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I'm not keen on an independent advertising they use Carlube ATF-U.

No doubt they use it as their LT71141 substitute.

[quote="Reusch"]
Once again this has cropped up, do I don't I ,mines nearly at 90,000 04 plate.
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Do it buddy, won't regret it. Know Jason does it - May not be ideal location wise though. Mine was done at 35k cos of a leaky gasket and if I have it long enough I'll get one done at 95k, on 59k now.

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[quote="andym3"]
Im a great believer in getting the gearbox serviced! If your car has done over 60.000 miles get the gearbox serviced! Anything that has moving parts and takes oil, the oil does need changing! 
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My X is about 130k miles. I bought when it was about 53k miles so most of the mileage was 120miles motorway daily trip to work. After spending so much in fuel, I bought a golf MKIV to do the motorway miles and relegated the X5 to to weekends use from about 3yrs ago.

Any recommendations for somewhere down south (.. SE london/Kent)  to take for servicing?

cheers
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I got my gearbox serviced at the Automatic Gearbox Centre in Hove (Brighton) 

[quote="Sanj"]
[quote="Reusch"]
Once again this has cropped up, do I don't I ,mines nearly at 90,000 04 plate.
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Do it buddy, won't regret it. Know Jason does it - May not be ideal location wise though. Mine was done at 35k cos of a leaky gasket and if I have it long enough I'll get one done at 95k, on 59k now.
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Yep Sanj I'm going to get it done I might go to Jason and make a weekend away of it unless anybody can recommend anywhere closer (I'm in Blackpool)

[quote="Reusch"]
Yep Sanj I'm going to get it done I might go to Jason and make a weekend away of it unless anybody can recommend anywhere closer (I'm in Blackpool)
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Hook up. I'm only 25 mins from the ugly gits. Let me know when you go and if work dictates I'll pop over.

there is a good place in preston on Blackpool rd who was recommended to me -

http://automaticgearboxrepairs.com/

not tried them personally but was going to give them a ring this week and see myself about getting done-or Ribble valley 4x4 sell the fluid quite cheap-£9.08 a litre  and the filter and gasket from williams comes in at £ 69.00 +Vat, one of the guys I work with used to work for Hillanddale land rover -he reckons its no biggy to DIY so might just do it myself!!( no doubt if I do it my mate will wait and see and then do his if all goes well-LOL)

[quote="Sanj"]
[quote="Reusch"]
Yep Sanj I'm going to get it done I might go to Jason and make a weekend away of it unless anybody can recommend anywhere closer (I'm in Blackpool)
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Hook up. I'm only 25 mins from the ugly gits. Let me know when you go and if work dictates I'll pop over.
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Cheers Sanj I'll not be able to get that way until at least November so I'll probably get it done closer to home, now I'm thinking of getting it done now really.

[quote="sprintman"]
there is a good place in preston on Blackpool rd who was recommended to me -

http://automaticgearboxrepairs.com/

not tried them personally but was going to give them a ring this week and see myself about getting done-or Ribble valley 4x4 sell the fluid quite cheap-£9.08 a litre  and the filter and gasket from williams comes in at £ 69.00 +Vat, one of the guys I work with used to work for Hillanddale land rover -he reckons its no biggy to DIY so might just do it myself!!( no doubt if I do it my mate will wait and see and then do his if all goes well-LOL)
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Think I will give the a bell cheers.

Price update-Williams BMW Rochdale -£63.15 + vat(£75.78) for genuine Gearbox filter and gasket
Kit-use them quite a bit and they deliver to my work FOC and even bring a card machine so I can pay by card!

I have seen alot of Meyle and Febi filters being used on the 6 speeds.

Never seen an issue with any of the ones I have seen.

The plastic sump ones also appear to be perfectly identical to the Filtran ones.

http://www.incarmotorfactors.co.uk/en/1 ... 70002.html

Just got a price from the chaps in Preston £150 for the 5 speed box and £300 for the 6 speed box both prices plus vat.

Got this quote from a local bmw specialist, does this sound right??


Hi

Your transmission holds 9.5 ltrs but usually about 6ltrs will drain out, the rest is in the torque converter and valve block, The oil is £18.50+vat /ltr. We use Shell M 1375.4 which is the same as BMW fill the box with and the cost of changing would be £75+ vat.




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This is what I was talking about in another thread. http://xdrivers.co.uk/forum/index.php/t ... 19.60.html

Everybody seems to state that they use a different fluid from everyone else. So there is no clear cut answer on what is right and what is wrong and very little confidence that the correct fluid is actually being used by any one "specialist".

The confusion happens when people mix up the correct fluid with the original fluid.

Correct fluid falls anything within 1375.4, so Millers, Febi, Meyle etc etc.

Original fluid is a blanket LG6 fluid ZF branded and nothing else.

Independents will use something like Millers which is the correct fluid but not the original fluid. Then people will go on a forum going, my indy is trying to use the wrong fluid!

And this is where the confusion starts.

Moat, what do you think about the shell oil I got quoted for in the post above??


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