With gritted teeth I went into my local LR dealership and asked for a quote on a 150K service - needless to say I had a lie down in a darkened room to recover from the shock it ran into four figures!

Considering my options I downloaded the Maintenance check sheet and decided to do as much of the service as I was comfortable with and ticked off as many of the items as possible - I am fine doing brakes, filters, top ups and checks. After doing a complete brake disc & pads replacement (including handbrake shoes), changing all filters and generally doing most of a 'normal' service it came to the tricky stuff - cambelt, auxiliary belt, diff oil change, auto box oil change etc etc. This is when I went back to LR for some expert help and entrusted the work to someone who has the right tools and experience for the job.

The whole experience was surprisingly pleasant and after dropping off my GS auto I was given a MY11 GS auto courtesy car - even in the same colour! I must say that having driven the year old car (only 3K on the clock) around for a day I was surprised to find that there wasn't really that much difference between the two! Apart from feeling a little bit 'tighter' in the steering & suspension my old 150K Landy actually felt smoother in some respects, especially the auto box. I also noticed that the fuel consumption was identical too.

Returning the next day to collect my car, I was presented with a (not so hefty) £500 bill which basically completed the 150K service and the service dept had stamped my service book to reflect this. During the course of their usual 'health check' the mechanic said that he was surprised to find that no extra maintenance was required - he couldn't find anything else to fix!

So those of you with high mileage FL2s can rest assured that they are pretty resilient when used sensibly and apart from basic servicing, just require a little bit of common sense to keep going and wont cost an arm and three legs when it comes to servicing. Cheers,
Raz
FL1 TD4 GS Auto 2001 Silver
FL2 TD4 Auto 2007 Black
FL2 XS SD4 Auto 2012 Fuji White

Did you (or previous owner) changed the autobox oil before?
Or it's the first change of autobox oil?
If it's a first, then indeed, the oil seems to hold for 150k miles !!!!

As far as I am aware, the previous owner had not changed the auto oil and according to the Maintenance Check Sheet it doesn't require changing until the 150K service. I was also surprised to hear that the Power Transfer oil is NEVER changed (just checked) despite being detailed in the check sheet - apparently this is an error. Cheers,
Raz
FL1 TD4 GS Auto 2001 Silver
FL2 TD4 Auto 2007 Black
FL2 XS SD4 Auto 2012 Fuji White

It's all reduced to the ability of the oil to withstand the working condition and not deteriorate during time.
The places where there are no (big) temperature variations and aren't by-product particles produced, there isn't a real need of oil change as long as the oil is keeping its properties during time.
And this can be achieved with a good and proper high tech synthetic oil.
Not the case of an inside of an engine and inside an autobox.