Thread: DPF??

Originally Posted by Grappler

What is the service interval of your vehicle?

My Defender came with 3 years free service. It has annual/20,000km iservice nterval, But I still get a letter recommending an intermediate service, six monthly, which they expect payment for.
Thats why I use the the Total Quartz and a genuine filter for the intermediate oil change. I use the same oil in my RRS TDV6

I don't know. I haven't taken delivery yet!

Always like to have a litre or so on hand for tops ups, any car, new or otherwise.
So what's the correct castrol oil for non DPF cars? I thought the required magnatec or edge professional meeting the 913-c spec, was unavailable to the public here in low quantities, unless branded LR from a dealer?

Originally Posted by Jimlr

Always like to have a litre or so on hand for tops ups, any car, new or otherwise.
So what's the correct castrol oil for non DPF cars? I thought the required magnatec or edge professional meeting the 913-c spec, was unavailable to the public here in low quantities, unless branded LR from a dealer?

Well this is interesting, if you try to look up the Castrol recommended oil, it tells you to call technical assistance.

Castrol Australia - NetLube

It seems Castrol and LR have formed a partnership where LR is pushing the Castrol brand.

Reminds me of John Laws and the cash for comment scandal... Then there was the Steve Vizard parody of Lawsy and his Valvoline add "you know what I mean"...

Check out this video on YouTube:

[ame=http://youtu.be/xphQI1kn380]Fast Forward - John Laws. - YouTube[/ame]

Try this one. At least they give you the info. Used this site for my old Pajero NS series diesel.
Lubricants: Oil Finder - Caltex Australia

Originally Posted by BJM

We have recently been looking at moving from our current TDi Ford Territory into a Discovery 4 and I have found something I think is interesting for this thread.

Every 2014 TDV6 I looked at was complied as Euro 5 and had a DPF.
Every 2014 SDV6 I looked at still had the F in the VIN, no DPF and was complied Euro 4.

As we've had trouble with DPF in other brands we've had in the past it made our decision to go for an SD over a TD that much easier.

Thanks to the people who have posted this info up because it has helped me a lot over the last few weeks.

That makes sense. Euro 5/6 regulations were written to force manufacturers to fit DPFs, so all euro 5/6 will have a DPF, whereas manufacturers usually managed to comply with euro 4 without fitting a dpf.

Originally Posted by JonW

Try this one. At least they give you the info. Used this site for my old Pajero NS series diesel.
Lubricants: Oil Finder - Caltex Australia

So where do you get this? Found it on google...

Crankcase
HAVOLINE ENERGY EF 5W-30

Service Refill Capacity: 5.7* Litres.

I'll check google...
Edit. Looks like Sydney and minimum 20 litres..or Adelaide, 320 litres hmmm...
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Hopefully not too late to help you but try Fuchs oil. I contacted their technical group and sent them the LR oil spec and checked independently online it meets/exceeds the LR specification for DPF fitted vehicles (Titan GT1 pro C1) and they market other specification oils as well for non-DPF I bought mine from Burton Auto 5l containers $42.00

Originally Posted by sniegy

Hi all
All 2.7's in Aus do not have DPF.
Was only introduced for the 3.0l.
If u have a 3.0l, your vin will have a G if u have a DPF.
Eg: SALLAAAG incl. DPF, SALLAAAF no DPF.

Cheers.

goddammit (hope this is not swearing) but I wish I had read this before today (whether my D4 had a DPF or not).

Long story short - the low engine oil warning came on today while out for a Sunday drive near Beerwah Qld (only 18k on the clock - not ready for the first service yet).
A check of the service menu screen suggested the oil level was below minimum.
As a result, I could not for sure work out the correct oil purchase to do a top up (Land Rover Assist could not tell me if I had a DPF or not - the correct oil spec to buy depends on this info).

So now the D4 will be towed back to the dealer on Monday and I had to get a Taxi home.
There was a slight chance I could have purchased the correct oil near Beerwah but for the lack of knowledge by Land Rover Assist (and me for not reading sniegy's post before today) I could not do so.
So this issue has now cost Land Rover about $1K or more.
The Taxi alone was $300.
Anyway, I am home now and will take my 2.0L TDI VW Jetta to the shops in search for the correct oil (for next time)

On Monday the Dealer will need to work out why the oil level dropped to below minimum.
I suspect that this is normal for a new engine to use a bit of oil in the first few months of its' life.

This is what happened with my (then new) Jetta about 8 years ago but at least I was able to work out which oil to buy, do a top up and keep going to the 1st service. (VW Assist was on the ball and most helpful)