TD5 Owners...

Just seen my local spanner monkey about somehting else, but he mentioned
he's getting loads of TD5's with holed pistons, mainly down to injectors
falling to bits. He says if the fuel consumption & smoke start, dont delay.

 

FFS - Landrover group...

 

I'm still no closer to knowing what a TD5 is...

 

Td5 Land Rover engine, 5 pot 2.5 turbo diesel, like all Land rover engines,
it has it's problems & they seem to have just started to get worse..

 

Plus ca change. My old IIA was the most unreliable car I've ever owned
(& I've owned a couple of 80s Alfas). I was thinking of getting a
Freelander last year, but thankfully did lots of googling first. Jesus
wept.

 

A colleague has literally just turned up in his new-to-him 57-plate
Disco 3 TdV6, chuffed to bits. Any scare stories I can bait him with?

 

Mine was one of the better of that era and the only vehicle that I've
ever made a profit on. Bought for £1800 and sold 2 years and many
miles later for £2400.

I am not sure I could be persuaded to buy another modern one mind.

 

Freelanders are utter shit, D2's are OK, D1's last forever if you catch the
rust.

Modern stuff is fucking impressive, but still not Japoanese.

 

Had one of them, it went back.

Failure to start at every verse end, air suspension problems, squeeling
parking brake.

Quite slow & thirsty, gearbox can implode.

The best of the lot, a full body off for a £1.90 belt change at 100k

The Range Rover i replaced it with was a much better vehicle.

 

@news.eternal-september.org:

Lofty (Tom Watt the actor) bought a Freelander when they came out, just
after he bought mum's spare cottage. It spent weeks & weeks in the garage
either because it broke or it needed yet another recall.

 

You little name-dropper, you.

 

I thought it would've been the "spare cottage" thing that got the
response.

Is it time to mention Rober Plant's a **** again?

 

You haven't got a whole lot of love for him then?

 

Blimey - you do ramble on.

 

That's the Way

 

I'm going to take a massive guess. A Landrover

 

As P,T, Barnum said, "There's a sucker born every minute."