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Posted by charlie on 12/2/2007, 9:26 pm, in reply to "Freelander overheating"
Yep. Your engine is probably the V6 2.5L. Cylinder sleeve "creep", even only 2/1000 will cause all hell to break loose inside the block. you will have to replace the engine with a new or reman, unfortunately there are none in North America short of a many months wait. Lots of us in the same boat. These engines are rolling time bombs.
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: For a week or so, every time the car was
: switched off, the electric fan would
: continue to run for up to a minute,
: something it had never done previously.
: Today, after a short journey of around 5
: miles, the temp gauge went through the roof
: and the car smelled strongly of overheating.
: I lifted the bonnet to find no water left in
: the cooling syatem so I filled it back up. I
: took the top off the expansion reservoir and
: there seems to be the usual circulation of
: water.
:
: Any ideas as to what the problem might be?
:
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