Thread: how often is too often (servicing) - some questions

Originally Posted by veebs

I check my oil by pressing a few buttons on the steering wheel - from that perspective the oil always looks pretty sweet

I assumed the oil analysis would give early indications of the wear on various components in the engine - the same way it does for a caterpillar haul truck, for example.
I had the romantic notion that you could, for example, know that some widget in the back of the block needed changing long before you found out the hard way, after a catastrophic failure half way along the canning stock route...

The best thing oil analysis does is catch fuel, glycol and dust problems before they become a problem.
It's less and less these days about "what's the best oil"

Unfortunately oil analysis doesn't catch catastrophic failures.
Parts can just fail, and it's crap when they do, but it will tell you if, for example a bearing is on the way out.
Which one it is, eg. cam, big end, little end, rocker bush or main is another question.....

Originally Posted by shanegtr

I do all my own servicing so its pretty simple for me to do. I use ALS for my oil samples and you can either by the samples individual or in boxes of 10.

Shane, was it your D3 that had the highish Fe diff oil levels ?

Cheers.

Originally Posted by scarry

Dipstick any day for me,nice and easy,and shouldn't fail🙂

Dipstick?
Disgusting things drip oil all over the nice clean engine bay and on your clothes and shoes.
We cant have that on our soccer run.

Originally Posted by RHS58

Dipstick?
Disgusting things drip oil all over the nice clean engine bay and on your clothes and shoes.
We cant have that on our soccer run.

Oh come on, that client base wouldn't know how to open the bonnet! 😃

Originally Posted by rick130

Oh come on, that client base wouldn't know how to open the bonnet! 😃

Open the bonnet?
They'd be troubled finding the latch, which LR has hidden on the passenger side just for them.