C Class Estate or Freelender 2 HSE???
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Thinking of trading the wife's E Class in for either a C Class Sport Estate or Land Rover Freelandser HSE, they would be roughly an '09 plate. Anyone had one or heard any horror stories, both would be auto & diesel with preferably panoramic roof. I've always ran Merc's and found them to be reasonably reliable and slightly worried about changing to a Land Rover for reliabilty, sounds bizarre as you're meant to be able to climb mountains but they seem to break going to the shops!! Whats the build quality like in a Landie after a few years, with the Merc's its still rattle free??
Also the trade-in values are their usual ridiculous so if anyone fancies a mint 2005 E Class let me know.
Also the trade-in values are their usual ridiculous so if anyone fancies a mint 2005 E Class let me know.
My parents have a 59 plate Freelander 2 TD4_e HSE with all the options and it's a lovely car. A miniture Range Rover!
I've driven it a fair amount and it's great to drive (a bit wallowy, obviously) and some trim bits are a bit plasticy but they've never had a problem with it, just regular servicing.
The only real negative I can think of is that it seems to make passengers in the rear feel a bit sea-sick sometimes.
The auto wipers and lights and parking sensors annoy the s
t out of me, but that because i'm a bit old skool for that type of stuff!
Heated leather works great on winters days, sat/nav does what it's supposed to, panoramic roof is a nice bonus. TD4 is quite torquey low down and the '_e' bit means it cuts the engine when you stop at lights to save a bit of diesel.
They were thinking of selling it to get an Evoke but I don't see the point. Not sure the Evoke is suited to folk in their early 70s!
I've driven it a fair amount and it's great to drive (a bit wallowy, obviously) and some trim bits are a bit plasticy but they've never had a problem with it, just regular servicing.
The only real negative I can think of is that it seems to make passengers in the rear feel a bit sea-sick sometimes.
The auto wipers and lights and parking sensors annoy the s
t out of me, but that because i'm a bit old skool for that type of stuff!Heated leather works great on winters days, sat/nav does what it's supposed to, panoramic roof is a nice bonus. TD4 is quite torquey low down and the '_e' bit means it cuts the engine when you stop at lights to save a bit of diesel.
They were thinking of selling it to get an Evoke but I don't see the point. Not sure the Evoke is suited to folk in their early 70s!
Thanks for the feedback guys, I should really take her out to drive one and see what she thinks, she had an ML previously and loved it, the issue is where we live can get snow quite badly and she refuses to take the Merc out the garage and has to walk to work and thats why we are considering another 4x4. Looked at the Q5, X3&X1, and XC60 and she definetley preffered the Land Rover, the only thing is I'd rather buy from a Land Rover dealer in order to get the warranty as I'm terrified it will breakdown!!
sherman said:
Pentland at newbridge just outside edinburgh.
OP, make that journey! I can't vouch for their service, but having been totally ignored at LR in Glasgow (both Taggarts and Shields) when poking around their demos, only to go home and phone the Taggarts sales manager and have him tell me that he was busy at that moment, and could I call HIM back the next day, I'd give them a wide berth!If I'd known there was a PH-er at LR in Edinburgh I'd have gone there myself! I was very impressed with the FL2 in HSE trim (even the XS is nicely specced IMO if you get it with Nav and the alcantara), nearly swayed me away from a new E-Class estate, but if you're comparing it to the C-Class estate I'd go for the FL2 personally - discreetly classy, great driving position and bigger than I thought it'd be inside. Fuel and servicing didn't seem like it'd much different from running a Merc.
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