sls light

[type911]

The SLS light came on today at 50181 miles. Just out of warrenty by 181 miles. What should I look for to escape paying dealer costs. I don't want to switch to springs. I guess how do I find out what part of the system is broken? When I press the rear lift button nothing happens? Thanks

[Muddy Oval]

It's probably just a height sensor out of whack or something- find an independent Rover shop with a computer that can talk to Rovers and they can tell you what the fault is. The dealers will rape you.

[6cuda6]

As Muddy suggests or you could also take it to the dealer and see if they can help you out. If you are a loyal customer and have a good service history they will probably work with you to get some coverage [if this was the VW dealer i work for they would try to get the part covered at least].....worse case is you have to pay them for the scan .... than have it repaired at an Indy shop.

[Rovin4life]

Originally Posted by type911

The SLS light came on today at 50181 miles. Just out of warrenty by 181 miles. What should I look for to escape paying dealer costs. I don't want to switch to springs. I guess how do I find out what part of the system is broken? When I press the rear lift button nothing happens? Thanks

Im sorry but nothing makes me laugh more then the individuals that pride themselves as luxury car owners and decide to drive the vehicle long after the vehicle is out of warrantee and bitch about the cost of a dealer when they could have saved lots of money and got an extended warrantee from Land Rover or whomever and not only got a better deal but a better car along with it. Some of you think just dont do your homework and moan and groan when stuff goes wrong on their cars after the warrantee. Best part is a Certified warrantee, all hell any warrantee not only pays itself off but if gives the vehicle a higher selling price and better negotiation in the end.


If you think having an SLS lite on at 51K your in for a long and expensive LR ownership, You better pray that your headgaskets, Intake gaskets, Hub seals, Radiator, window regulators, and air bags, radios and any other fuel or emission problem doesnt go bad, Cause they are all expensive and they all break down.

I'd sell the vehicle quick before you really regret not getting that warrantee.

[Muddy Oval]

Jesus Hiroshima Christ- the guy just wants to know where to start with a problem on his truck without paying the dealers huge rates. There's dealers charging $150/hr and that doesn't even guarantee the dude working on it knows ANYTHING. A $4,000 warranty to cover stuff that can be fixed outside of a dealership isn't really a great deal. Unless you have a MASSIVE failure, it'll never pay off. Radiators aren't a big deal, nor are hubs or window regulators- oh, unless a stealer is replacing it.

[Rovin4life]

Wow, Muddy I didnt know you lived in a fantasy land. Reality is cars break down and Land Rovers are expensive, and before you go off about how expensive Dealers are please remember Dealers provide you as independants experience and experienced techs.


besides four thousand dollars is bargain compared to the price to get a car fixed correctly. Its obvious your experience with dealers are less then good. I mean you make it your mission in life to bemoan every dealer in any car line despite the fact that dealers unlike independants have to pay to have uptodate info and All the tools to fix any car and did you know the price to diagnose vehicles is cheap compared to the cost of computers and constant monthly updates.

How often are your diagnostic machines updated. What about paying to get access to GTR for everyone, not to mention training and the cost of running a shop.

I have never seen anyone so against dealers that it makes me laugh. Your a man on a mission to destroy the dealer network and yet you bought a few vehicles from dealers and want to go to the dealer for warrantee service.

Since you have never owned a new discovery long past warrantee you have no idea what these poor souls go thru. I am sorry dude but your war call against the entire dealer network gets pretty tiring. I wonder if you have the ability to actually work in a dealership as a technician. Work flatrate and all the time on Rovers both old and new both warrantee and cp. I am sure half the information you get from accessing GTR and listening in to the techs at your workplace. I mean if you wanted to know how to diag a Mark Three Range Rover who would you turn to. Wait thats us, we are the ones with the info. We are the ones that have to deal with the warrantee crap. You act like your gods gift to Land Rover owners yet all you do is sell parts. Give it up man. Hell in your opinion local mechanics are domestic parts swappers.

But if thats your opinion what does that make DAP, an english parts swapper.

[Muddy Oval]

Trying to sell the dealer as a "value" is laughable. The constant sales pitch is tiring and trying to scare people into thinking they have to bend over for astounding hourly rates. Flat rate techs cutting corners to make up time- no thanks. That's why they took 8 hours to put a new spark plug wire in the trunk of my Disco instead of installing it?
We charge people for the time we spend- that's only fair. Rarely does a job even take as long as 'book time.' If you think all we do is swap parts- go ahead and think it... we build stuff you're not allowed to at a dealer. When a dealer can't fix an unusual vehicle or a collectible they send them to us. We have all the latest software too- we have the same stuff the dealer does.
Dealers are the partswappers- whatever fault code they see, just start swapping parts as fast and halfassed as they can because it's flat rate. How many of your techs can use an o-scope to examine the data stream? I've never seen a dealer with an o-scope yet.

In the old days, a mechanic FIXED stuff- you never bought a new carb or a new starter. The mechanic knew how it worked and could open it up and fix it. I've had shop the foreman of a L.R. dealer tell me that he's never seen a Land Rover with a carb and they wouldn't know what to do with it. Modern day commercial "big business" dealer shops are high volume, high profit part swap shops. We get dealer owners sending their trucks to us for restorations and upgrades... we MAKE parts for rare trucks. We can think outside the white and green box.