First service due at 4300 miles?

I'm a bit surprised by the service reminder. My Evoque has done 2,700 miles, and today it flashed up a reminder "Service Due in 1,600 miles". I didn't expect it to need a first service after just 4,300 miles.

Is this normal?

Also, Topix has listed for my Evoque "Q450 - 9 speed automatic transmission calibration". Anyone know what this is?

(27-02-2015 03:26pm)tarbat Wrote:  I'm a bit surprised by the service reminder. My Evoque has done 2,700 miles, and today it flashed up a reminder "Service Due in 1,600 miles". I didn't expect it to need a first service after just 4,300 miles.

Is this normal?

Also, Topix has listed for my Evoque "Q450 - 9 speed automatic transmission calibration". Anyone know what this is?

How old is the car ,service intervals are not just mileage based

(27-02-2015 05:19pm)derekredwards Wrote:  How old is the car ,service intervals are not just mileage based

It's 10 months old. So, is the service reminder trying to guess how many miles I might do in the next 2 months? If I do 1,600 miles next week on a trip down south to relatives, will I have to service it before the 12 months is up even though the mileage will only be 4,300?

(27-02-2015 05:22pm)tarbat Wrote:  It's 10 months old. So, is the service reminder trying to guess how many miles I might do in the next 2 months? If I do 1,600 miles next week on a trip down south to relatives, will I have to service it before the 12 months is up even though the mileage will only be 4,300?

No you wont have to.
Sticking to the 12 month interval should be fine.

(27-02-2015 03:26pm)tarbat Wrote:  Also, Topix has listed for my Evoque "Q450 - 9 speed automatic transmission calibration". Anyone know what this is?

Had Q450 done earlier this week, still evaluating but changes seem cleaner, most of the snatch has gone when changing between 2 to 3 and down again. Now more inclined to change down when in cruise and coming to an incline, before it would hold on to a high gear and set up a drive line judder. Seems to have a bit more go, more responsive. See how things go, after my last update it lost drive after a few hundred miles and got towed away!

LR are behind the times with there service schedule. A service at 12 months with low millage
I've had three services now & the RRE was only done 10k. Unlike my Ford which won't need its first service until 30k or two years. Even the VW I had last year was on a 20k or two year service schedule.

They are different with the new Igenium engines, but I worry about them being too far apart.

My last Alfa was two years before first Service/oil change, I'd never have gone that long before with a diesel.

Times change.

it is actually bad for a car not to cover many miles in a year - instead of the usual wear and tear of lots of driving you suffer other damage such as seized brakes, lack of lubrication to moving parts, loss of gas from the Aircon system etc. my mother's 1998 Honda Civic does only 1000 miles a year and needs a fortune spent on a service before every MOT freeing up the brakes.

(04-03-2015 03:17am)XFullFatTim Wrote:  it is actually bad for a car not to cover many miles in a year - instead of the usual wear and tear of lots of driving you suffer other damage such as seized brakes, lack of lubrication to moving parts, loss of gas from the Aircon system etc.

Really? Sure, I only do about 3000 - 5000 miles each year, the last year has been less because we've not visited down south this year. Typically we do 1 or sometimes 2 journeys each week, 25 miles each time, plus other less frequent longer journeys. Never had a DPF warning, and our Evoque runs sweet. I would have thought that was enough mileage to keep everything lubricated and working okay. I never leave the handbrake on when parked at home, so seized brakes shouldn't be a problem.

Just surprised that Land Rover's service warning system puts a cap of 4,300 miles between services if you only do low mileage like me. Why is that?

The servicing indicator is both miles and elapsed time, so if you were covering 32000 miles a year you would have to 2 services in the 12 months. My cars sit unused for 6 months of the year. I have never been able to get any of my RR's with an EPB to park with it disengaged, it auto-engages after a while. 25 miles a week is probably enough to prevent things from getting seized up and all the oil running to the sump, mine does 32 miles every 6 weeks while I am overseas for 3 months and suffers no ill effects.................... since March 28 last year I have done 7500 miles and have been away for 6 of the 11 months and the car gets used most days when I am home. Unlike my first Evoque this one has started first press of the starter button even after the long cold spell this winter - last winter LRA had to come out twice and replace a dead battery of my first Evoque and the same the previous winter! I thought maybe you were like me and leaving it locked and unloved for long periods.