went and had my 70k maintenance. service manager,(really great guy by the way) said jag has come off there sealed for life tranny. said jag now says to replace fluid at 60k. got a quote for cleaning and replacing all fluids,(tranny, t/c,and diffs) for $650. think that's fair? let me know. really thinking a good idea sinceonce they crack that puppy open and it was working fine, it becomes their baby. LOL thanks, Bill

 

Bill, I never trust the "sealed for life" statements the dealerships make, regardless of the manufacturer.

As for the price of the service, to me that seems a bit high. You could do most of that in your driveway in probably 4-5 hours easily. The cost of the fluids isn't that much. Sure the full synthetic 75W-140 gear lube for the differentials is a bit pricy at about $12 a quart, but the rear diff uses 1.2 quarts and the transfer case uses like 0.5 quarts. If I remember right, the tranny doesn't use that much fluid either. The big thing with that is that you require a special fluid. I haven't tried finding it out in town, but hearing other members talk, you can only get the fluid from Jaguar itself. Even still, 4-5 hours with your car, the ability to see the car up close and know the exact status of everything while saving $500 sounds good in my book. I'm about ready to do this very service to my Jag as I just bought it and want to know the status of all the fluids.

The only pain that I can figure out so far is that the rear differential requires a vacuum pump to get the fluid out. But, these pumps are pretty cheap ($15). The other option is to get some 3/8" rubber hose, feed it into the fill hole and then vacuum drag the fluid out that way. May not get 100% of the fluid, but you will get a majority of it.

I know not everyone is mechanically inclinded. But, the fluid changes are pretty easy.

Chris "Thermo" Coleman

 

i know a lot of the peoplle on here have replaced the tranny and rear diff fluids them selfs... any updates?

 

Just remeber the tranfer case is sealed.

 

Not to argue with you....ButNO it is NOT sealed..I changed mine and there is several threads to that topic.