My Service Indicator is now showing -4 past. It's only done 15.5k. It's a bit complicated but at about 11k it had both an A and B service to catch up, this was when I purchased the vehicle. There was a lot of back and forth with dealership at the time establishing possible voided man warranty due to previous owned not servicing at correct time interval etc etc but all that has passed with official confirmation letters blah blah (plenty of posts regarding on here at the time) The service indicator is obviously flashing at me based on time rather than mileage!

I do plan to get it serviced...making arrangements with a proper independent this week. The reality is that I've got man warranty until Dec 20th of this year to preserve and I just wondered in general how long a typical dealership allows you to over run the indicator before they start to cause you problems regarding claims?

Also what oils are people putting in ? Castrol Mag 5-30 fully synthetic seems to be popular....are any people extending to the edge variants?

How many miles since last service? And how long since?

They need servicing every 12 months or 15k miles which ever comes sooner

At -4 your looking to be 4 days away (or 4 days over) can remember which way round it is Former Mod/Member, with the most post & Chicken George Arch nemesis

npinks wrote:

How many miles since last service? And how long since?

They need servicing every 12 months or 15k miles which ever comes sooner

At -4 your looking to be 4 days away (or 4 days over) can remember which way round it is

The official LR FL2 service schedule is 15kmls or 24kkms, or, every 12 months from the last service whichever comes first!

The service indicator on the dash shows both time and/or mls/kms "to" or "over" the due service period. To distinguish between time or distance shown LR use the "clock" pictogram for time i.e. days to or past the date. No clock shown indicates that the numeric value is representing distance "to" or a minus "-" as the number of miles or kilometers by which the service is overdue. In the case of distance the display will also show the word "MILES" or "KMS".

That's very interesting. I collected 2nd hand Freelander 2 only last week from a (non Land Rover) dealer.
The service says -21 with a clock next to it ( I thought it was just a code for a mechanic ). It got serviced but obviously the car doesn't think it has been.

Guess where I will be going to tomorrow? Not happy

I have an XS registered 30/9/09, i don't remember seeing any messages on the info centre for an overdue service even though I didn't get it serviced until the 8/10/10. Was the message centre optional, only fitted to some models, anyone got any answers, thanks

Yeah erm......I'm under no illusions as to what the info means. Basically I have done 4.5k miles since it's last service which was about 12 months ago so the indicator is clearly based on time rather than milage, to which I've certainly gone 4 days over and counting. Hence the minus value. I was wondering about a typical dealers tolerance to going over your schedule...so to give an example, lets say I turn up with -45 on the service indicator to eventually get my service done at a landrover dealer. Could that dealer say "yes sir we will gladly service your vehicle for you, that said we have to inform you you have already violated certain elements of you warranty" An example I suppose could be a blown turbo, sighting contaminated oil due to a late service.

Is there a line drawn regarding how many days you can go out of schedule?

I'm sure I read the time allowances somewhere. I think it was in my LR Assured warranty booklet. It explains the leeway LR will give you. We Don't Care About Pot Holes !!

AiiEEX wrote:

That's very interesting. I collected 2nd hand Freelander 2 only last week from a (non Land Rover) dealer.
The service says -21 with a clock next to it ( I thought it was just a code for a mechanic ). It got serviced but obviously the car doesn't think it has been.

Guess where I will be going to tomorrow? Not happy

Am I missing some thing here If you are positive it has had a service it can be reset,

http://www.freel2.com/forum/topic4963.html

Or have I missed something

As long as the booked is stamped, would it matter if it didn't get reset and you just remember the next service date?

kezman50 wrote:

I was wondering about a typical dealers tolerance to going over your schedule...so to give an example, lets say I turn up with -45 on the service indicator to eventually get my service done at a landrover dealer. Could that dealer say "yes sir we will gladly service your vehicle for you, that said we have to inform you you have already violated certain elements of you warranty" An example I suppose could be a blown turbo, sighting contaminated oil due to a late service. Is there a line drawn regarding how many days you can go out of schedule?

AiiEEX wrote:

As long as the booked is stamped, would it matter if it didn't get reset and you just remember the next service date?

It's just irritating to have a handy gadget that is not working.  2007 Freelander 2 HSE TD4 Manual with Premium Pack & Moonroof.
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Mine is showing -53. I wonder if this has anything to do with the fact that when I bought it from Marshall's in March and pointed out that it hadn't been serviced, they said, oh yes it has, we must have forgotten to stamp the book, which they then did. As far as I'm concerned they're an official dealer and the book is now stamped, but I might feel inclined to do an oil change...