Land Rover Freelander Head Gasket Failure
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My friend had a Disco 3, it was always going wrong!! You keep buying your Land Rovers, I perfer to stick to other manufacturers, since disowning my Freelander, my bank balance has got bigger and bigger and thats in the black and NOT in the red. I certainly will not be letting Land Rover off the hook for producing such an unreliable 4x4!! Kind Regards Dont buy a Freelander
You were a very lucky boy. You would not get a good price for a Freelander now. The 4x4 has had its day, especially the Freelander. If you do not believe me ring any dealer and ask what they would give you in PX for your 4x4. You will get peanuts!! Trust me you will get peanuts!!
With the money you have lost, you could have bought a reliable car!!! My advice: steer clear of Land Rover. If you have lots of money to loose, buy a Land Rover!!!
Get a quote for an Audi,Bmw,Porsche, you will find that there isnt alot of difference between them . That comment proves what ive been saying on here for ages , the majority have bought a car that is clearly outside their means and when it packs up expect someone else to pay for your inhability to do your homework ...Life is tough ...you should have bought a VW!! Oh and i do read the forum the only difference is , i know what im talking about where as you however are on a one man mission and are looking to recruit as many people to fight your own corner. The facts of warranty remain as per the previous post...to be honest i dont really care if you agree or not.
You were a very lucky boy." Don't I know it!!!
I have to disagree with a lot of your points. No, I have no knowledge whatsoever of other LR models. The reason I said that dealers will treat owners like dirt is because that is how we were treated and I would not imagine it would have been any different had we owned a different model. I base my comments on my experience with both the dealership and LR Head Office, who were absolutely appalling. If I buy shoes which then break and the shop doesn't help me, I would not then return to that shop to buy a dress. So the model type makes no difference. You are wrong to say that people who bought new etc etc will get 100% help because we did not. We bought a top of the range V6 brand new and certainly not 'outside our means', thank you. We took it back to the same dealer to have it fully serviced every year. The amount of things that went wrong on it was unbelievable. Then when it was just 100 miles outside of the warranty the head gasket went, although it was driving perfectly. Unfortunately we took their word that the hg had gone and we needed a new engine, I am now rather more suspicious about the whole thing. We had to fight for 4 months to get them to pay 50% of the £5000 needed for the 'new' (probably reconditioned) engine. During this time they wanted storage costs for our car being in their workshop! So, I'm sorry but you are completely misguided when you believe that it is only second hand owners who are being badly treated. Go spend £25,000 at LR and see how you feel when you are treated like dirt. We have still got the Freelander because nobody wants it but have had to buy a second car as a backup because we just know it will break down at a vital moment, on the way to a wedding or holiday etc. How ridiculous is that! I have never known a car like it, and have owned many different types and makes of car in my life. So please don't be misguided, Dudkat, when the facts speak differently.
Now on to Mercedes - 3 years later not a problem with anything and wow the customer service is something else. And don't anyone tell me you pay for what you get because the servicing costs via both the LR and Mercedes dealers is the same!
I agree entirely! We only bought LR in the first place because we thought they had a good name!! How wrong can you be! And it's not a question of getting what you pay for. My daughter has an X-reg Citroen Saxo, just an old basic model, with 75,000 miles on the clock, but when she books it into the dealership for anything at all, she is treated like royalty, given a courtesy car, nothing is too much trouble. What a difference! Sometimes they even do bits of work for her for free! I would never ever ever buy anything remotely connected with LR ever again, and I tell everyone I know this. When I see other Freelander drivers, I feel sorry for them and want to tell them to sell it asap! Sorry you've had the same problems as us.
Your vehicle would not be 100 miles out of warranty , seeing as it is an unlimited mileage warranty that isnt true. How old was the vehicle when the hg supposedly failed ? Im not misguided , just a little bit more versed in this subject than you appear to be . With regards to my comments about these vehicles being outside peoples means ....you have done what everybody else does on here and unable to read ...i said the majority and not everyone .
