Can anyone confirm what the service intervals are for a 2013 L405 please.

I'm looking to purchase one from a main dealer but the service history only shows 2 services in the book since new. I understood that the service intervals where 16,000 miles / 12 months, whichever was the soonest. The salesman is telling me its 16,000 miles only

12 monthly

Whenever the car tells you..... It has a sensor that checks oil quality.

I've never been a buyer of the annual service thing - the service agents will say that, but if it were really true, then surely the engineers would program the car service indicator to come on after 12 months......

Moot point for my FFRR as I do enough miles that I never get near 12 months anyway,

Whether or not we believe in 12 month intervals, it’s a potential source of “get outs” for any future extended warranty claim and tends to indicate that the original owner might not have cared for the car as much as I’d have liked. The fact that the dealer either didn’t know this pretty vital piece of information or, worse still, might have fibbed wouldn’t fill me with confidence.

Buz1500 wrote:

... the service history only shows 2 services in the book since new...

Ours never came with a stamped service book as we were told it's all done electronically now on the L405. Rendering the 'book' concept redundant. The idea being that the service history is computer accessible across the LR network (I do have copies of all the service and maintenance receipts as proof of history though)?

When I stated 'the service book' this was actually the printout from the online records that the dealer provided.

The cars warranty period started on 01/3/2013, I assuming this is when the car was purchased. The two services were then as follows:

05/02/2015 - 14,766 miles
07/08/2017 - 39,678 miles (current mileage)

The fact that it hasn't had an annual service concerns me as I understood that you had to have an annual check of the bodywork to retain the anti-corrosion warranty.

It is possible that the owner did not use the LR network to service the car. That's not fatal if so.

If the selling dealer does not have receipts for or knowledge of service and maintenance between 14 and 39k miles, then you could ask the seller to contact the previous keeper to ask where they had the car serviced in between 14k miles and offloading it around 39k miles.

Oh dear, if there’s a 2 1/2 year and 25,000 mile gap in the service record, the dealer hasn’t already thought to ask that question of the previous owner (before buying the car and putting it on the forecourt) and he mislead you over service intervals, then I’d be running a mile and finding another dealer, pronto!!

I can understand 12 monthly services in very humid conditions. I’m in the subtropics and do Services by km rather than time.

If it was my car it would have a service every 6000miles. However, in reality it’s a very young motor. I would consider it at the right price. Use it as a strong negotiating point. ______________________________
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The bottom line is it hasn't been serviced as per manufacturer's requirements, they therefore can refuse to do any possible warranty work in the future.

I would think it impossible for a main dealer to sell it with a warranty if that were the case.......

I had this on a D4 Lux I nearly purchased from a MD on the south coast. They offered to give it an extra service to bring it back into line and they were able to put a 2 year AUC warranty on it.

However and this is the big HOWEVER, LR told me that if there was a failure which could be due to lack of servicing the warranty would not cover it.

I declined to go through with the sale and purchased another D4 with low lineage and impeccable history and then the crankshaft snapped from the bearings seasing!! 3.0 VSE - 2015MY
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LR told me it's a clean slate moment when a main dealer takes a car in and puts it through the multi point checks and puts an A.U warranty on it... and that was confirmed in writing. They all say different things.

If you've got it in writing, there should be no issue

Apologies to jump on this post, I purchased my vehicle at the end of August this year from the Stratstone Land Rover Approved Scheme and have done £3.5K miles since. After about 5 weeks the car notified service was due in 1k. Vehicle is now saying due a service. If correct should I be expected to pay for this or should the car of had 12 months service upon collection? Seems strange I’m having to pay for a service 10 weeks into ownership? Thanks. Dan

What did they tell you when you bought it ? Did they say it had been serviced ? Or supply a service history printout ?

All you can really do is call them and ask, after expressing your surprise / disappointment.......