DiscoZack wrote:

What is the consensus of opinion as to when you should have a gearbox flush?

I've just had my 9th annual service (an A service), but she's only done 79k miles. According to LR maintenance schedule it should be the 10th anniversary or 150k miles (which will be a B service)

Opinions from those in the know please

Just in case it matters I'm 2.7 tdv6.

i will be coming to the cambridge area soon

lrserviceandrepair wrote:

Thanks for the positive feed back from the customers. All customers now will be asked to watch the level check procedure and look at live data on Autologic Diagnostics 30-50 degrees as stated on Topix.
The thing is, i guarantee every time the level is checked afterwords you will have a slight level indifference of be it 10-100 mls due to temperature change. Even within Land Rover level check specification 30-50 degrees. The Autobox has a dry fill capacity of 9500mls of ZF6HP SPEC OIL. All this scare mongering is not required and I would be quite happy to have a chat with anyone about the work that is carried out as opposed to have my business bad mouthed on a public forum.

I started my business from a £2000 loan off my parents which I paid back and me and my father built my first workshop from the ground up on an evening and weekends whilst still working full time. I moved to a larger workshop on my own 4 years ago and I now have 3 ex-dealer technicians and 2 full time parts staff and myself. None of this has come from ripping people off, just hard work and honesty.
Most days you would think we were a dealer looking in our car park at cars waiting to be repaired and serviced. We are just a family run independent specialist. I have invested massively into the business from having nothing.

I don't post on here as often as I should and there is one simple reason for this, i am just too busy. So I miss a lot of posts about my business.

Please call bookings.

Kind Regards Richard

lrserviceandrepair wrote:

All customers now will be asked to watch the level check procedure and look at live data on Autologic Diagnostics 30-50 degrees as stated on Topix.
The thing is, i guarantee every time the level is checked afterwords you will have a slight level indifference of be it 10-100 mls due to temperature change. Even within Land Rover level check specification 30-50 degrees. The Autobox has a dry fill capacity of 9500mls of ZF6HP SPEC OIL.

Kind Regards Richard

lynalldiscovery wrote:

Good to see a proper sensible response.

Performing the level check at the correct temp is a sensible response indeed.

By my maths filling at 80 deg C would leave you under-filled by 270ml when compared to 40 deg C; this would be well outside ZF's 130ml tolerance band. Doing it by-the-book seems very wise.

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