New Freelander a Lemon????

[DK]

Was just reading the Herald Sun in Melbourne and it has an article on the new Freelander and it looks like it may live up to the Landy reputation...

The first few lines of the story sum it up

"When you see a man with a fire extinguisher running towards your car screaming get out,its a good idea to follow his advice"

The story goes onto say that the vechile was and has been used for the past few weeks for the worldwide press review...Unfortunately for Landrover it died and in fair fashion,the story finishes like this

"It quickly emerged that the in-line six in our Freelander had suffered a catastrophic blow up.A conrod had come through the side of the block...The engineering team at Landrover have promised to strip the engine down and give a reason for the failure"

Not a great start to what actually looks like quiete a nice machine........

[Simo63]

Was just reading the Herald Sun in Melbourne and it has an article on the new Freelander and it looks like it may live up to the Landy reputation...

The first few lines of the story sum it up

"When you see a man with a fire extinguisher running towards your car screaming get out,its a good idea to follow his advice"

The story goes onto say that the vechile was and has been used for the past few weeks for the worldwide press review...Unfortunately for Landrover it died and in fair fashion,the story finishes like this

"It quickly emerged that the in-line six in our Freelander had suffered a catastrophic blow up.A conrod had come through the side of the block...The engineering team at Landrover have promised to strip the engine down and give a reason for the failure"

Not a great start to what actually looks like quiete a nice machine........

Sounds like they are still the same lemons .... just a different vintage.

[Reddo]

Is the Freelander still build in Malaysia and Thailand?? Maybe they need to build them elsewhere!!

[1tonsoup]

What happens when you give the Land Rover engineers a perfectly good Volvo engine to mess about with? Answer at the top of the page.

[Reddo]

Yeah and the Volvo stuff was supposed to be the cure for all the previous evils!

[Philip A]

You know, rod through blocks are usually the result of what the yanks call
a "money shift" ie vast overrev caused by selecting say 2nd instead of 4th.

I have had considerable experience with motor journalists and "pretend" motor journalists and I have found few that could drive a nail let alone a car.
Regards Philip A

[Reddo]

yeah but it would have a rev limiter, so should not have done that....

[shakes]

a rev limiter will only stop you from over revving, not the gears from forcing the motor over

[Loanrangie]

I want to know how and why on earth did they stick an east west straight six under the bonnet !

[lexi]

Freelanders are built in the UK at the same plant as Jaguar. Love em or loath em, they are set to be a huge success. They are actually the best selling thing of their type in Europe already and this version has more options. Not for me though

Alex