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Terranger:
a few weeks ago, I had to service my '57 Defender, and had been told I had to do this at the dealership, otherwise i'd void the 3 year warranty.
Although i'd booked it in for the 23rd December, my engine management light came on the dash, while out for a drive.

I pulled in and phoned Land Rover Assist, who, after plotting my position where I was, she offered me a callback with a technician, who told me that if there was no reduction in performance, carry on. No probs there.
The young lady called back and said recovery would be in 2 hours time. I retold the technician's conversation, and was advised to talk to the dealers.
I did this, and brought forward the servicing date and to get the EGM problem sorted, and they arranged a courtesy car. Following Monday, all was sorted.
The following day, the dealers phoned me to say my Defender was ready, and I asked the cost, I had to prop myself on the courtesy car when they annonced;

£535, plus change.

after I recovered, I said I couldn't afford that, so they phoned back, with a final quote of £491, plus change.
Has anyone paid as much for a service?

burgerman:
Got quoted nearly £800 for the big service on our 51 plate 90  :shock:

At this point we stopped using main stealers  :lol:


  I think im right in saying you can get ya landy serviced elsewhere if they used equivalent spec parts,

I use genuine parts and do it me self these days, the last big service including changing ALL fluids and a set of rear pads, and replacing 4 u/joints  it cost me just over £200 all in,

Suvvey:
Obviously having an older defender I can service my own but at work the boss still insists on taking the 2 Td5's to our local non dealer LR specialist. Now seeing as we are going through a bit of a tight time at work with the old recession and jobs drying up as a result I can't see how he can justify paying the £400-£600 it seems to cost each time just for a bloody oil and filters change. Especially when we have our own ramp, 2 of our guys used to be grease monkeys for many years before moving to us and obviously I service my own :doh: And there have been times when we have to find ourselves jobs to keep ourselves busy (and employed :shock:)
We also have 300tdi that never seems to get serviced :doh:
Oh and guess what the first thing I have to do is when I go back to work in the new year? Yup, take my Td5 in for it's service :roll: Drop it off on the Monday, pick it up on the Tuesday which means I have to spend those two days kicking around the yard looking busy again :-k

lambert:
my last service stood me at 40 quid and i thought that was dear. last time a dealer touched one of my cars it came back worse than it went in so i invited trading standards to have a look and the 600 quid repair bill went away.

crazymac:
Just remember that you DO NOT have to have it serviced at a main stealers to maintain the warranty.

As long as genuine parts are used they can't quibble. There is talk of "eqiviliant" parts but who decides what is "equivilant"?

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