Freelander 2 - How bad can it be?

wimmelman said:
I am looking at a 2010 with 180000km, R130 000. Milieage is high but seems to be in a really good condition.
Click to expand...
Isn't that seriously over priced?
I'm not a LR enthusiast but at that age and mileage the modern shape landrovers seem to go for peanuts.
 
Naks said:
just out of interest, how many LRs have you owned?
Click to expand...

I don't buy crap that breaks down if I can avoid it, thanks!
The JD power survey is the biggest and most valued survey in the motor industry to gauge reliability. As wooden spooners, you should know what you get with a Land Rover.

No wonder you owned so many. You have to constantly replace the ones that do not want to drive anymore :D
 
Brenden_E said:
I don't buy crap that breaks down if I can avoid it, thanks! The JD power survey is the biggest and most valued survey in the motor industry to gauge reliability. As wooden spooners, you should know what you get with a Land Rover.
No wonder you owned so many. You have to constantly replace the ones that do not want to drive anymore :D
Click to expand...


funny how it's always the non-LR owners who go on about their 'unreliability' :whistle:
 
FiestaST said:
Kinda like the same people that say "French cars are crap" & have never owned a Frenchie
Click to expand...

We had a French car and it was sheeet - never again.

Naks, I bet you never owned a Toyota 4x4 so your experience is limited to the wooden spooner brand. Those JD Power surveys are of thousands of people who own the vehicles so it's the fairest gauge you'll get. Your sample size of 1 doesn't mean all that much.
 
Wife drives a 2013 FL2 and it is an amazing car. Absolutely love it. Had no troubles.
 
Brenden_E said:
We had a French car and it was sheeet - never again.

Naks, I bet you never owned a Toyota 4x4 so your experience is limited to the wooden spooner brand. Those JD Power surveys are of thousands of people who own the vehicles so it's the fairest gauge you'll get. Your sample size of 1 doesn't mean all that much.
Click to expand...

I personally have never owned a LR... but I know MANY people who do and they've never had massive issues with them...
 
ToxicBunny said:
I personally have never owned a LR... but I know MANY people who do and they've never had massive issues with them...
Click to expand...

I'm in the same boat, many friends with troublesome Land Rovers of all shapes and sizes. It must be said that they're fully enamoured with the brand though, so they forgive the issues (and keep buying Land Rovers).
 
TehStranger said:
I'm in the same boat, many friends with troublesome Land Rovers of all shapes and sizes. It must be said that they're fully enamoured with the brand though, so they forgive the issues (and keep buying Land Rovers).
Click to expand...

The biggest problems I've heard of from my friends is a constant oil leak (which seems to be endemic in the brand) and an issue with the transfer case that just required it to be dropped and stripped.. nothing needed to be replaced.
 
Brenden_E said:
Naks, I bet you never owned a Toyota 4x4 so your experience is limited to the wooden spooner brand. Those JD Power surveys are of thousands of people who own the vehicles so it's the fairest gauge you'll get. Your sample size of 1 doesn't mean all that much.
Click to expand...

I've had a Toyota, although not a 4x4. It was fine, just like any other appliance I've owned, such as kettles, toasters, dishwashers, etc.

So jah, you keep your boring jap crap, obviously you buy your car to match your character :whistle:
 
ToxicBunny said:
The biggest problems I've heard of from my friends is a constant oil leak (which seems to be endemic in the brand) and an issue with the transfer case that just required it to be dropped and stripped.. nothing needed to be replaced.
Click to expand...

This has now been resolved, kind of, you can get different colours of oil, to match your driveway :)
 
GhostSixFour said:
This has now been resolved, kind of, you can get different colours of oil, to match your driveway :)
Click to expand...

Landrovers have a lot of different engines, ie Rover, BMW, Peugeot, Ford, etc, same with gearboxes.

You can lay the blame for oil leaks at all of those :D
 
Naks said:
I've had a Toyota, although not a 4x4. It was fine, just like any other appliance I've owned, such as kettles, toasters, dishwashers, etc.

So jah, you keep your boring jap crap, obviously you buy your car to match your character :whistle:
Click to expand...

Great strength of character you have that siphons so much of it's value from the brand your 4 wheels belong to. What a sucker for marketing XD
 
Still researching the Freelander... After walking up to people in the street (owning a Freelander), I still am at the same conclusion: Everyone who owns Freelanders thinks it is just the best, and everyone who doesn't own one says it is rubbish.

Question for today: Buying a slightly higher mileage car is better, because all the initial problems and faults should have been sorted out by now. So it is just normal maintenance, right?

Love to hear what you guys think.
 
wimmelman said:
Still researching the Freelander... After walking up to people in the street (owning a Freelander), I still am at the same conclusion: Everyone who owns Freelanders thinks it is just the best, and everyone who doesn't own one says it is rubbish.

Question for today: Buying a slightly higher mileage car is better, because all the initial problems and faults should have been sorted out by now. So it is just normal maintenance, right?

Love to hear what you guys think.
Click to expand...
Postman Pot will agree with you. That's all I'm going to say - have to rush off now to buy a 20 year old dishwasher, will be awesome as all its issues will have been sorted ages ago and many years of trouble free service await me.
 
wimmelman said:
Still researching the Freelander... After walking up to people in the street (owning a Freelander), I still am at the same conclusion: Everyone who owns Freelanders thinks it is just the best, and everyone who doesn't own one says it is rubbish.

Question for today: Buying a slightly higher mileage car is better, because all the initial problems and faults should have been sorted out by now. So it is just normal maintenance, right?

Love to hear what you guys think.
Click to expand...

As a car gets older more parts will start to fail, it's just the nature of use. That being said I wouldn't shy away from owning older, high mileage examples as long as they've been properly maintained. The trick is to keep up the maintenance, and budget accordingly.

... or you could just buy a Honda and experience the pinnacle of reliability. :twisted:
 
My dad owns a 2008 Freelander 2. Not a bad car and has been reliable until recently, appears to be diesel pressure issue other than that nothing has gone wrong. But with any diesel they do start becoming expensive to run when they get older, and need more attention than a petrol car of the same age.
 
wimmelman said:
Still researching the Freelander... After walking up to people in the street (owning a Freelander), I still am at the same conclusion: Everyone who owns Freelanders thinks it is just the best, and everyone who doesn't own one says it is rubbish.

Question for today: Buying a slightly higher mileage car is better, because all the initial problems and faults should have been sorted out by now. So it is just normal maintenance, right?

Love to hear what you guys think.
Click to expand...

Lurker01 said:
Postman Pot will agree with you. That's all I'm going to say - have to rush off now to buy a 20 year old dishwasher, will be awesome as all its issues will have been sorted ages ago and many years of trouble free service await me.
Click to expand...

Nah. Google an engineering principle called the bath tub curve. It's a graph of the failure rate of items over a period of time. Essentially, for a batch of the same products, those that are lemons will fail early on in the products life cycle, resulting in a high failure rate intially. Thereafter the failure rate drops markedly and for a period of time the rate is low and flat. However, after a few years pass, the rate of failure picks up rapidly as items age and simple mechanical failure due to stress and fatigue kicks in.

Thus, one can expect failure rate to increase after an item becomes "old" - not decrease. of course, if you buy in the period when the graph is "flat" then you should have missed most of the lemons - but you are closer to reaching the time when simple age starts causing failures.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top
Sign up to the MyBroadband newsletter
X