I got mine from Roverlord, Glasgow Manufacturing as I recall, OEM. About $300 a couple of years ago. IIRC How much is the ebay one?
Have just compared an original D2 TD5 radiator with an aftermarket radiator available on Ebay.
They look pretty much the same physically, BUT if you weigh them, the original weighs in at 6 kilos, the aftermarket Ebay special weighs in at 4.1kgs.
Since the plastic tanks are unlikely to be the source of teh weight loss, one can only assume that there is considerably less metal in the Ebay special.
Be careful who who source your spares from.
I got mine from Roverlord, Glasgow Manufacturing as I recall, OEM. About $300 a couple of years ago. IIRC How much is the ebay one?
D2a Td5 Manual, Chawton White. aka "Daisy"
Build date 11th Oct 2003
Freelander 2 2011, manual, the daughter calls it Perri
Before I had a Land Rover I did not have any torque wrenches. Now I have three.
LROCV #1410
Go cheap, buy twice.
And the cheap crap usually fails in a location that will cost more for recovery/repair than the better part would have.
Another vote for GM.
Regards PhilipA
I bought an medium priced aluminium one off Ebay. The brackets were all wrong for my V8. But they offered a goodly amount back for me to keep it. But then I spent a lot of time making new brackets to suit. The difficulty was the two oil coolers sit close to the original and closer to this one so building the brackets was fiddly to say the least. I would buy original next time.
I got mine from Roverlord, it is a Nissens (Denmark) and I will installed this week. I am expecting that it will be okay
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1999 build D2 TD5 Auto, Mantec snorkel, 2" LRA spring lift, ARB on board air, Ashcroft ATB, CMM air ram CDL shifter, swag & gold pans ....
The Cheap Ebay seller insists his radiator is made by Nissens, but coming out of China, and at 4.2 kg (price $180-270 depends on who who look at) compared to a Nissens /Danish made radiator weighing 6kg. (price range $302-380)
I checked weight of radiator with a Nissens (Europe) importer, and he says his weigh 6kg (same as the one in my D2).
Noticing many Britparts are now made in China, and I'm very cautious about the quality of any bearings (as in hubs, pulleys, tensioners) from there.
I'd ordered a Dayco serpentine belt from LR parts supplier in UK, but received a belt that had been made in China.
It was twice as thick as a Dayco and stiff, which might have made it harder to dissipate heat, and had many reinforcing fibres hanging out the side.
Basically, a pretty rough item, so I didn't use it.
Have been told by OEM LR parts seller (who also sells many parts made in ROC), that there is a code prefix on their parts so they know which are made in ROC.
Put simply - do not buy Britpart anything....
It’s nickname is ****part for a very good reason.
Lotsa vids out there re knock offs.
JayTee
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2000 D2 TD5 Auto: Tins
1994 D1 300TDi Manual: Dave
1980 SIII Petrol Tray: Doris
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Nanocom, D2 TD5 only.
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