that was funny earlyrover.. i probably shouldt laugh.. but damn that is funny.. "not a new hairspray"... lol
i do agree with ZG. i check mine once a week at the local fast lube i used to work at. it is too damn cold out. coolant and oil checked every day.

 

"A little harsh, don't you think? The D2 has no tranny dipstick and not everyone is into crawling under a running truck to pull a plug out of a pan full of hot fluid. He did take it to a shop, but it looks like they didn't want to do it either!"
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I guarantee you that it will be a whole lot more harsh if you should kill the transmission due to your lack of preventive maintenance; if you don't care to do what needs to be done, you better care enough to take it to someone who does; pay them for their services. In other words, you will pay now, for preventive maintenance, or pay much more later; your choice. Sometimes the harshness hurts, but if you can't face reality, stop driving.

 

Sometime I thinks people confuse tough love for harshness.

I'm guilty of coming off harsh at times too but there is a good reason and we see it here regularly when someone buys a used Disco and then proceeds to drive it like its a Honda or Toyota.

These cars are different, they can't be treated as plug and play vehicles that will go 100k without thought like most every other vehicle of the last decade or so... Every one of the veterans here has a different way of expressing the seriousness of that.

If that seems off putting you should consider it could save you huge amounts of money to put aside your pride and listen. I know... hard to do at times... Lol.

Land Rovers require a certain kind of owner, like certain kinds of dogs or women are not for beginners.

Rovers are not for passive beginners... unless you buy a new one with full factory warrantee and then you better flip it before the warrantee expires. :-)

Rovers are for ACTIVE owners who understand and appreciate the quirks. Beginners are ok, as long as you understand the rules.

The quirks are not that difficult or hard to understand, they just can't be ignored. It takes your active participation... Or you better be willing and able pay for someone else's active participation.

 

I'll take active participation thanks very much. I'm not new to the quirky car scene. My ex loved saabs.. and the one before her had a Jones for volvos. I myself love quirky vehicles. The weirdness makes them worth it to me. Lol

 

"For gawd sake, man, don't you guys check your transmission fluid, especially if transmission is slipping? Did you really think that a Rover will go forever, without your checking anything? You need to be introduced to PREVENTIVE MAINTENANCE, AND NO, THAT ISN'T A NEW HAIR SPRAY.[/QUOTE]"

I take my vehicle maintenance very seriously. I've only had the Disco for about three years. After I bought it the first thing I did was take it to a dealer and have them do the full maintenance gambit on the Rover that was due, to include the transmission fluid flush and replacement. That was only 2 years or so from this post. This is a seasonal vehicle that literally only gets driven about 700-1000 miles or so a year, but it is started-up and maintained the rest of the year.

The fact that it was so low on fluid leads me to believe there is a leak that I haven't noticed or it's burning it up faster than I thought. This is my first Rover and I constantly scour the posts and forums for advice. I know now that the transmission fluid needs to be checked like the oil.

I think it's a good testament to how hardy Land Rovers are that it was low enough on fluid to be running that bad and was easily fixed by adding more and is running fine now. Cheers.

 

I stand by my post. Attacking the person that started this thread is a little harsh. I do all of my own work and am willing to check the fluid, but the OP took his vehicle to a transmission shop which one would assume would be a place that would be willing to check the fluid level. He did the correct thing, it's the shop that screwed up.