Thread: Good LR D3 mechanic in North/West Melbourne?

Les Richmond in Thomastown perhaps?

See the sticky thread in the Technical Chatter section Help for Land Rover Owners when Travelling in Australia

I use Les Richmond in Woods St Thomastown. Found them to be knowlegable with D3. They specialise in Land Rover,Range Rover and they actually have mechanics that work on your car and speak to you. They do all mechanical repairs but I was surprised they had not heard of the Traxide dual battery systems. They have done a new transmission, compressor, timing belts, modified tail gate release and front bushes for me as well as all my services (10000) intervals. Now up to 160000. What a vehicle!
Cheers
John

I just had my 168,000 km service done! Not alot of good news!
Total cost for all the work needed (including service) to be done is upwards of $7k! Not a happy camper at this stage!

$7k!!! What needed doing?
That's more than my D1 cost to buy!

168k service $1700
Brake pads and disc's $720 per axle
Auto service $1000
Replace steering rack $1700
Replace EPB $2200
Also Tie Rod End Ball joints

Is this normal? Vehicle does very little off road and is serviced as per schedule. I was previously told after the last service the EPB would be $1400 to replace but there seems to have been a price hike!

PS. I only had the service and the brakes done! Exploring my options with the rest!

Originally Posted by flyinglandrover

168k service $1700
Brake pads and disc's $720 per axle
Auto service $1000
Replace steering rack $1700
Replace EPB $2200
Also Tie Rod End Ball joints

Is this normal? Vehicle does very little off road and is serviced as per schedule. I was previously told after the last service the EPB would be $1400 to replace but there seems to have been a price hike!

EPB unit is ~600AUD from Paddocks:

LR019223 | Module - Electric Parking Brak

Question is, is there $1600 worth of labour to change it over? I don't think so.