So my car is finally in with the SA dealer for warranty work and it's 30K service, let's see how it goes...
First thing that came up was the oil leaks, I've had oil leaking from the bottom of the bell housing prior to the first service, was suspected to be the main seal but never got fixed, just had to putting in 1L every 5K to keep it topped up. A couple of moths ago oil use went up big time and there is oil covering the hot side of the engine. Dealer has found a split hose to the turbos and now says that's the only source of the oil leak. Think they're trying to get out of doing the main seal... I've put 7L of oil into it in 12 months, I think that's more than the actual oil capacity.
Next up cooling system, when I dropped it in it was overfilled (trying to pour a 5L container of water in using a phone for light at 10pm a couple of days earlier), they said this was why it wasn't working. I've put 7L into the right side reservoir over the past 12 months, maybe call it 6.5L with overfills, and this is only for the drivers side reservoir. Clearly a leak somewhere in the cooing system.
Front diff pinion seal, got asked if it's really an issue. The diffs aren't supposed to use oil at all, I've used 2.3L over 12 months while they only hold 2.1L, yeah, it's an issue!
And the entire HVAC system needs to be replaced, which requires the entire interior to be stripped. 1 thing the Grenadier had over a 70 series was inferior build quality, I hope the cabin is as good as it was when I bought it after this...
Many minor things to get sorted, it's an early build car so expected this but 1.5Y wait!
And while they gave me a loan car I went to take it out today and had battery warnings flash up, had 43% charge, after some driving and 1.5 hours of idling on my driveway only got to 51% charge, not counting on it starting tomorrow...
Cheers
First thing that came up was the oil leaks, I've had oil leaking from the bottom of the bell housing prior to the first service, was suspected to be the main seal but never got fixed, just had to putting in 1L every 5K to keep it topped up. A couple of moths ago oil use went up big time and there is oil covering the hot side of the engine. Dealer has found a split hose to the turbos and now says that's the only source of the oil leak. Think they're trying to get out of doing the main seal... I've put 7L of oil into it in 12 months, I think that's more than the actual oil capacity.
Next up cooling system, when I dropped it in it was overfilled (trying to pour a 5L container of water in using a phone for light at 10pm a couple of days earlier), they said this was why it wasn't working. I've put 7L into the right side reservoir over the past 12 months, maybe call it 6.5L with overfills, and this is only for the drivers side reservoir. Clearly a leak somewhere in the cooing system.
Front diff pinion seal, got asked if it's really an issue. The diffs aren't supposed to use oil at all, I've used 2.3L over 12 months while they only hold 2.1L, yeah, it's an issue!
And the entire HVAC system needs to be replaced, which requires the entire interior to be stripped. 1 thing the Grenadier had over a 70 series was inferior build quality, I hope the cabin is as good as it was when I bought it after this...
Many minor things to get sorted, it's an early build car so expected this but 1.5Y wait!
And while they gave me a loan car I went to take it out today and had battery warnings flash up, had 43% charge, after some driving and 1.5 hours of idling on my driveway only got to 51% charge, not counting on it starting tomorrow...
Cheers
