Old MK1 Freelander...
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Looking for a cheap off roader to do some green lanes, pay n play etc with my little boy, my Land Rover mad little boy! As it will be purely for knocking about in I have been looking at cheap freelanders. One has caught my eye, very local, loads of miles and Auto...are the Auto boxes in these generally alright? Rest of the Freelander seems in good order, TD4 etc, its the gearbox thats stopping me buying it at this point
So, Auto, yay or nay?
So, Auto, yay or nay?
largespiced said:
with my little boy, my Land Rover mad little boy!
Some worldly advice, you really need to get him off that!I was once the same, when my dad had a Series 2 back when i was 8 years old.
I'm now over 50 and have had nearly 50 Land Rovers, I've just sold a lovely, mint, RS4 and buying yet another td5 Defender... because I didn't want to run the RS4 through Winter and don't want to run my even nicer Land Rover 90 through Winter either (though I'll never sell that)..
From a comfy, fast, quiet, warm, dry 420bhp daily to 120bhp of noisy dampness, for the same money
I've even had 2 early Freelanders and a later SD4 Freelander..
As others said above, check it's got 2 props!!!
I've used a Mk 1 Freelander for the British Cross Country Rally Championships.
It was a grass roots rally series (Comp Safari) so relatively cheap to compete.
Apart from the well known head gasket and VCU issues, they are a very strong car.
I was "navigating" my son when he rolled the car into a ditch at 80 odd mph.
Yes, it bent it. Ripped the rear subframe off. But the body never came near the roll cage.
Managed to complete the season with some repairs....the back door was about an inch away from the body at the top, and the boy said it went round left handers better than right handers, but it soldiered bravely on.
Huge fun, although the gap between 1st and 2nd was a little too wide for some steep climbs.
You could do a lot worse for a bit of mild laning.
Auto: the Help for Heroes guys ran a V6 in the series due to lack of limbs. V6 is Auto only.
In the slippy stuff I know they had problems with the electronics trying to take over, then going into overload!
No idea if it's a similar box to the little engines.
I know the Freelander 1 gets slated, but having used and abused one, I have a lot of respect for what they can handle.
It was a grass roots rally series (Comp Safari) so relatively cheap to compete.
Apart from the well known head gasket and VCU issues, they are a very strong car.
I was "navigating" my son when he rolled the car into a ditch at 80 odd mph.
Yes, it bent it. Ripped the rear subframe off. But the body never came near the roll cage.
Managed to complete the season with some repairs....the back door was about an inch away from the body at the top, and the boy said it went round left handers better than right handers, but it soldiered bravely on.
Huge fun, although the gap between 1st and 2nd was a little too wide for some steep climbs.
You could do a lot worse for a bit of mild laning.
Auto: the Help for Heroes guys ran a V6 in the series due to lack of limbs. V6 is Auto only.
In the slippy stuff I know they had problems with the electronics trying to take over, then going into overload!
No idea if it's a similar box to the little engines.
I know the Freelander 1 gets slated, but having used and abused one, I have a lot of respect for what they can handle.
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