Land Rover Freelander
Registered from 2002 to 2005.
About this model
The Land Rover Freelander is a series of four-wheel-drive vehicles that was manufactured and marketed by Land Rover from 1997 to 2015. The second generation was sold from 2007 to 2015 in North America and the Middle East as the LR2 and in Europe as the Freelander 2. The Freelander was sold in both two-wheel and four-wheel drive versions. The name 'Freelander' is derived from the combination of 'Freedom' and 'Lander'.
From the Wikipedia article Land Rover Freelander, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Crash test
| Stability control | No |
| Forward collision warning | No |
| Lane departure warning | No |
Crash-tested by NHTSA, the American road safety agency.
Specification
| Year | Measured |
|---|---|
| 2005 | 1626 kg · 2560 mm wheelbase · 13.8 L/100km (EPA) · 14.7 L/100km city · 12.4 motorway · Suv, 4-door |
| 2004 | 1626 kg · 2560 mm wheelbase · 13.8 L/100km (EPA) · 14.7 L/100km city · 12.4 motorway · Suv, 4-door |
| 2003 | 1626 kg · 2560 mm wheelbase · 13.8 L/100km (EPA) · 15.7 L/100km city · 12.4 motorway · Suv, 4-door |
| 2002 | 3444 kg · 2560 mm wheelbase · 13.8 L/100km (EPA) · 15.7 L/100km city · 12.4 motorway · Suv, 4-door |
Regulator investigations
Opened by NHTSA's Office of Defects Investigation. An investigation is a question the regulator asked about a possible defect, not a fault it found — most end without a recall.
Fuel pump failure - stall
Engineering analysis, opened December 2007, closed December 2008.
Fuel pump failure
Preliminary evaluation, opened July 2007, closed December 2007.
Brake light switch failure
Engineering analysis, opened October 2005, closed February 2007.
What the maker told its dealers
Service bulletins are the manufacturer's own repair guidance to dealers, filed with NHTSA. A bulletin is not a defect finding; the count rises with how many things a maker writes down, not only with how many go wrong.
Land Rover filed 33 bulletins about the 2005 Freelander.
- Fuel system, gasoline: 6
- Equipment: 4
- Service brakes, hydraulic: 4
- Wheels: 4
- Fuel system, other: 3
- Visibility: 3
- Electrical system: 2
- Power train: 2
- Engine and engine cooling: 1
- Fuel system, diesel: 1
- Other: 3
- Technical Bulletin: Windshiefld Wiper Noise/Judder/Streak · October 2022
- Technical Bulletin: Wheel/Tire Balancing and Optimization · October 2022
- Technical Bulletin: Wheel/Tire Balancing and Optimization · October 2022
- Technical Bulletin: Windshiefld Wiper Noise/Judder/Streak · June 2022
- Technical Bulletin: Wheel/Tire Balancing and Optimization · June 2022
- Technical Bulletin: Wheel/Tire Balancing and Optimization · June 2022
- Technical Bulletin: Squeaks & Rattles Kit Availability · June 2022
- Service Action: Fuel Pump Module Operation · December 2021
25 more.
Grouped by NHTSA's top-level system; a bulletin filed under a sub-heading counts toward its system.