Russ, if you had fixed it yourself, I am convinced it would have cost less than a tenth of that, if only because you would have done something about it long before every other component in the gearbox was buggered.Russ Kellermann wrote:I have owned many 4wd's, and only ever serviced them myself, including major servicing and repairs.
However, this was the first time i was buying such an expensive vehicle and on such low milage, i wanted to keep things original and my service history true, for fear that something goes wrong under warranty or extended warranty (Which has happened) , so i was stuck between a rock and a hard place but it has , in the end, saved me about a R50 - R60 000 repair bill on the gearbox.... although that said i have had to wait 7months for it to be fixed , and i have been without a vehicle now for 4months in total. (still waiting)
This is exactly the reason I purposefully buy vehicles only after their warranties have expired, because I have heard stories like this from virtually every manufacturer.
I believe that Land Rover are about the best in this regard (as far as 4x4's go), but even they have left somebody I know in the lurch for six months while they tried to figure out what went wrong with his virtually brand new Disco 3, and then at the end wanted to blame him for it. As far as I am concerned they are almost all a bunch of lazy chancers. And furthermore, as the spare wheel cover on the back of a cruiser I saw yesterday says, life's too short to drive a Landy