Land Rover Freelander Head Gasket Failure
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This is the end of the road...iam not continuing on this site with others who are unable to grasp anything. Ive given 4 years on here and i have told the truth all along...im not in it to make money...im here to give advise and help people. I will not continue to have my advise called lies and anything i write be pushed under the table like i have other motives. People on here think theyre being clever by shouting down my advise and that they are helping people....well your not....other people come on here for advise for other items also, but like i said previous it will be no longer from me. Stewart and SteeleUK i wish you well and appreciate your additions to this very long thread....hope that your mods continue to give you long service...and if they dont i realise the fact you will get on with your life and take it on the chin.
thanks m8 and you too,i must say im surprised your letting an idiot like DONT BUY chase you off this site,im sure the vast majority of people realise hes just a wind up merchant,what you should have done is just blank him and dont reply to any of his posts whatsoever which is what im gonna do from now on cheers m8
hello Stu,ok well i have done 17000 miles since my replacement h/g and had no other kind of trouble whatso ever. cheers
Steeluk is right and it seems, the only member with so much mileage on his HG repair - so keep wotching this space all. Mitch - do you need any further guidance with the correct repair procedures? To simply info searches - just click on the member's name/personal info on the left of post. Remember these guys - Good luck all, I will be watching this space. Stewart W - Cape Town.
We want dudkat and the likes back on our friendly and, seemingly long standing Forum! My Labrador should be settling down in the UK right now, and ready for his task! dudkat, can you please PM me, I am finding it difficult to get yours. Incidentally, he has 20 Th Kms and 18 Mths since the MLS Plus plus Kit!!! So, that is the Forum's 2nd confirmed 'Life' with the MLS KIT! How's that steleeuk ?? Not a 'driveway job' though (LOL)! Now for my input, to balance the odds???? Serious members, can give this some thought! Repeat HG Failure :- The Car must go back to the original repairing Dealer, with the LR Forum Tech (or Independant Engineer) present during the diagnosis and, strip ? I DO NOT BELIEVE THAT REPAIRS ARE BEING CARRIED OUT TO SPEC, with Technical Ability - even in the LR Dealerships!! - definitely why, there are repeat HG issues! Please Forum, make sense of the following please. HG Failure? Overheating = Age of Vehicle? Poorly maintained Cooling Systems - lack of maintenance (SG of Coolant & annual replacement), hoses, pipes, valves, taps and radiator, not forgetting Pressure Cap? Heating Matrix Failures? Water Pump Seal failures (steelUK). MG TF's and Lotus' are worse - mid motor, front rads = long COLD plumbing ?? Makes you think beyond the obvious - "EVERYBODY SAYS HG Failure" - again !!! Yup. The K18 motor is a powerful, flexible and vibrant motor, but very critical with temperature regulation and driving attitude! Hammil spells it out in his book! Gud nite every one. See you all 2moro! Stewart W - Cape Town.
Please 'VENT yourself' on another Forum ........ I have to remind you, as others, .... you are encroaching a 'Family' here .... Please leave us peacefully ..... As in Africa. An injury to one, is an Injury to the family ......! My 'Kitty Cats' are interested in you now! ?? Your choice.... ?? Stewart W - Cape Town.
Im in the UK (minus car obviously) for my birthday and have actually been trying not to think about this over the weekend. The Swiss garage have my lovely (and evil) LR and Ive sent a mail today to ask for more time before a decision so I can digest all this info and get my head around these posts. Neither Swiss LR nor the garage that the car is at right now seem to know this issue well enough to fix it and so Im worried. At this point rather fly somene from th UK and fix it - probably be cheaper. Its such a shame its stuck in Switzerland and i cant get it back to Guy Salmon, Sockport. Im screwed really. Ive only been in Swiss since Jan and dont know that many people there and for anyone who has been the local Swissies are a very closed group when you are an expat and especially if you cant speak Swiss German. Options are still> 1. Scrap a 4 year old beautiful car. argh I cant speak to the Swiss German garage to get any futher sense out of them / I just know they dont want the car - its no ue to them right handed and thez say it would never sell apart from for scrap. Im not sure there is a good way out of this one. I really appreciate all the (sensible) posts and advice. Even if I got the recommended book - this Swiss guys wont be able to read it and woud probably do their own thing anyway. Damn. I just want my LR back up and running. I love that car. Ive tryed to ge the users BB details etc - but cant see it. Stewert Ive sent you an email. If there was a way to get the car to the UK it would be ideal but a the moment I think Im pretty screwed. Other option is get a good LR guy from UK (like SteeleUK)for cheap, fly to Basel and get it fixed (on driveway!!!) - would that be a possibility???? Thanks all Im still following the post Apologies for typos - Im on the oldest PC I ever saw with a v dodgy keyboard
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Hopefully someone will help you on this forum, my advice would be the same as Stu's, in that I would put it on one of the European Ebay websites. I sold mine on Ebay UK, and funny enough it was bought by a Polish couple who were working in the UK, they came to collect it with a car trailer, the husband was a qualified mechanic, its now somewhere in Poland. Europe is a pretty big place, so there maybe someone who may be looking for one. Or why not get your dad to hire a car trailer, and tow it back home. The decision you have to make is a hard one, I was in exactly the same boat with my Freelander, you were very, very unlucky that the headgasket failure happened in Switzerland. Hope all goes well.
Whos gonna give Mitch any tech advice then since you have pissed every1 off so much whos able to give advice that they have left the site !
Cant help with the LR I'm afraid (long time since I was a mech and that was on heavy plant :-))but good luck with getting it sorted.
You or anyone else do not have to read my posts! Just ignore what I am saying, if you do not agree with me then this is the best option. But I certainly will be voicing my opinion, when someone says they have had no headgaskets failure in 2.5 years if the new modified gasket is fitted correctly. This is not what my local garage are saying. And Mitch's Freelander is testament to what I am saying! Yet another headgasket failure, and who repaired her previous headgasket failure? A Land Rover dealer, if he can't fix it, who can!!! I agree with Stu, this 4x4 has brought much happiness and lots and lots of misery when it goes wrong! And if you had one like mine its going to cost you £££££'s we are talking in the £1,000's Cut out the bad language please!
same applies m8,if you dont wanna see me use bad language..dont read my posts..if i dont wanna see you waffle on and on and ooooon i wont read yours
yes that gives us a bit of hope,i still check my water every few days just to be on the safe side but it only needs topping up every 3/4 months! the guy who sorted my h/g also did me a major service earlier in the year and that was only £250 ! he also stamped my service book. hope alls well in africa and dont 4get to feed your pussycats lmao
"LR Forum Techs - please leave it OPEN" - I can sort issues .... steleekuk - ASAP, try to contact your guy for liason with Mitch. Dudkat, NEED A PARTS LIST and Diagnosis Check List ASAP; please try and get hold of me on [Log in to view email] This 'PM' thing Freeking me - can't get it to work? Filrabrey - HELP Please! Openly ! Don't Buy LR ... if you interfere with us ....... 'The Kats' will find you within 6 hours Mate !! Please leave us alone, and go away!
Stewart W - Cape Town.
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