Hi,

Considering of buying an auto I would like to know how many miles you have on your auto boxes,if you had any problems with them (not mentioning Q106) and how often (if ever) you change ATF fluid....may be we will find interesting results....Thanks

As far as the LR advice is concerned the auto box is sealed for life - whatever that means! My wife's car, a Mercedes E Class, has an auto box where the advice is to change the AFT at 40,000 miles. I don't trust "sealed for life" as it means nothing so I will be changing my AFT at about the same mileage. My FL2 has so far only done 14500 miles and with no problems.

Ben Twillie wrote:

sealed for life - whatever that means!

The life of the car, not the life of the driver...
Although could be the later too, if you don't live too much...
Car's life is aprox. 10 year and/or 150.000 miles (240.000 km).
After this period, LR said you should change the ATF oil.
Too much in my opinion....
BUT...
Changing the oil, without changing the filter is of little use...
The impurities have been already retained by the filter so changing the oil will mean to change a fluid with another, the new fluid having the same hard time passing through a clogged filter.
And the filter can be changed only if you dismantle the box.
Of course, the new fluid will withstand much better the conditions as the old one is already loosing its qualities, but...

Alex : ...seems that on newer cars you should divide these numbers by two...

Ben: ...very good idea to change ATF after 40k miles...we use 60k km interval for our customers and the condition of the oil we let out often proves it makes sense

.....of course including filter and some cleaning where possible...