12 months or 24,000km on the 3L
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Sorry you’re right, I stand corrected.
Mine was serviced by the previous owner at annual intervals and typically between 18,000-33,000km. I didn’t know any better at the time, and it’s still going at over 280,000km, but I did have new bearings installed 10,000km ago. His driving was long country distances which would have been less arduous on it.
A mates Iveco is around 30 000K as well.
Renault tried to talk us into their Diesel vans once,the big selling point was 25 000K's between services.
Australia Post have just started using them they said.
Anyway,we stayed with the brand we had,no need to change if no issues,and they do what we want.
You can't compare a commercial engine from the likes of Mitsubishi to ours. We produce 600nm in a D4. A 3l Fuso puts out 370nm and in my experience holds at least 12l of engine oil. Half the power double the oil. And a bypass oil filter.
Chatting to an independent mechanic today and he reckons there doesn't seem to be any real connection between those that fail after having services at the LR intervals, or those like mine which gets 10K services. Plus even vehicles with the new ignieum (?) engines are susceptible to catastrophic failures as well.
My younger bro had a RRS Autobiography from new and thrashed that everywhere for around 4 years from memory. Nothing went wrong and he only had dealer servicing after going to a much praised (on this forum) indie in Sydney whose attitude left a lot to be desired apparently.
I have voiced my concerns to the Cook about the possible failures and she may just let me buy one more vehicle... :)
AlanH.
PS. Message to the boss and his "scruffy mechanics" in the front office of the indie.... be careful who you treat like an idiot. Could lose a lot of business with your responses and attitudes.
T'other day I read on a English Disco facebook site that one contributor reckoned it depended on which production line the engine was assembled.
One line having a bad reputation for the failures whilst the other had no failures.
I asked him for more information but so far no response.
Sounds a bit over the top but stranger things have happened.....