Thread: Service more than 12 months - how bad?

My LR dealer prints out the online service record at every service and attaches it to the back of my invoice.
C

You can go to TOPIX and print it out unless they've stopped that. Did it a while back.

Martin

Spot on Land Rover(R) Online Service History - Land Rover(R) Australia

Originally Posted by letherm

You can go to TOPIX and print it out unless they've stopped that. Did it a while back.

Martin

Hmm - I just downloaded the service history for my car and all the 'in-between' ~6 monthly services are missing. These include a partial fluid flush of the transmission, tx and diff fluid changes etc. - things which, if I did decide to sell it, I would want a prospective buyer to know about.

I have no idea why they're missing but I find it pretty annoying, especially given there is no other (written) record of the services. I can only assume that the dealer has elected not to record these... not sure.

I actually keep all the records for myself (as somewhat ironically, even though I'm in IT, I don't trust these systems including the users to keep records important to me) so I fired the lot over to them with a please explain.

We'll see what they come up with.

David

Originally Posted by DiscoMick

Synthetic oils have certainly made a lot of difference to service times, particularly for engine oil. It seems to vary a lot between companies too. For example, our Defender is on 20,000 kms according to LR, but our Mazda is on 10,000 kms or six months, according to Mazda. I tend to over-service, on the theory oils are cheap insurance for a longer life.

Its not just synthetics alone, in fact most good quality mineral oils now could likely handle the extended intervals (I wont even get into the fact than many "synthetics" may not be as synthetic as consumers think). One of the single biggest improvements in diesel engines was going from indirect injection to direct injection, the modern common rails just do not soot up the oil anywhere near what they used to. IMHO soot was the biggest limiting factor in an oil change interval which is no longer the case.

I move about the country and use a range of service options.
Basic service including trans, diff, transfer case, I do myself.
Those services, and all other work, I simply record manually in the service book.
The only person who needs to know if my vehicle is serviced, and when what is due next, is me.

Originally Posted by l00kin4

Hmm - I just downloaded the service history for my car and all the 'in-between' ~6 monthly services are missing. These include a partial fluid flush of the transmission, tx and diff fluid changes etc. - things which, if I did decide to sell it, I would want a prospective buyer to know about.

I have no idea why they're missing but I find it pretty annoying, especially given there is no other (written) record of the services. I can only assume that the dealer has elected not to record these... not sure.

I actually keep all the records for myself (as somewhat ironically, even though I'm in IT, I don't trust these systems including the users to keep records important to me) so I fired the lot over to them with a please explain.

We'll see what they come up with.

David

My LR dealer told me that they only put in scheduled services. I kept the paperwork for my records. Shows you that LR don't think you need a mid schedule service.

Martin

Originally Posted by letherm

My LR dealer told me that they only put in scheduled services. I kept the paperwork for my records. Shows you that LR don't think you need a mid schedule service.

Martin

Just means your dealer is lazy!