Thread: Am I being short changed by my service schedule?

Originally Posted by Disco4SE

Do yourselves a massive favour and get the oil & filter changed every 13,000 Klm's.
Extremely cheap insurance and better appreciated when you re-sell.

Cheers, Craig

We did as you did, had a real service at 12,500ks and will contiue to have it serviced at the halfway service points, we tow and do a lot of outback Ks, so this is a no brainer, we are also having to transmission done at 80,000ks as well.

As you say cheap insurance.

Baz.

I am 2 weeks into a new D4 and also on a corporate plan. The sticker says first service is due at 12,000 k's whereas the manual says 24,000 k's/12 mths.

Disappointing... I didn't notice until now that the car has no mudflaps for offroad. Another addition required.

I do like the rear camera as I can now see the tow bar. No more yelling at each other from the back of the car when/after hitching on the camper.

M D3

I haven't really got to the bottom of my query but I seem to have opened up another debate and user opinion review.

So it seems that from what plenty have suggested on here, and other forums, and despite what must have been millions of pounds spent by LR in their R&D budgets that they got it wrong. Popular opinion is that although what they say in their warranty contracts, I should get my car serviced twice a much as they suggest.

Really!!!!!! surely not.

Times have changed and progress is made so maybe gone are the days of back yard tinkering and constant meddling with fluids, rotating stuff and playing with things in the hope you are getting more product life. If it was that necessary surely a global brand of this magnitude would have told us.

Even with the hard conditions and towing in outback stuff LR know full well where their vehicles go and they often end up in harsher places than whoop whoop.

Just my opinion, obviously.

Ozzie 119, I can see where you are coming from, but with this service schedule LR are confident there will be no problems during warranty. After that they have washed their hands of any responsibility for it.
Remember too that with this long time between fluid changes they are complying with their green (EPA) obligations.
In my industry oil generally lasts at least half life of the engine, but has regular testing for engine health.
I have, with my new D4, already planned for an oil and filter change at approximately 7500KM and then I will be happy for it to go to the standard 24000KM for it's next oil change (3.0) but will certainly do an intermediate change if I am towing or operating in harsh conditions.

The only real way to tell if the oil needs changing is to sample it & send it away for testing.

I did this with the D2 & at 20k it was fine.I did it a few times to be sure,as we encounted different driving conditions at different times.

I was using Castrol oils& we were also using Castrol oils at work,so i was lucky enough to have them done at no cost.as far as i know Castrol don't do this testing anymore,but there are independant labs that do.