Gearboxes need servicing
Get the gearbox serviced. I asked Land Rover dealer for a gearbox oil change, they quoted $3,400. They said the oil is costly.
If your in Melbourne take it to A&B Automotive Remanufacturing, 12-14 Cahill St South Dandenong, 3175, tel. 97683755. They have factory ZF gearbox equipment made by ZF for their gearbox manufacturing / rebuilding and very few organisations have such gear in Australia. I did a tour of their place with the LR Club. Those guys know everything about ZF transmission issues. There is an equivalent organisation in Sydney I think.
Replacements are $8K I’ve heard. My service cost $770.00 although they knew I was a member of the Land Rover club. The transmission fluid costs over $100 retail per litre but they get it much cheaper.
They also do a diagnostic of the gearbox which includes interrogating various computer memories of what is going on. Tell them about your issues.
One good thing about Toyota is they change the oils a lot, hence their gear lasts. You should change all the diff oils, and also the gearbox. The gearbox oil (transmission fluid) will go to custard if you don't change the oil. It needs to be done by 80k and earlier if towed. Land Rover specify doing it at 210,000km, when the gearbox is out of warranty. By then its likely the gearbox will be damaged when a change would have fixed it. But Land Rover kid people about the maintenance cost. The job of some cost accountant I guess. A friend has a few Porsches and even they are not changing the fluids much on his Macan. Maybe i misspelled that ... so he gets it done more frequently. He has did some club racing for a few years in his 911 which he bought and hotted up. He's now brought it back to a factory interior because it went up in price a whole lot ... racings gone now ... !!!!
I have had lots of Toyotas and drove my bought new `1997 prado today. I still like that a lot - its nice and light. I have changed the fluids in that thing though, and they are under less stress because its much lighter than a Disco. I had a Kakado 150 series and it was horrible to drive. It had some issues too. My Disco has so far been fine except for a front suspension issue which I was not aware of fixed under warranty, a broken rear seat unlocking mechanism which LR refused to fix under extended warranty, a worn door rubber seal which LR also refused to fix under warranty. I need to import driver side rubber door seals from the UK as the price of them here is silly.
About the wheel nuts - LR say that they need to be torque wrenched to prevent the discs from going out of round .... a loose nut would not be someone who knows recent Discos. I have a never used torque wrenched for that purpose though I bought one for doing that!!! I need to buy some rotors from the UK too I guess ... maybe some better ones??? Whoops wandering off topic ...
Oh and take it to an LR specialist repair place and get them to check it out. They exist and in Melbourne several just do Land Rovers They can service it for you and they'll identify any issues that you can get fixed under your warranty.
Good luck and keep us informed.
Doug
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