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Im not defending Land Rover , never had and never will... I know far more crooked " 2nd hand car salesmen " that operate in non franchise garages than franchise ....There ...we can all make statistcs , in fact i would say that there are thousands out there !!
You might be "a little more versed in this subject" than I am, but I am more versed about my own car. I can assure you it was 100 miles out of warranty according to Land Rover Head Office. It had gone in for its 5-year annual service when we had a phone call to say the head gasket had gone and it needed a new engine - £5000. It is an 02 plate, bought brand new and always serviced at the dealers. And please do not tell me what is and isn't true about my own car.
No your vehicle would not be 100 miles out of warranty because it had a 3 year unlimited mileage warranty . So your car went in for its 5th year service ....so was it 5 years old ?
Everone has there own disaster with LR and have there own views. When I first logged in I had bought an 1800 petrol heap which I had for 3 weeks when the HG went. The garage I used was not a dealership as I have had dealings with the high faluting attitude from big dealerships before. Small garage fixed the HG and couple of other associated bits that needed doing. total loss £1000. Never drove again lost faith. Sat on my drive since January Sold car through company on internet got £3100 for it not bad for an 03. I think when you argue over individual cases which are going to be different attitudes then you are losing the main reason that this site is here. which is to put together a site to fight LR before they go bust.
good luck
Its only a matter of time before Land Rover go the same way as Rover. Tell your family and friends and the world how you were treated by Land Rover and the Land Rover dealer. Land Rover must be loosing customers by the bucket load, judging by the bad feeling on this site and others. Land Rover keep making unreliable cars and treating you customers very badly and you only have yourself to blame when you go BUST!!! Just going out to put new discs and pads on my Ford Mondeo with 160,000 on the clock, still as good as when I purchased it 4 years ago. Cost me absolutely nothing over the last 4 years, wish I could say that about the Freelander that I once owned. The Freelander cost me an absolute fortune in the 4 years my wife had it. Come on Land Rover it is still not too late to recall all Freelanders and sort the problems for good. DONT BUY A FREELANDER!!!!!!!!
You quite simply do not get this forum!! So so many people have had problems with the Freelander. But you keep telling us that we know nothing!! There is one thing we all know and that is the Freelander is a rubish 4x4. Look at the honest review sites, speak to anyone in the motor trade. The will tell you the same! We will unfortunate Dudkat have to agree not to agree!!! But don't you worry if any of my friend or family even think of buying the Freelander I will put the right! I would not put my worst enemy through what we went through when we owned the Freelander. Land Rover said: ''It was the best 4x4 by far, the best 4x4 in its class''. I unfortunately found mine to be: ''The worst 4x4 by far'' As with the majority of people on this site, it was the worst car buying experience I have ever had!! Keep defending Land Rover Dudkat if you like. At least this is a Free Country where you can voice your own opinion, even if Dudkat does not agree. Kind Regards DONT BUY A FREELANDER!!!! (OR YOU WILL BE SORRY, TRUST ME ON THAT ONE)
I know what this website is about , ive been on here for years giving people advise about this vehicle ( do you think some 880 post ive spent defeding LR ? ) however im getting a little tired OF REPEATING MYSELF . I originally advised you ( if you remember ) that if your were to be sucessful with your website you need to get the proper info on there which at the time you didnt as you were saying there was 2 headgaskets fitted.....how can i be defeding them when ive given you info to put on there !! Lets look at Cruellas case.....it appears she is complaining about 50% contribution when her car was 5 yrs old , Her warranty run out 2 YEARS PREVIOUS ....WHAT PART OF THAT DONT YOU UNDERSTAND !! You dont know half the story behind this problem , every case needs looking at seperately and not under the dreaded hg failure .... I have never ever defended LR over this ... jsut given advice
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Edited by dudkat72 8 July 2009, 1:21 PM
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