If you've just had a rear caliper fitted, I'd question whether the garage has tightened all the brake fittings first, then wonder why they hadn't noticed the issue,
The timing is too coincidental.
If you have got a leaking pipe rather than "just" a pipe fitting leaking, it's most likely because of severe corrosion of the steel brake pipe between the rear subframe and the area above the side step bracket.
Unfortunately if its the pipe that's failed the fact that you've only lost a small amount of fluid so far has no relationship to the fact that it could fail significantly very shortly & totally lose 1 of the rear brakes.
Safest option is to get it towed / trailered to the garage.
You could risk a very slow / gentle drive, but first you ought to press the brake pedal very hard with the engine on to see if it does suddenly "burst" / deteriorate further.
For any competent garage its an easy fix using standard cunifer (copper- nickel) brake pipe - cut and bent by them to fit, without buying the Land Rover part which will be ridiculously over priced, very difficult to fit and which will fail again due to corrosion in the future. Paul,
2001 Discovery 2 TD5, 211,000 miles & climbing
2006 FFRR TDV8 Vogue 151,000 miles & now sold
Member of Midland (Land) Rover Owners Club, www.mroc.co.uk
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