how often do you check your engine oil

its more important to check the oil for things like oil contamination and water contamination.

typically you'll know if its loosing oil or burning it from other evidence (wife complaining of black spots on drive way, inability to see out the back window or the engine revs jumping inexplicably followed by clouds of white smoke as the tacho hits the end peg but the engine sounds like its revving harder than a rotary)

how longs your engine going to last if the oil isnt oil any more but a 50/50 mix of diesel and oil or coolant and oil?

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Originally Posted by Blknight.aus

its more important to check the oil for things like oil contamination and water contamination.

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Yes I check the oil once a week, not for the level but to ensure it doesn't contain diesel or coolant or windscreen washer fluid. With a LR nothing is impossible.

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Originally Posted by CountP

Yes I check the oil once a week, not for the level but to ensure it doesn't contain diesel or coolant or windscreen washer fluid. With a LR nothing is impossible.

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That's a novel idea, of course I've probably just jinxed myself now :p

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Originally Posted by Eevo

Given that our cars never leak or burn oil, why would we need to check???

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As mentioned before, it's just as important to check the level doesn't rise, or fall alarmingly. Murphys law states the time you get lazy, & don't check, could be the time it ends up in tears. My routine of checking gives me confidence the vehicle is in good shape. I don't care what anyone else does. That is up to them. My TD5 has 360000 KM's, & doesn't miss a beat, Bob

I check if I've lifted he bonnet. Mind you that may just be for the next oil change.

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Originally Posted by bob10

As mentioned before, it's just as important to check the level doesn't rise, or fall alarmingly. Murphys law states the time you get lazy, & don't check, could be the time it ends up in tears. My routine of checking gives me confidence the vehicle is in good shape. I don't care what anyone else does. That is up to them. My TD5 has 360000 KM's, & doesn't miss a beat, Bob

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I think you missed the joke

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Originally Posted by Eevo

I think you missed the joke

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I think he did :p
I check mine quite sporadically, I might check it twice a week or twice a month.
Basically whenever I have the bonnet up.

When I am on a trip like the canning I check daily, plus go over all critical parts with a spanner.

When I was driving the IIA coast-coast I even checked GB and TC oil levels daily - on many landy boxes you can get oil migration without any leaks - plus the IIA box has no oil seal on the GB input shaft...

Driving around the burbs, then only when I lift the bonnet - which is every 1-2 weeks.

I get lazy in town and paranoid out of town, so it's once-in-a-while for the former and every day for the latter.

I do it every time i get diesel say round the 800k mark i also do all the other fluids at the same time as well as a visual and shake of stuff under the bonnet .