Glynparry25 wrote:

I have gone to LR for all my servicing..... and it has cost me the best part of £500 for the first and second service. If nothing broke on my Defender then I could say that was £500 wasted, but at the start of this week the differential lock selector decided to try and escape through the side housing of the transfer box- because I had 2 stamps in my service book the kind Cypriot on the end of the phone said "No problem Mr Glyn, because you have stamps we have new box on way".....if I didn't have those stamps I would be looking at a bill of over £3,000 to have the work done, or about £1000 for parts and doing it myself.

Try this on for size:

if you change your filter twice a year

Genuine @£12 a pop..... that is £72 over a 3 year period
Alternative @£7 a pop..... that is £42 over a 3 year period

That means you save £30 over 3 years...£10 a year, or 83p a month.....

Glyn

Supposing you wanted to do some work on your Defender, would you get to use all the facilities your employer has put in place for their own vehicles? Can just imagine it."Hey, hurry up and shift that submarine, I want to do some work on the Land Rover"  1982 88" 2.25 diesel
1992 110 200tdi csw -Zikali
2008 110 2.4 tdci csw-Zulu
2011 110 2.4 tdci csw-Masai

spudfan wrote:

Surely the whole point of Coopers selling you an oil filter is that it will do the same job as the badged origional?

spudfan wrote:

Supposing you wanted to do some work on your Defender, would you get to use all the facilities your employer has put in place for their own vehicles? Can just imagine it."Hey, hurry up and shift that submarine, I want to do some work on the Land Rover"

I have on many occasions worked on my own vehicles using work facilities (no problem as long as I don't use oil/ lubes/ parts etc)- I will have to see if I have a picture of it next to an armored vehicle. I am always careful to make sure Land Rover don't know though....Knowing my luck the day I do something that they can see the engine would drop the bottom end out and Land Rover would just mug me off.

Glyn

Glynparry25 wrote:

spudfan wrote:

Supposing you wanted to do some work on your Defender, would you get to use all the facilities your employer has put in place for their own vehicles? Can just imagine it."Hey, hurry up and shift that submarine, I want to do some work on the Land Rover"

I have on many occasions worked on my own vehicles using work facilities (no problem as long as I don't use oil/ lubes/ parts etc)- I will have to see if I have a picture of it next to an armored vehicle. I am always careful to make sure Land Rover don't know though....Knowing my luck the day I do something that they can see the engine would drop the bottom end out and Land Rover would just mug me off.

Glyn

Having seen your photographs Glyn,especially the one with the moustache, it would be a brave man that would try to mug you off! That is why whenever you disappear off site for a while you get so many people asking where you are, we are all scared s****less.  1982 88" 2.25 diesel
1992 110 200tdi csw -Zikali
2008 110 2.4 tdci csw-Zulu
2011 110 2.4 tdci csw-Masai

wslr wrote:

From experience, a Land Rover dealership (our local one anyway) will use every excuse in the book to avoid a warranty claim. No thought behind it. No compromise. No customer service or loyalty towards their customers. They are impossible to deal with. In fact I hate going anywhere near the workshop.

That's interesting. I guess the local LR dealer you refer to is part of the Helston group and I bet I can guess which one

My local dealer, also part of the Helston group, is the exact opposite. They have never tried to get out of any warranty claim and, if there have been any issues, it is normally LR themselves that have caused the problem not the dealer. I might have to haggle with them at times but that is life.

Bob

d j hutton wrote:

Need to do a search on here now for 'running in' instructions, or is that a a thing of the past now?

DJ