Hello everyone, I am new to this site and was told that I could get so much information and knowledge from a freelander forum so I thought I would try. I have very recently purchase my 1st freelander 2 and am very impressed. I have however develoled a fault. It is using about 500ml of water every 50 miles or so but have no visible white smoke. It has now started to fire up on 3 cylinders and then fire on all 4 about 10 seconds after. I have had 2 block tests done and have confirmed the headgaskit has gone as it changed the chemical test colour and detected exhaust gases in the coolant, I went to a landrover specialist to get a quote and they did a block test and said the head gaskit has not gone. Has anyone experienced anything like this or have and ideas what it could be. The specialist said it is possibly a gllwplug/injector fault. They did a peassure test and it held the pressure for nearly 3 hours. I know the incector will have nothing to do with loss of water. That was the 4th garage that has looked at the car. Sorry about the long post
Thank you in advance

You have three more things to check: EGR cooler, engine oil cooler or autobox oil cooler. All of them are water heat exchangers.
Start with the EGR cooler, as it's the most susceptible to be the culprit, as the water could slowly leak into the hot exhaust and vaporize quite quickly.
Also the presence of water vapor into intake manifold, in large quantities, could lead to that misfire behavior...

As Alex, pound to a penny it's the EGR Cooler Gasket.

Now the bad news......the part (which is in two pieces) is less than £15.

It is, however, 2.6 hrs labour to fit, as it's a bit of a ball-ache to get to.

Good luck!

Thank you Alex and sperly, I was hoping it was the head gaskit because its covered under the warranty I got with the car but I heave read the gaskit on these are pritty much bullet proof. I have had blue smoke a few times for the first 30 seconds or so, does that sound like the engine oil cooler or the egr cooler. Would any of those cause the chemical test to change and/or a miss fire. In Your opinion, would you go for the head gaskit replacement first as it would be free or is it going to more likley be one of the others
Thank you

Sorry alex, I saw you said that the egr cooler gaskit could cause the vapour to leak into the inlet and cause a miss fire, do you know if this would be the correct gaskit for a egr cooler or is that a gaskit for the egr valve.
Many thanks

The EGR cooler, if it fails, it must be changed as a whole. There is no gasket there that can leak water.
On cold, because the metal is contracted, can show no leak, as they observed.
But on engine running, the hot gases there could make the cooler dilate a little and the leak appears.
Hence the exhaust gases into the water and water into the intake/exhaust, as the EGR is connecting exhaust with intake.