80,000km Service for a Landcruiser

Just a question why not service the NA yourself its not hard, or at least change your oils filters and coolant yourself. Grease all the nipples etc, this will take the cost down a little for the next service. The 4.2 is simple as, but shop around for a second opinion.

I do the 5000km services myself - as you say, it's just filters, oil and a bit of grease. Then just a bit of a poke around, see whats what.

But we have this stupid warranty thing with toyota that we have to get it serviced with them to keep. I was just seeing if the price was about right or not.

Cheers,

Chump

Indeed Turbo - not eveyone can, or wants to - I do nearly all of my own servicing and gets the hard stuff done, as it arises - fully understand though, that car fiddling is not for everyone - but hell - they pay up, as a result.

Sorry hit the send button before i finished, if your out of warranty, believe me if you go to sell it no one cares where it's been serviced just as long as it has been. Regards Vitara

We don't do many km's - this is an 8 year old truck now, and just had it's 70,000km service.

They rekoned 24 months was a good time period to change liquids in our circumstance.

Very true Rick

But I think you overlooked one very pertinent point. Servicing/warranty claims is a 2 way street.

I have no doubt the stealer would be more inclined to go in to bat on your behalf with warranty issues if you had them regularly service your vehicle.

Especially with situations where the manufacturer was not inclined to readily accept there is a warranty issue. This includes good will issues where the vehicle may be just out of warranty.

Now, when the vehicle is well out of warranty, it's a totally different kettle of fish.

And let's not forget the value of a log book filled out by a reputable service centre, regardless of whether it's a stealer or not .... as against a log book filled out by the owner for example. I know which I would place a greater value upon.

Cheers

Fox,just brought a 105 series cruiser which has 1 year factory and we're extending it another 3 years.Asked about servecing it and was told that it had to be done by an ABN registered mechanic,no backyarders.Now im not a ABN registered mechanic but know enough to do everything that comes up,so your saying that I can do it ?regardless what they say

What you say is true fox in a standard factory warranty but on a 98 model this warranty would be expired a long time ago.
If this vehicle is under a dealer warranty it would be of an extended warranty and only valid if serviced by the dealer.
You don't have to have it serviced by a dealer but you would void any extended warranties offered by the dealer but your standard factory warranty will still be OK.
On this particular vehicle there would be no factory warranty.
Try here for an extract from the ACCC
New Car Warranty Servicing

Hi Nick,
Yes OK on the 1 year factory warranty however, you will find that the extended warranty is a totally different product and will be underwritten by someone like an insurance company, even though it's marketed as a factory extension. If the terms and conditions of thae extended warranty require an ABN reg'd mechanic, then you would be advised to follow those guide lines.

Of course the mechanic doesn't necessarily have to be a franchised motor dealer and again shop around the reputable repairers.

Rosco above has a valid point with the dealer going in to bat for a warranty claim that could be in a "Grey" area of out of warranty.

However, at the end of the day, no matter how well the dealer bats for you, the end decision rests with the Warranty Service Manager employed by the manufacturer.

I still don't recommend doing your own servicing unless you have the training as a qualified mechanic and have the certificates to back that up.

We're driving a new LC100 V8 Auto now and our usual mechanical workshop do all our servicing and the Toyota dealer does all our warranty work. (Oil breather on rear diff).

However our previous LC100 was well out of warranty with 150K on the clock and we had to replace the RHR exterior door handle. It just broke off in my wife's hand as she went to open the door.

Instead of troubling the Toyota dealer, she rang Toyota Queensland and eventually spoke to the right guy and told him how this little used handle had broken off ( the front doors get far more use) and it cost us $140.00 for a genuine replacement.

The guy at Toyota asked her to fax a letter and a copy of the invoice. Whereupon they rang us and asked us for our bank account details and deposited the funds directly to our account.

That worked...we bought another Cruiser....and a new Kimberley Kamper Limited Edition and we're having 6 weeks in the centre next May/June and 4 weeks in the Gulf/N.T in August and ....can't wait to get back out there.......

Keep well all... and best wishes for the festive season.....might become a full member of Explor OZ too...
Happy Camping
Rick & Julie

funny you mention wiper blades when i bring a vehicle in to service on the road test i test the washes/wipers.
as a rule with most modern vehicles if you give the washs a squirt the wipers come on automatically for a few wipes.
if the water on the screen hasnt come of ill change the blades.
now we charge around $3 per blade and you would be surprised how many people whinge about the blades being replaced.
dosnt matter that we charged them nearly $50 for engine oil but $6 for wiper blades really seems to bleep people off.
cheers

I wasn't whinging about the $400 service - I was just asking about the next one, the $1000+ one.

$400 is not too bad, considering the low km's we do, and the services are roughly every 9 months or so.

You did the right thing with the warrenty
We were offered one recently when we we were looking around for our Cruiser,Ilaughed
They rarely lose on those deals

Cheers