V8 Service Costs

hmmmm

while they could have different schedules every tojo ive seen has its major services at 40 and 80k where they change all oils and grease bearings

G'day Doug,
What on earth are you doing worrying about V8s at 3:30 in the bloody morning!? Aaarh... you want to plug your Ecorout in. Well why don't I come down there with the V8 and my Ecorout plugged in and you drive within 10 meters of me and you can read it on your GPS? It'll save ya 60 grand.
Having driven the previous 6 cylinder turbo and the V8 (both GXL'S) on and off road I found both to have ample power and a pleasure to drive. However if I had a choice of one or the other I would go with the 6 cylinder. I don't like the way they seem to have shoe horned the V8 in, it is very compact should you have to try and work on it. The starter motor is a mission to get to, and all those hoses under the intercooler that you can't see should they start to leak, coupled to the fact that there is no radiator cap!
I feel the V8 has become too technical to be classed as a simple, reliable, off road work horse that the 6 cylinder was. All this technical stuff does come at a price and cost to maintain. I may be sounding old, but I'm still younger than you Doug, (not hard) and believe that an off road work horse has to be simple so that with a bit of knowledge we at least have a chance to get it going to get back to safety.
This is only my opinion of course. When I look at your troopy and it's simple 4.2 litre motor and then look at your speedo... 740,000 klms I wonder, how much it would cost to get a V8 there... if it can.

Noel K.

You could save a lot of dollars in labour if you did the bearings and oils yourself.

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Will do as soon as it is out of warranty............until then they have me captive !

200000ks is normal, and they have to be replaced.
Cheers Pete

Thanks for that - ouch !!

Cheers

Darryl

No issues

$180 per servce for the first 60,000k too.