those 13 years?!

Just the last 10  2002 Honda VFR800
2002 Toyota Celica 140 Silver (mid life crisis - again!)
2007 FL2 GS Manual Army Reconnaissance Green + freel2.com sticker
2004 Toyota Celica 140 Black - Gone
2000 Toyota Celica 140 Silver - Gone
1998 Toyota Celica ST Pearl Green - Gone
1996 Nissan Primera 1.6 - Gone
1994 Rover Montego 1.6 Auto - Gone

Andy131 wrote:

Will you so and so's stop rubbing it in

There's not a week goes by without me wishing I hadn't got rid of ours.

The DS is nice to drive, and more frugal than the FL2 but ............ it's never going to last the 10 years I was hoping for

Gone and definurely not forgotten!  2002 Honda VFR800
2002 Toyota Celica 140 Silver (mid life crisis - again!)
2007 FL2 GS Manual Army Reconnaissance Green + freel2.com sticker
2004 Toyota Celica 140 Black - Gone
2000 Toyota Celica 140 Silver - Gone
1998 Toyota Celica ST Pearl Green - Gone
1996 Nissan Primera 1.6 - Gone
1994 Rover Montego 1.6 Auto - Gone

What is the fuel economy of a DS like compared to the FL2? Is the mpg significantly better?

My cousin has a 2015 DS with the 2.0 Ingenium engine - admittedly an auto - and is quite jealous of the figures I get on my 2013 FL2 SD4. He's younger than me and not a very good driver (can say that here since he's not on the forum!), and tends to rag it on the motorway (even on a trip to Scotland we did with two 16ft canoes on top of the DS 🙄), but he gets mid to high 30s mpg, whereas on long runs I can easily get 42 in the FL2, and the dash has recorded as high as 45mpg on a memorable run from Bristol to London...