Thread: Servicing Schedule - by time, or by km's?

Technically the vehicle needs to be serviced every 12 months
whether the car has done 5k or 26k however $2080
is very expensive.

It would be interesting to know why the 48k/24mth service is
$1000.00 more than the 24k/12mth

Every single driver is different, so vehicle maintanance should be
flexible depending upon your vehicles requirments.

Did your vehicle require the same service a vehicle with 48,000klm
on the odo? I don't think so.

i recon it is whatever comes first,so at two yrs,if the k's are not up,it gets the 2yr service.if the k's are up before two yrs,it gets the service at the k's.

hope that makes sense........

The breakdown was $600 labour, and around $600 parts (parts list looked reasonable, including the $251 for engine oil...)

The additional $800 was for the additional items (brakes, wheel rotate, balance, align).

So if I gave them the benefit of the doubt, perhaps it was worth the same amount of time to check all the aging components, but the $500 reduction in cost was due to not needing as many parts replaced as a 48,000km car?

Of course the other issue was that if I don't get this serviced according to the book, then I may be up for warranty claim issues in the future?

perhaps you should consider calling another Land rover dealer next time.
Some dealers are quite reasonable price wise

Originally Posted by eddomak

The breakdown was $600 labour, and around $600 parts (parts list looked reasonable, including the $251 for engine oil...)

The additional $800 was for the additional items (brakes, wheel rotate, balance, align).

So if I gave them the benefit of the doubt, perhaps it was worth the same amount of time to check all the aging components, but the $500 reduction in cost was due to not needing as many parts replaced as a 48,000km car?

Of course the other issue was that if I don't get this serviced according to the book, then I may be up for warranty claim issues in the future?

you want to question that....

I took the ford dealership that was servicing big red to town over charging me to do a tyre rotation as part of a major service

there logic was they had to put the vehicle on the hoist then remove the tyres then move them around then put them back on. My instant reply was "how did you change the brake pads and the service the wheel bearings without taking them off then? what did you do with them once you had them off? When their answers were "we take the wheels off and then stack them in the corner of the servicing bay" I questioned so once you put them all back on did you take them off again to rotate them? when answered "no" i asked why the spare wheel had not been rotated into the pattern and then refused to pay for the service until I had personally checked ALL the claimed work had been done.

Surprisingly this was a conversation held AFTER the service with the conversation about charging me to change the spark plugs on a deefer.

the service schedule is done by both Time and KM...

in this case time came up first.

when you get to 48 K Km you get the 48K Km service if you're lucky (and with the current K's you will be) it'll fall due at the 4 year service mark.

$251 for engine oil WTF !!!! 6.6l of 5W/30fully synthetic wouldnt even be $100.
I suppose the tripling of cost of the oil ,is to pay fpr the speshul soopa doopa sump sucker LOL

I was charged $196.00 for oil at my last service.
The oil was Castrol SLX Pro Powerflow.................sounds very expensive at least.

Cheers, Craig

Yep same charge for oil here...