Thread: Oil level

Originally Posted by 4bee

Of course their reply to that trout, would be .... "Hang on, yours is only one, so what about all the 20million we would have to fit on the production line?" (20 million may be a slight exaggeration but you get the idea)


Bean Counters! Should be shot.

For a real off roader the lack of a dipstick would most likely be a deal breaker, I know it would be for me personally.
At least the Japs still think a dipstick is mandatory and along with a few other things is why they have a larger market share than Landrover has, Screw the bean counters

I'm with you. One wonders whether the ADF had all this junk fitted on the Perenties.

"Hang on Sarge we are about to be overrun but I need to check my oil first. Oh bugger, my oil level sensor ain't working & it is showing Empty. Wish I had a dipstick."

Originally Posted by 4bee

I'm with you. One wonders whether the ADF had all this junk fitted on the Perenties.

"Hang on Sarge we are about to be overrun but I need to check my oil first. Oh bugger, my oil level sensor ain't working & it is showing Empty. Wish I had a dipstick."

Don’t reckon I would be puking the dipstick if the enemy is in sight.....although I only checked the oil on my 6x6 once a month.

I don't have a problem with the electronic oil guage per se; it's just the fact that it is not a "5 min job" to replace it. Why couldn't it be accessed externally like (as I understand; according to my neighbour) an Audi system is. What WERE the L/R engineers thinking! And whilst I am having a bitch about them (Engineers) why does the 2.7 engine have its engine oil drain plug vertical so the oil drops cleanly into the bucket, yet the 3.6 TDV8 and 3.0 V6 have them horizontally on the side so the oil hits the chassis and spews everywhere! I guess they told the apprentice engineer to design that bit and no one checked. (oh cynical me!)

Originally Posted by weeds

Don’t reckon I would be puking the dipstick if the enemy is in sight.....although I only checked the oil on my 6x6 once a month.

Sorry, I omitted to say they were a slow advancing enemy. !

I reckon that this would do the trick.

Curtain Wires At Spotlight - Durable Stretch Wires

Just dip it after it has been serviced and then make that the full mark. I guess you could get a hacksaw and make a small mark on the coil . The oil should stick in the grooves and be easy to read.
That's the theory anyway.

Regards Philip A
I thought if not that an ALDI drain cleaner should work. I use it to pull wires through grommets in the firewall.