Quote: Originally posted by PeteDeFeet on 07/2/2010

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Freelander, towing, PETROL.... ho ho ho.   Even though I'd advocate buying British, the 1.8l Freelander engine is an embarrasement to British Engineering.  It all started with a cheap cylinder head gasket - it blew at 60,000 miles, the engine overheated and the cylinder head warped. Because the head bolts run right down into the crankcase it meant a complete engine strip and rebuild. About £2000 at a dealer.....

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Yet again Gypsy is spouting false infomation !

Manufacturing

Land Rovers were manufactured primarily at the Solihull plant, near Birmingham, but production of the "Freelander" (2) was moved to the Jaguar car factory at Halewood near Liverpool, a former Ford car plant. Defender models are assembled under license in several locations worldwide, including Spain (Santana Motors), Iran (Pazhan Morattab), Brazil (Karmann)and Turkey (Otokar).^[17] The former BL/Rover Group technical centre at Gaydon in Warwickshire is home to the corporate and R&D headquarters.

Quote: Originally posted by Big Al on 01/2/2010

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Think you will find that your freeloader weighs in at something like 1450 to 1560 kgs

So lets be honest its not really suitable for tugging big heavy twin axle caravans !

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Don't know where your info came from but according to the handbook supplied with my vehicle its kerbweight with a full tank of fuel is 1712 kgs with a noseweight limit of 120kgs making it an 87% match with my twin axle caravan.

I would hope my handbook is right.

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Freelander 3-door	In production	Kerb Weight KG	85% Weight KG	Max Towing Weight Kg
1.8	2005	1427	1212	2000
2.0 Td4	2005	1555	1321	2000
2.5 V6	2005	1562	1327	2000

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Freelander 5-door	In production	Kerb Weight KG	85% Weight KG	Max Towing Weight Kg
1.8	2002	1457	1238	2000
2.0 Td4	2002	1619	1376	2000
2.5 V6	2002	1626	1382	2000

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Freelander 5-door	In production	Kerb Weight KG	85% Weight KG	Max Towing Weight Kg
1.8	2005	1457	1238	2000
2.0 Td4	2005	1640	1394	2000
2.5 V6	2005	1650	1403	2000

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Freelander	In production	Kerb Weight KG	85% Weight KG	Max Towing Weight Kg
1.8	2007	1427	1213	2000
2.5 V6	2007	1562	1327	2000
2.0 TD4	2007	1555	1322	2000

Quote: Originally posted by Big Al on 08/2/2010

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Yet again Gypsy is spouting false infomation !

Manufacturing

Land Rovers were manufactured primarily at the Solihull plant, near Birmingham, but production of the "Freelander" (2) was moved to the Jaguar car factory at Halewood near Liverpool, a former Ford car plant. Defender models are assembled under license in several locations worldwide, including Spain (Santana Motors), Iran (Pazhan Morattab), Brazil (Karmann)and Turkey (Otokar).^[17] The former BL/Rover Group technical centre at Gaydon in Warwickshire is home to the corporate and R&D headquarters.

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You need to read more carefully Al. My post actuallly said "I thought" (Landrovers were no longer made in Britain) so no "false information" at all. I was far from sure so did not actually claim to know ! 

Thank you for the information. If it's all correct then it looks like some Landrovers are still made in Britain, but some are not.

It's also true that the term `assembled' is of course not an indication of where the parts being assembled were actually manafactured.

Thanks for the info but don't accuse me of supplying "false information" - that was a `false accusation'. 

hi, owned a freelander td4 - 5 door 2005 model for 3 years and used it to tow an eldiss 534.

we had no problems apart from a hose on the engine that split and caused loads of smoke but cost just £6 to replace.

the four wheel drive joints can cause problems on these cars so insisit on a test drive and listed for any noise / cluncking from the rear of the car.

loads of these around, look for a se or a hse model. mpg from ours was approx 30 - 35mpg when towing.

Quote: Originally posted by Gypsydoll on 07/2/2010Didn't actually think any of the more recent Landrovers were made in Britain any more ? <IMG border=0 align=absMiddle src="https://www.ukcampsite.co.uk/chatter/forum_images/smiley5.gif">

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Hi all,

Re a Freelander for towing a caravan, I've been towing with one since just after the range was introduced and would recommend the diesel version. Think we're now on our fourth Freelander - Freelander 2.

Regards the kerbweight, the weights posted on the website mentioned earlier in this thread are either incorrect or misleading. They may be the weight of the entry level model with little or no "extra" kit. My current, and previous vehicle, has a kebweight of well over 1900kg according to it's V5 - something like 1945kg. The handbook quotes a figure of from 1640kg, but agian that depends on exactly what is fitted to that particular model

The freel2.com forum is quite good for info