Going forward, always take pictures of the outside when you arrive and while they are watching. No matter where I go, I stand there and take photos on all four sides. They know right off not to screw around.

 

Basically the hub is two pieces. Inner bearing assembly (which bolts to axle housing) and outer hub/flange asembly (which tire mounts too). The two pieces are pressed together at the factory, but the axle nut holds the two assemblies together on the vehicle. Without the axle nut, given enough time, the outer assembly can work its way off the inner assembly...and go rolling down the road...all by its lonesome. Luckily, it has your rear axle nut that was missing...if it had been the front, with all of the turning of the wheel...it would have surely came off earlier. Sometimes the caliper hanger will hold the assembly in place long enough for the vehicle to grind to a halt...if it comes apart. So, since this has been quite loose for some time...l'd check the brake caliper hangers and make sure everything looks okay.

Yes, lugnuts should be check, especially on aluminum rims/wheels, after 50 miles of installation...don't care who put them on...professional mechanic or owner... a must do. Also, that wheel is toast now, elongated holes will lead to serious vibration or it coming loose again...it must be replaced. Actually, l'd not trust that hub either...l'd change that too.

Axle seals are just o-rings on the rear. Normally, the vent is plugged and while driving the spinning gear set causes excessive pressure inside axle housing...which forces fluid past the o-rings...or through the hub itself in some cases. When l find a axle/trans/transfer case leak, first step is to make sure vent tubes are clean and clear of obstructions. 9 times out of 10...this will be the culprit.

 

This is such a bummer to read -- you paid for a job and you got totally hosed !

My advice: Never take a Land Rover to a mechanic who doesn't specialize in... Land Rovers.

I do 85% of everything myself, and what 15% I can't or don't want to do myself, I take to a Land Rover specialist. I can't even get my tire shop to not screw up the lug nuts on my Disco.

In the long run you will be worse off going to any old mechanic with one of these for anything more complicated than a standard repair. Sealing axle seals with silicone is so lame, and forgetting an axle nut is pretty much as bad and as hacky and unprofessional as it could get for a mechanic who works for an actual car repair business.

I mean, maybe if it's your neighbor who's doing it on the side... they could get a hall pass... but an actual mechanic at a business. No way.

Anyway.

 

I learned this in Atlanta within 2 minutes of arriving at the mechanic's garage...
Mechanic: Strange looking Land "Cruiser".
Me: It's a Land Rover.
Mechanic: Are they made by Range Rover?
Me: Bye Dude...

 

haha I would run as well. Who knows how bad they would mess that up

 

Yeah those folks that call em a Land Cruiser or oh you mean it's the base model Range Rover = RUN FOREST RUN!!!!

 

Yeah I just do all the work myself rather than trusting other goobers, learned a LONG time ago, if I want it done right then I better half do it myself because the next guy won't care enough to even do that good of a job. Plus I'm not going to waste money paying someone to do either what I can do or can learn to do for myself.

We will always pay a much higher price when the other guy has the upper hand. Some people sure prob don't care to throw money around at other people to fix it for them, and thank God for those people they pay part of my living wage in life LOL but I hear stories all the time from people getting burned and it's generally because they are ignorant and worse they let the mechanic know they are ignorant...
Shame how people shaft people over and in this OP's case do retarded stuff like this putting the customer in danger and everyone else around her too, that garbage should be criminal.
Bet he get's his advice from Scotty Kilmer, probably would use compression fittings on brake lines to LOL.

 

this happens in a lot of trades/work, i find people just dont care about their work,sad thing is some of those people get further ahead than most