1999 Land Rover Freelander Clicking sound

Tiny
CORINNA_BELLA
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  • 1999 LAND ROVER FREELANDER
  • 4WD
  • MANUAL
  • 220,000 MILES
Hi,

I have bought a car and after a few weeks I noticed a clicking sound, one single click, following a change of gears (getting going from 1-2). It has now progressed to also making a single or two times, click when I take my foot off the accelerator after acclerating in the getting going stage.

It sounds motion based, if that makes any sense, it happens at the point where the cars momentum halts for a moment after moving forward.

Do you have any idea what this is?

Have had some other issues :

1. Power steering fluid leak - resolved with that stop leak / power steering fluid combo
2. Right indicator bulb and reverse lights out - replaced globes

Currently
1. Clicking sound
2. Brake light coming on intermittently while driving particularly up hills - I understand this is probably low brake fluid so I'll top that up tomorrow.
3. Air con - can hear fans running and the sound increases appropriately as the dial setting is turned up, however only a very tiny amount of air comes out and is warm.

I hope you can help as I am a girl and I can't afford to get done by a mechanic at the moment. Was quoted $140 for the indicator and reverse lights which I fixed myself in 15 mins for $6.80 after watching a utube video.
Friday, February 13th, 2015 AT 11:31 PM

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Tiny
HMAC300
  • MECHANIC
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The clicking may be the ujoints in driveshaft. The brake light coming on may be as you say or if it's the one on cluster then if it continues have your abs unit scanned for codes. It may have a problem with that. The pic I'm sending is off of a discovery as I don't know what a Freelander model is but it should be similar. Check to see if the pieces are moving when yo move your cables as that controls direction and you may have a broken/disconnected cable and not moving the part for better air. Control. If it is auto temp control where you set the temp a mechanic has to scan for codes to find the problem.
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Saturday, February 14th, 2015 AT 6:03 AM

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