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     carl J. Drumgoole (Carl_kps) Member Username: Carl_kps Post Number: 99 Registered: 02-2003 |
Is there any place in the Washington DC area where I can get my 90 K service work done on my DISCO 2 for less than $1100. If not how long could I go with out this service with out damaging my Rover. What are the most important parts of the service? Are there any parts of the service I can skip? I was thinking of just getting my fluids flushed. The reason why I ask this is that money is going to be a little tight for a couple of months. (I just bough a house in January and owe a quite a bit in taxes. Its horrible being single with 0 deductions. I should have bought the house two weeks earlier. Also, anyone know a good CPA?) (Just being funny but if you know one in DC let me know.) | ||
| carl J. Drumgoole (Carl_kps) Member Username: Carl_kps Post Number: 100 Registered: 02-2003 |
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| Kristopher March (Apexdisco) Senior Member Username: Apexdisco Post Number: 301 Registered: 02-2002 |
Last I checked, a 90k service for the Disco I isn't too bad. Just certain checks and normal fluid checks, fill, or replace. I'm not sure about the D2. Just keep up with the oil changes at the very least. You could consider switching to synthetic engine oil at 90k also. Some things you can do on your own: check brake pads check tire pressure/tire wear check fluids (coolant, transmission, engine oil, brake, power steering) check for cracks/leaks in the coolant hoses It won't hurt to do this in stages, especially if you are broke. Hope it helps. | ||
| Robbie Donaldson (Robbie) Senior Member Username: Robbie Post Number: 533 Registered: 02-2002 |
hey Carl, if you are looking for a shop, check out Treasured Motor Cars in Reiserstown, MD - Trevor Griffiths place. He posts on here quite a bit and has been helpful over the boards a number of times: http://www.treasuredmotorcars.com/ | ||
| carl J. Drumgoole (Carl_kps) Member Username: Carl_kps Post Number: 101 Registered: 02-2003 |
I am not broke, I am just on a budget until after April and I don't feel like paying the $1100 to Land Rover at this moment. I have 0 debts (except house) and want to keep everything that way. (Want to get my saving account back up before I do this service. Next year is going to be a big tax return.) Can I go about 5 or 6 thousand miles before I do the 90K mile service. My hoses, Brake pads, and tires are all good or have been changed in the past month. Guess all that I have to do are the fluid flushes. | ||
| Melissa L Nance (Roverchic) New Member Username: Roverchic Post Number: 1 Registered: 02-2004 |
I hear that !! I live in OKC and drove all the way to Austin, Texas to have my service done (60K) for free by a master tech..It came with a price though. I had to spend the weekend with a not so friendly guy.. But hey he paid the 1000.00 to have the service done.. Carl, you have to do what you have to do.. It can wait. Look over your manual and go over the basics. It consists mainly of chaging the fluids.. IE the front diff and the back diff.. Trans Flush.. ect | ||
| Glenn Guinto (Glenn) Senior Member Username: Glenn Post Number: 828 Registered: 02-2002 |
Damn!  | ||
| Melissa L Nance (Roverchic) New Member Username: Roverchic Post Number: 3 Registered: 02-2004 |
""QUID PRO QUO"" ;) | ||
| john kazeva (Jkazeva) New Member Username: Jkazeva Post Number: 22 Registered: 02-2004 |
ERRATA: Correct above post, third line: WAS: ProLogic IS: AutoLogic | ||
| john kazeva (Jkazeva) New Member Username: Jkazeva Post Number: 23 Registered: 02-2004 |
Posted on Friday, February 20, 2004 - 12:42 am: I use Arlington Motors Cars (ASE-certified/LogicPro capable) 1712 Wilson blvd, ("up the hill" in Rosslyn, VA next door to the Red, Hot -n- Blue). 703-276-8022 Parker is their manager, Alberto and Hans are the guys to have do the work; avoid Stan, he's got attitude. My Rangie has had $6k of great work done there in the past year. Honest shop, they don't use spendy dealer parts unless necessary, perform appropriate level of repair to salvage/maximize parts (like my exhaust being welded to allow me to get another six months or so out of it). My wife's xmas gift of an 01 Disco SE (31k miles) hasn't had to visit yet. Disco still under factory warranty so with intrepidation, I believe I have to bite the bullet and take her to the dealer for scheduled maintenance until 50k miles. I bought the Disco used from carmax/laurel and bought their $1999.00 5year/60k mile extended warranty that in big print says only $50.00 if one brings vehicle to carmax