Hope this doesn't across as too commercial and if so, mods feel free to amend / contact me etc but I'd like to put a recommendation on the forum and a huge thanks to Stu Armson of Armson AE in Syston, for the work he's done on my G4 Sport, prior to me exporting it to my new home here in Australia. ArmsonAE haven't been in business long, but the customer service I've received has been superb. I have no affiliation with him or anything like that, I'm just an incredibly satisfied customer.

I left the UK early in October, leaving the car with Stu for him to do a full 75k mile service and make sure it was ready for shipping to Aus. At the time, I expected to ship it within 3-4 weeks. Suffice to say it's not that easy to arrange the import permits and as such, the car was delivered (by Stu) to the docks for shipping yesterday

He's gone above and beyond the call of duty in my opinion to make sure the car's in A1 condition & to make sure that when it gets here, I'll not have any servicing or repairs to carry out for many many months to come (you think the prices for servicing & repairs are high in the UK, just come to Aus and see how cheap the UK really is ) and to make sure I'll not have any problems with the quarantine inspections (it needs to be spotless underneath).

The list of stuff he's done is as follows:

Strip & rebuild the rear brakes & handbrake mechanism, after finding the handbrake shoes seized to the backplate and actuator arms, renewing all the shoes, pads & discs
Replace every fluid & filter. Brake fluid, engine oil, diffs, including the gearbox oil & pan
Air & pollen filters
New spark plugs
Replace 2 water hoses & the antifreeze
Fit a new steering wheel (old one was gooey, thanks TLO for the new one)
Fit a spare wheel carrier to my roofrack
Re-wire the roofrack spotlights
Replace all 4 shocks & airsprings (rear shocks were knackered, front springs begun to split and it's cheaper to buy complete new units ready built than mess about replacing just the dampers)
New suspension compressor after going to change the filter dryer and finding the pump full of water
Fix the reflectors in the passenger side headlamp
Extract the seized in towbar, strip out the lock & replace it all, then grind out the mounting point so it actually fits properly
Update the engine & gearbox software to the latest from LR, as well as telling the ecu software it's now in Australia & apply the satnav on the move
Clean it inside, outside & underneath with the wheelarch liners and bash plates all removed to make sure the last 6 years of mud have been removed.
Put my 6 Wolf boxes, 2 jerry cans, massive storage case and a few extra spare filters & brake pads he's arranged back into the car.
And finally, deliver it to the shipping firm in Barking for me yesterday

Throughout the whole process, I've been kept fully informed either by email or phone as to what he's found & done to the car, with options on parts & prices, so all the decisions (properly so) have been up to me. 95% of what's gone onto the car has been OEM, only at nowhere near OEM retail prices. I know that reading the list a lot will think I'm mental for having so much done, but I'm futureproofing myself and the car in some cases so I accept it's a bit OTT. The cost however hasn't been, I'm not going to say how much but suffice to say I don't have a moneytree in my front garden and I certainly couldn't afford to buy a RRS here in Aus that's for sure.

So, in short, anyone wanting service or repair work done to a D3 or RRS (or any Land Rover for that matter) in and around Leicestershire, give Stu a call and see what he can do for you. He even has a courtesy car (not that it was much use to me over here ). I can't recommend him highly enough.

Cheers
Mike

http://armsonae.webs.com/
http://www.armsonae.co.uk/
Telephone: 07977 051 769 Ex-G4 Challenge RRS HSE, BV55 YZE. Subtle shade of orange ! Now registered YZE481 G4RRS in Melbourne.