Thread: Oil overfilled TDV6 3lt

Originally Posted by roamer

Well I could have let it go but seeing you asked and since I suspect you work there, thought you would have known, that one of the grease monkeys there is apparently a pig. besause when he drained the oil he let about .5litre of oil dribble down into the cross member never wiped it up, moved onto overfill it by .5litre (manager said)and sent it off, oil spillage then spray out down underside of car hence why it was so black. Hendrik I would consider this quality of workmanship down right disrespectful, and thought this site was for information related about Land Rovers , Good & bad. people need to be aware and informed.


Cheers Ken

How convenient, just a minor issue nothing for you to worry about. How would you know if this was BS and trying to cover themselves.

Originally Posted by CaverD3

I think vehicles with no drain plug and no dipstick is asking for trouble( ie human error) Not knowing if you have removed all the oil and having no easy way to check the level after filling.
Difficult to check your work.

There is a drain plug (trust me I know) the only reason LR fitted a tube to suck the oil out was so they could slash the service costs

but not having a dipstick is a pain in the arse

Espeacially when the oil level display will only work 20 mins after switching off the engine

Interestingly the new Volvo XC60 has small service dipstick hidden down the front of engine.

Originally Posted by Frenchie

Whether the engine catastrophically failed or not, overfilling can cause damage and that may not be immediately apparent. A glib comment suggesting that Land Rovers should all be covered in leaking oil underneath is typical of the sort of pig ignorant statements that dribble out of Land Rover service agents mouths on a regular basis. IMO spilling oil on your customers nice new $90k vehicle and failing to clean it up is akin to a plumber fixing your toilet and leaving the bathroom floor covered in turds. Unprofessional.

wooowa back up a bit, how about us porr buggers who cant aford NEW ONE, have some consideration for us OK, nothing wrong with a bit of rust protection. ITs LR tryed a proven system

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Settle down boys.

You're all making good points but please just rethink the way in which you're making them.

Hi All,

Can somebody please tell me where I can find the 'correct recommended' procedure for checking the oil in my D4 3.0TD?

The reason I'm asking is the fact that I'd read the manual shortly after recieving the car..."no foot on brake, press start, select OK and scroll down to the function". I'm certain I'd done this lots of times when playing and demonstrating the function to friends. I never took notice of temperature, drive time, speed, time after shutting down, etc and it always registered full but nothing else.

After reading this post, I checked mine again...especially as it had just had it's first money printing exercise.....oh, I mean "health check".
The car was cold....I freaked, it said that it was overfull. I rang LR in a frothing haze ready to kill somebody and was then told that you can't do it cold you have to drive it for...blah, blah, blah. I checked the next time on level ground a while after shutting down and it was fine. After re-reading the manual was comforted (should I be?) by the fact that it stated there is another warning which will come on at start-up if the system is too full.

I'm really frustrated by not knowing what my car actually has fitted in the way of systems and devices, as the manual is 'one size fit's all' and also by the fact that the manual isn't correct in some areas.....For example.....Another classic confusion...service schedule.....manual states 12 months 24000Ks.....LR Australia say 12 months 26000Ks....yet the bl**dy car pinged at 6 months for a non-mandatory "health check".......

So back to the engine oil....it probably was topped up at the health check and the weather has certainly got colder....maybe that's it. However, any advice on the engine oil would certainly be appreciated. And is there a back up warning as stated in the manual?

Regards,

Kev.

At the risk of being labelled as someone who thinks the last real Land Rover had leaf springs or that it was a mistake for mankind to come down out of the trees and walk on two legs, I have to ask.

How is it possible for anyone to think that it is progress to have an oil level check system that according to posts on this thread can cause confusion and unnecessary worry?

Whoever thought it was a good idea to instruct owners to have "no foot on brake, press start, select OK and scroll down to the function" must surely have been having a bad hair day or got out of bed the wrong side.

What on earth was wrong with the dipstick method?

Originally Posted by vnx205

At the risk of being labelled as someone who thinks the last real Land Rover had leaf springs or that it was a mistake for mankind to come down out of the trees and walk on two legs, I have to ask.

How is it possible for anyone to think that it is progress to have an oil level check system that according to posts on this thread can cause confusion and unnecessary worry?

Whoever thought it was a good idea to instruct owners to have "no foot on brake, press start, select OK and scroll down to the function" must surely have been having a bad hair day or got out of bed the wrong side.

What on earth was wrong with the dipstick method?

Nothing at all I'd say.....but it's only made worse when the manual tells you bugger all!!! It's akin to not being told that checking the oil with the dipstick two seconds after the engine has stopped turning and without pre-wiping the stick is not a very good measure at all!