or $75 and one can take vehicle to any ASE-certified shop. However, fine print says doesn't cover basic maintenance, i believe, just the big ticket item failures that (hopefully) rarely happen. I just visited LR Rockville (the original dealer) to get the Disco's previous service records which were provided, but only after some gentle persuasion. I have a friend who is friend's with one of the mechanics there so I am going to get chummy to try and put a face to my vehicle so hopefully that will help. (fortunately, the NASA/Space Shuttle decals I get with every mission I help fly always seem to grease the skids in such situations, from rental car upgrades to crane ops on the floor in the OPF: http://mysite.verizon.net/vze1yoh1/space/Columbia-OPFbay1.jpg I am going to call LRNA to see if I have to go the original dealer or if all dealers are accessible for the routine maintenance. When I asked Rockville for Rangie's records via VIN, of course their repsonse was, "wasn't serviced here, so no records on file." [LRNA can pull them up but won't go into any detail about them with me.] Rangie came from LR/Tysons (which i think was HBL then) who I understand has a reasonable service department record. LR / Alexandria and Rockville are total unknowns to me, from a reputation standpoint. speaking of taxes, i tried a CPA in DC but found her not to savvy to finding any more write-offs than i found. Rather than spend that (deductible) $200.00, get turbotax(TT) ($40.00 deuctible with one free state tax package thrown in) or use it online instead. Coupled with the comprehensive TT walk thru, i find a good read-thru of the annual 2003 IRS Publication 17, available here on the IRS Forms/Pubs page: http://www.irs.gov/formspubs/index.html is ALWAYS worth the very dry reading, especially the Itemized deductions. If you prefer, here's the raw tax code: http://uscode.house.gov/title_26.htm | ||
| carl J. Drumgoole (Carl_kps) Member Username: Carl_kps Post Number: 102 Registered: 02-2003 |
Dear John, Thanks for the info. I will have to check them out. I know exactly where that is at because I have a good friend in who live in that area. Can they do the fluid flushes? Also, I use Land Rover Rockville and they should have all of the repair records, at least if done by Land Rover. (Techs would ask me about work done at different dealership that showed up on my record.) Speaking of taxes, I have been using Turbo tax and I am just going to bit the bullet and pay what I owe. The thing that got me is that I had a good deal of mutual funds (designated for just a house) I had from my days of going to sea. I withdrew those accounts and used the money for a nice down payment on a house in Leesburg in mid January, and to pay off my Rover. I did not realize I made that much profit on my mutual funds. (I will make the money back next year in tax breaks but this year I have to write an 8K check to the tax man.) | ||
| carl J. Drumgoole (Carl_kps) Member Username: Carl_kps Post Number: 103 Registered: 02-2003 |
Can any ASE-certified shop do the required flushes on Rovers? The reason I ask is that there have been times where I have asked shops for prices on Rover work and they told me that they don't service Rovers. I have also heard the horror stories of techs at places like Jiffy Lube stripping bolts, using wrong fluids and stuff like that. | ||
| john kazeva (Jkazeva) New Member Username: Jkazeva Post Number: 24 Registered: 02-2004 |
Carl, thx for the info re:dealers and service records. I imagine the LR database is as clunky as any other in retreiving data so perhaps that's why info (supposedly) didn't come up on my Rangie. Rangie was a (very sweet) hand-me-down from my mom-in-law to my wife and then to me after I bought my wife her Disco. My mom-in-law is a doctor so she was able to afford dealership maintenance exclusively while she owned Rangie from 1991 thru 1999. Being an aerospace systems engineer (mechanical engring degree), I do or have any and all work done to ensure all systems/engineering features are functional on my vehicles, so that's why my maintenance records are, well, perhaps excessive. Arlington Motor Cars have done ALL types of work on Rangie including fluid flushes as shown on a previous post of mine summarizing my service history: ../7/43212.html"http://www.pe.net/~rksnow/vacountybailey" target="_blank">http://www.pe.net/~rksnow/vacountybailey'scrossroads.htm link needs that ' to avoid the dreaded 404 error; close-by is the luna park grille: http://www.lunaparkgrille.com/luna/ that has an elephant in their logo because of the rumored elephant stampede that occured in this area sometime in NoVA history), and 2) a heated front windscreen (Windshield) replacement last month. I empathize about that big tax hit. Can you take out a home equity loan for the tax bill to at least be able to write off the interest paid if you are doing the tax payment to IRS in a lump sum? i realize the IRS does allow installment payments but I am not sure if interest they charge on such installment payments is deductible (sorta doubtful, even with them being the kinder/gentler agency they claim they are). | ||
