D4 2.7 fuel flap sticker

[WhiteD3]

Guys,

What does this mean? I can't find it in the book and I've never owned a diesel before :angel:

Cheers.

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[Bundalene]

If allergic to DIESEL, make yourself a cuppa, read a book and have some acupuncture?:D


Or check your oil every 600 miles, top up as required, rear the users manual for oil type and more information?


Erich

[WhiteD3]

There's some lateral think for you. Here's me thinking that a sticker on the fuel flap had something to do with fuel; some additive I had to remember to do.

[bbyer]

There's some lateral think for you. Here's me thinking that a sticker on the fuel flap had something to do with fuel; some additive I had to remember to do. The English language is sort of history now with Land Rover. I guess the positive spin would be that it is a world 4x4, hence pictures now, no words. What surprises me is that they actually did use the word Diesel - seems to me in France it is Gazoil or something like that and not to be confused with Gas Oil which is tax free diesel, (farm use), in the UK I think.

The little book picture with the i letter is something to do with some written instructions somewhere, probably in English, (surprise).

The "tea pot" with the drip relates back to the days of oil lamps and the pyramids I guess.

The triangle, I forget what that means - maybe warning or caution.

The dipstick, well the good news is your engine at least still has one. The new V8 petrol engines do not.

The 1000 km / 600 miles is I suppose telling you to check the engine oil everytime you fuel up which you probably do already.

Yes, all this pictograph stuff gets to me sometimes. I recall that just recently I finally figured out what the sticker on the fender near the battery meant, and how many years has that been - five?

Regarding Additive, I wonder if Mercedes has anything on their diesel fuel flaps re that BlueTec fluid where the BlueTec tank has to be topped up at every oil change or thereabouts? Fortunately Land Rover is not into that technology yet.

I think I may have to go back to school.:o

[Duck's Guts]

The little book picture with the i letter is something to do with some written instructions somewhere, probably in English, (surprise)...
The triangle, I forget what that means - maybe warning or caution.

Refer to owners manual for warnings/cautions.

The 'tea pot' on a gas burner next to a dip stick, both drippiing oil...so...check oil when the vehicle is at operating temperature ie. warm oil.

[WhiteD3]

Wouldn't it have been easier to write "Check oil every 1000km"? I'm sure there's room on the sticker.

Or better still, have a message pop up on the carputer display.

[Neil P]

They don't fancy their chances with an Oiler and yearly sevice intervals ?
Now it's check your oil all the bloody-time ? Does the poverty pack 2.7 not
have the all singing-dancing electronic monitor display ?

[roamer]

My 3lt has the same sticker, with dip stick sign, :bangin:

[clubagreenie]

The triangle is a notice, vs warning vs danger. There's a std for them as to the level of potential for death. I think in the front of RAVE there's an explanation of them. But basically, you need to check this, look in book for instructions (thats this triangle and book). Next is you may be hurt if you don't listen to the book and next will be hurt/may die and finally you will die.

So this could be:

attention, read book or boiling oil may explode and kill you, douse in diesel from an eyedropper.

[bbyer]

Refer to owners manual for warnings/cautions.

The 'tea pot' on a gas burner next to a dip stick, both dripping oil...so...check oil when the vehicle is at operating temperature ie. warm oil. I missed the "gas burner" heat symbol; hence the meaning to check the oil level when the engine is hot.

While my experience is limited to petrol engines, I like to check oil before startup when the engine is cold. I assume that most of the oil is down in the oil pan rather than up in the galleries but I never thought about that not being the proper way, or say a less than desirable procedure - one learns.

[Neil P]

.... I like to check oil before startup when the engine is cold. ...
That's the only way it should be read : stone cold , gravity accumulated.
If it's hot , then it's all over the block's volume , and the reading is useless. I'll keep to convention . If I followed the views that I come across , I'd be bankrupt and dead several times a year !

[bbyer]

That's the only way it should be read : stone cold , gravity accumulated.
If it's hot , then it's all over the block's volume , and the reading is useless. I'll keep to convention . If I followed the views that I come across , I'd be bankrupt and dead several times a year ! Yes, checking oil level with the engine cold, after a while, one knows what to expect as to colour and fluid level, etc.

When the engine is cold, the dip stick is pretty easy to read both the first time I pull it out and then the second just to see if the reading remains the same. Also I can kind of smell the oil and feel it - hot, it is just not the same as the oil seems to climb up the dip stick tube, (or down), and sort of fouls up the level readings and thins out and gets more clear; also I am not certain if I am smelling the oil or the engine.

As to the money, keeping some is what I am trying to achieve by checking the oil level when cold. Now if it was the tranny, and if it had a dipstick, well that is different; also I seem to recall the old air cooled Porches that had oil tanks were check hot, but then they were sort of a dry sump type of engine - something I try to avoid with the 3.

I guess that is why the "check oil level when hot" heat symbology on the Diesel Land Rover gas flap sticker did not register with me. There is nothing like that on the NAS LR3 but that is probably because LR does not consider us here smart enough to check the oil level ever - hence the electronic readout stuff on the D4. I guess you Diesel guys can consider yourself on a higher level, and with deeper pockets.