Oil level

[Chops]

G’day guys, driving the car the other day, Leeanne had a msg come up that said I think 🤔 low oil. Orange warning ⚠️ light came up on the dash. She pulled over immediately and switched the car off, and rang me.
Being literally 2 minutes up the road, I told her to drive it home. I’m fairly vigilant with watching for smoke etc whilst driving, and there’s definitely no oil on the driveway.
I checked the oil level, all good. Full to the brim even, according to the electronic gauge.

Coming back from town last night, my turn on the wheel, same deal,,,

So, it’s quite warm up here in the Albury Wodonga region at the moment, but, this also sort of coinsides with the Airbag warning ⚠️ light coming on intermittently whilst up here too. I still haven’t been able to catch that one to check yet it either.
The cars being organised to be serviced by Greg down in Melb in about two weeks if all works well,,, but in the meantime, anyone got any ideas.

TIA cheers guys.

[grey_ghost]

Yeah - give it to me and buy a new one.

[scarry]

No dipstick

If the sender in the sump needs changing hopefully it’s under warranty,as it’s a major job

[DiscoJeffster]

You wouldn’t be the first to have had the sump oil level sensor play up, though it’s relatively rare.

[Hugh Jars]

Gidday Chops,

I was getting the red caption with an urgent message like ‘oil dangerously low, refill immediately’ or similar.

I shut it down for a few minutes and checked the level. Indicator says almost full.

It happened a few times, and eventually went back under warranty for a body off replacement of the sensor. LR didn’t tell me whether they replaced the harness (it was dependent on whether the sensor leaked oil into the harness or not). What they did say was the oil level was almost full when they did the job. That was reassuring
MY 16.5 SDV6

Good luck!

[matti4556]

Body Off to replace a sensor!? Great design that one. What's that doing for our GDP
Are there any analogue sensor kits (dipstick) that can be retrofitted to these engines? Sounds like a business opportunity to me.
Matti

[discomatt69]

Its not a body off job but the front diff does need to come out is my understanding of it from all the research I did before buying the D4.

Why o why can't it just have a ****ing dip stick !!!!????

[trout1105]

Its not a body off job but the front diff does need to come out is my understanding of it from all the research I did before buying the D4.

Why o why can't it just have a ****ing dip stick !!!!????

Its because Landrovers target market doesn't like to get that dirty oil on their manicured fingers and most of them wouldn't know where to find a dipstick anyway so why bother fitting one in the first place
My 2012 Navara has an oil sensor that displays the level on startup But it also has a dipstick, Why couldn't Landrover do the same with a much more costly 2012 vehicle?

[PhilipA]

Haven't they got an oil "suck up" tube ?
Surely someone could come up with a dipstick that goes down the "suck up" tube.

Regards Philip A

[trout1105]

Haven't they got an oil "suck up" tube ?
Surely someone could come up with a dipstick that goes down the "suck up" tube.

Regards Philip A

I am pretty sure that's how it works on my 115hp Suzuki outboard