D3 transmission oil change Interval and results

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Originally Posted by Redback

Just had our 84,000k service done, all fluids and filters, brake rotors and pads, that included the Gearbox flush and pan, transfer case, front and rear diffs, the rear diff had the dirtiest oil, it's an E-Diff and we have used it quite a lot offroad where it was needed;)

Complete service including parts and labour $1400

Baz.

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That sounds pretty reasonable; was that at an independent or a dealer?

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Originally Posted by Redback

Just had our 84,000k service done, all fluids and filters, brake rotors and pads, that included the Gearbox flush and pan, transfer case, front and rear diffs, the rear diff had the dirtiest oil, it's an E-Diff and we have used it quite a lot offroad where it was needed;)

Complete service including parts and labour $1400

Baz.

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That's good value!
Just picked mine up (well SWMBO did, I'm recovering from a knee op!)
Trans flush, oil was pretty bad apparently, full service, check & adjust park brake, replace pollen filter etc. 153,000km.
Steel pan was done by a previous owner. All up $1,150. Thank you Midas :)

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Originally Posted by Redback

that included the Gearbox flush and pan,
Baz.

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Baz was that a mega flush or just replacing the gearbox oil dropped doing the pan change.

Thanks

Garry

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Originally Posted by phl

That sounds pretty reasonable; was that at an independent or a dealer?

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Yes independent, Roving Mechanical

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Originally Posted by Rohan

That's good value!
Just picked mine up (well SWMBO did, I'm recovering from a knee op!)
Trans flush, oil was pretty bad apparently, full service, check & adjust park brake, replace pollen filter etc. 153,000km.
Steel pan was done by a previous owner. All up $1,150. Thank you Midas :)

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That's a coincidence I'm recovering front a back injury, the missus dropped the car off and picked it up.

We had already had the Park brake and pollen filter done.

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Originally Posted by garrycol

Baz was that a mega flush or just replacing the gearbox oil dropped doing the pan change.

Thanks

Garry

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Yes mate, well that's what we asked for, as per ZF instructions.

Baz.

Hi Brett,
Oil testing in my opinion is more worth while if you are going to continue to test and not do just one snapshot. Trending the data gives more value. I used to do my engine oil on my D3 and based on the trended data I was able to work out that it was more valuable to change the oil filter every 5k and change the engine oil every 10k, this gave the best results for oil cleanliness and oil quality without being wasteful.
And yes there was a difference albeit marginal using a genuine LR filter and an after market filter.

Our D3 is at 194000 and from what I can tell the gbox oil had not been done yet...
I've had one quote of $800 including parts and labour so far.

Need to get it done.

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Originally Posted by sinistr

Our D3 is at 194000 and from what I can tell the gbox oil had not been done yet...
I've had one quote of $800 including parts and labour so far.

Need to get it done.

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Any weird going-on's with gear changes and shudder and the like?

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Originally Posted by rb30gtr

Any weird going-on's with gear changes and shudder and the like?

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I can say there is an occasional shudder on fast acceleration and if going up a steep hill but other than that no issues I can really feel, changes gears smoothly - goes well.

Today I did some preliminary investigations for the task of replacing the pan and using a 12V pump to suck out retained oil. I found the 3.0's oil cooler under the front of the engine with the quick disconnect fluid lines very accessible. However my 8mm hex Allen key is in danger of snapping due to the fill plug being very tight. An 8mm hex socket has been added to the shopping list.