Oh What a Feeling!

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Originally Posted by dobbo

So you bringing the FreeLander up to Rope Rd then?

If a Rocky can do it (with damage inflicted) then surely a FreeLander can?

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Yeah rite - I get caught up on the kerbs in the Red Rooster car park - but at least mine does get off road from time to time - with care.

Gazz

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Originally Posted by Pedro_The_Swift

maybe he wants one of these--
http://www.landroverforums.com/upfil...D5E83648BF.jpg

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just so Im sure--

this is the 2007 Freelander--- right?

comeon stick to the tojo issues-we've all heard enough landy ones:wasntme: :angel:

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Originally Posted by garrycol

I wouldn't get too cocky - my brand new disco crapped its clutch at 600km, again at 1500 and again at about 4000 - the vibration it caused resulted in a gearbox being rebuilt at 20,000. Fixed with a machined bell housing - at the time they were not available new through parts (my car was the first shipment with R380 gearboxes so parts had not been were not in stock) and the new car was going to have to be off the road for 6 weeks waiting for a new bell housing to be shipped from the UK.

The bell housing had not been cast correctly and everything was out of alignment causing the clutch not to sit flat on the flywheel - all the vibration caused the input shaft to the gearbox to shake wrecking the bearings - luckily the gearbox problem was identified and rebuilt before catastrophic failure.

So Landys do this sort of this too so I wouldn't poke the stick at the toyo people too much.

Gazzz

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In the 1970's I spent a little while managing a fleet of rep's cars, light commercials, and 4WD's. The Land Cruisers would spit their clutches when used as I expected they should & would be. We tried the apparent solution of a stronger after-market clutch. Ha! They then spat the rear diff. My workshop foreman and I then had a good look at the powertrain and came to the conclusion that the clutch was the fusible link. Cheaper to repair under warranty than redesigning and producing a better diff. For a long time I had a very jaundiced opinion of Toyota product & particularly their warranty policies. Never admit a problem and never accept responsibility was Toyota's polcy. Definitely never pay out unless they could delay and back a dealer into a corner with the client. "Ahh, Soo". Toyotasan must not lose face". Then I had dealings with Ford since when I have regarded Ford as the mafia of the motor industry.

Rockys....., hardly ever see one these days. I got one to fly in an ad for the dear rocky about 1992 i think, even got an award for the tv commercial! Howzat? Later, Fernando at Daihatsu said it had a major failure of the sub frame (broke in half) but i reckon some 'motor journos' flogged it rotten before we got for the commercial (couldn't even see the motor for all the mud). every time it landed off a 3 foot high jump, a cloud of dry mud fell from god knows where.....GQ