Puma Filter Prices

[CapeLandy]

Our dealers on this side of the pond are extremely expensive regarding oil, air and fuel filters.
Do you guys use your local dealers or import from the UK aftermarket suppliers?
I see paddocks have a complete britpart filter set for GBP 27 which is cheaper than I can get just the air filter here.
Do you guys think that I should only use original filters or are there suppliers doing reasonable coppies and if so which brands/suppliers do you buy from.

Thanks
James

[NQExplorers]

James, just had mine serviced at the local Land Rover agent (30,000km) - genuine Land Rover Parts.

(Australian Dollars)

Oil Filter $24.86
Oil (7 litres Shell Ultra) $144.55
Diff Oil (front and rear diffs) $98.10

How does that compare to what you are paying over there?

Warren.

[ugu80]

That's quite a mark up over retail, even for fully synthetic oil. 4 litres of fully synthetic Motul 75/90 diff oil should retail for $80-$85 (diffs hold less than 4 lit). If its mineral oil, it would cost the dealer less than half that. Same with the engine oil, expect to pay around $100 8 lit semi syn 15/50 Penrite HPR diesel at most supercrap/repco/etc. I pay around $13 for Coopers oil filters.

[spudfan]

I bought my Puma from an independent. I had an early oil change after 6 months. He used a Britpart oil filter. This started to leak so I got him to change it. He used another Britpart filter-this leaked too. Not much and maybe no one else would have noticed but as mine was parked on clean concrete I did. I had it into a maindealer for the engine management light coming on -one of the sensors was changed- and mentioned the leaking oil filter. They put on a genuine Land Rover filter and no more leaks. People say that a filter is a filter is a filter but I wonder and there is my evidence. If your Brit part filter did leak would Paddocks send you out a replacement?

[one_iota]

Spend AUD $52,000 on a new Defender

Spend AUD $1.30 for every 8 -10 km on fuel. (that's at least $1560 every 12,000km)

Then there is registration and insurance.

And you want to save how much on a new filter and some oil every 12,000 km?

Isn't that penny pinching? :p:D

[CapeLandy]

Penny pinching is in my nature and the only way I could afford to get the defender in the first place.
Maintaining it in between services is important to me and I wanted to pay reasonable prices for filters, not 4 times the price it's worth.
I service at the dealer at 20K intervals but inbetween I want to pay something affordable.

[gitney]

Thought i'd bring an old post back from the dead.

Where are people getting their puma air filters from? OEM or aftermarket ones? Is there a distributor in Australia?
Does the TD5 filter fit in the Puma air box?

Cheers,
Chris

[Loubrey]

Chris,

I asume your's is still in waranty in which case there is really no alternative to OEM equipment. Unfortunately UK Land Rover dealers are not allowed to send you genuine parts as it would undemine Land Rover's Australian market. I have through a mate in the UK ordered 3 complete service kits from Duckworth Land Rover (UK) and had them forwarded and delivered to my house in rural WA for the price of 1 over the counter kit from the Perth dealers.

Duckworth Land Rover 2.4 Tdci Service Kits (http://www.duckworthparts.co.uk/landrover/d2Defender_2.4_Tdci_Service_Kits.html)

This is obviously not an option for most people and as Mahn wrote in the old post, for the money spent on buying and running the car there is just no option other than reaching into your pocket and buying from the dealer (at least untill after waranty runs out).

As far as I know there is no filter compatible between Td5 and Tdci (Puma).