| carl J. Drumgoole (Carl_kps) Member Username: Carl_kps Post Number: 104 Registered: 02-2003 |
John, That awsome you got the Rangie. Sounds like a great car. I am just going to pay the lump sum. It won't be that bad. I just hate to have to pay the 8k to the IRA. I will just have to save more to get my bank account back up. | ||
| Big Ed (Sandman) New Member Username: Sandman Post Number: 31 Registered: 02-2004 |
Taxes...you guys still pay taxes? I'm going on 6 years tax free my friend! JUST SAY NO! But I still file every year! :-) I just want to know what RoverChic did over the weekend to get the "not so friendly guy" to pay for the $1000 service. :quote: I had to spend the weekend with a not so friendly guy.. But hey he paid the 1000.00 to have the service done.. :unquote: SandMan | ||
| Melissa Nance (Roverchic) New Member Username: Roverchic Post Number: 15 Registered: 02-2004 |
SandMan: I will let you speculate ..Hey I had to pay for the valve job, he covered the rest. | ||
| Bruno Tome (Bruno_tome) Member Username: Bruno_tome Post Number: 61 Registered: 01-2004 |
Sandman, Got any good trails in Dubai? I'll be there next week... BT. | ||
| Big Ed (Sandman) New Member Username: Sandman Post Number: 32 Registered: 02-2004 |
RoverChic...Trust me, I've already speculated and it did involve a valve job. I wonder if I can get a not so nice girl to pay for my next service? Bruno...we have a guidebook here called "Dubai Offroad". It contains color Sat maps, GPS co-ords, and text discriptions of some really great trails. So YES, there are good trails here! The book is updated yearly so the info never gets obsolete. A nice day trip is through the desert, over the mountain range to Oman, then back through the mountains, run the river gorge, across the dunes back to Dubai. You can do it in 10 hours. SandMan 050-553-6750 P.S. You got a ride while here? | ||
| Bruno Tome (Bruno_tome) Member Username: Bruno_tome Post Number: 62 Registered: 01-2004 |
Sandman, Haven't had any success renting a Rover, everyone I've contacted has a strict "NO OFFROAD or DESERT driving" clause that must be signed prior to renting. I have secured a Land Cruiser however, so a bit of 'Competitive evaluation' will be in order... Where can I source "Dubai Offroad" ? Can you provide more specific info on the day trip suggestion ? Tks, BT. metalmartusa@ameritech.net | ||
| Big Ed (Sandman) New Member Username: Sandman Post Number: 37 Registered: 02-2004 |
Bruno, You can get the D.O.R. book everywhere. Groceries, gas stations, etc. I got mine at Ace Hardware. Real nice guide. Bring your Garmin (or other GPS). I'll look through mine and get you the specifics if you want. The whole trip is a combination of 2-3 trips in the book. Dubai to Oman, Wadi B to Sharja, back to Dubai. When are you arriving? We can go sink the Toy SandLoser somewhere. SandMan | ||
| Bruno Tome (Bruno_tome) Member Username: Bruno_tome Post Number: 64 Registered: 01-2004 |
Sandman, Thanks for the information, Arriving Sat. 28th, I will try to contact you, as time permits. I have a planned safari through the mountains complete with 'Sand Skiing' - should be interesting ! BT. | ||
| Big Ed (Sandman) Member Username: Sandman Post Number: 41 Registered: 02-2004 |
Bruno, The safari's are great, but they use those Toy Sand Losers! Still, it's an open buffet and I can eat a lot! :-0 Enjoy the camel rides and sandboarding. The desert temperatures should do you nice! SandMan | ||
| Ron Brown (Ron) Senior Member Username: Ron Post Number: 760 Registered: 04-2001 |
" had to spend the weekend with a not so friendly guy.. But hey he paid the 1000.00 to have the service done.." If I was not married this would be a great way to get women. LOL Carl, 90k on a DII is a joke, as it does not get a trans filter and it does not need plugs except at 60 and 120. Not even the diffs get done. Change the trans fluid (no filter change required), oil change, syphon out the brake fluid, and coolent change and you have the bulk of it done. Find the list of required things on line. Ron PS while everything else can wait 5-6k the oil change part of it cannot wait. |
