Thread: How much oil

It would seem the acuracy of these guages is poor and overfililling is likely.
Checked mine again and it was full. time for the oil to srttle is greater than the time allows. Leave longer and the reading changes. This does not bode well if the engine is overfilled.
If it is overfilled will the indicator go above tthe full mark?

Originally Posted by mowog

The Answer to How Much Oil...

1.1 Liters were put in by the dealer.

So that's a little less than 20% of all your oil consumed in a few 1000ks....on a big road trip you could drink the tank dry in a few weeks.

Can that be right?

My D4 is now on an oil monitoring program. Based on the consumption it would use around 4L for 25000klm.

Originally Posted by mowog

My D4 is now on an oil monitoring program. Based on the consumption it would use around 4L for 25000klm.

Cheers.

Hi Guys,
Id like to throw this question out there,
My D4 3.0lt doesn't have a DPF and the correct oil specified is the powerflow C1 5-30 which is designed to be used with engines with DPF filters as the oil is designed to burn off and reduce clogging the DPF.
So why can't I use the standard Castrol Edge 5-30 (full synthetic) as I don't have the DPF?
I used this in my diesel YD25 Pathfinder for 6 years and no problem.
LRTech 23 your thoughts?

After reading this thread when it was "active" I went out and checked my oil level. It was two notches down from full. Since on this thread I saw that dealers often leave it at two notches down to be sure it isn't over filled, I didn't stress.

Now about 1200km later I see it is three notches down. This is still the full side of the centre line so really nothing to worry about but at this rate it is not going to make it to even the optional health check at 13000km

So how low should I let it go before I call up the dealer and book it in for a check and top up?

cheers

These monitors are only as accurate as the time the engine has been off.

Mine was down to just above half but the next time I checked the engine had been off longer and it was full.

I think the dealers know how inaccurate these were.
I also think mine was overfilled on pre delivery as I has a lot of black soot on the car until recently?

Thanks. It has been off for about 5 hours so I would have thought it must be fairly settled by now but I'll check before starting it again (or I'll try to remember anyway)