This is a good clip showing you how to NOT check the oil level correctly in a Discovery 4. According to the owner's manual for this car, the engine needs to have reached operating temperature, then be switched off and then wait ten minutes before checking the level. The car in this clip had a cold engine when the oil was checked, therefore the reading was inaccurate.
I understand that its a nightmare to remove the oil level sensor which was designed to be externally fitted to the sump but for song god unknown reason the boffins at landrover design engineering dept installed internally INSIDE the sump which led to all sorts of problems with the command loom and plugs and oil Leakes due to the capillary action on the oil migrating through the wire outside to the jackplug and onto to your nice clean tarmac Even the people who make the sensor were amazed at landrovers stupidity 🙄
Im picking my lr4 monday coming with 114k on it full service history serviced every 10 to 15k miles so i hope to god mine gets to your mileage without needing a new engine because i read about the dreaded crank failure😬
You have literally saved me so much time. I just bought a 2011 discovery 4 and couldn’t figure out where the dipstick was so asked Bill. He didn’t know so top search on the Internet is my favourite TH-cam channel. Ok it was you guys. However you are the only reason why I have a Land Rover again. Keep up the good work especially on the disco 4.
If you go into the oil menu and it shows not available just press cancel button on steering wheel a few times and oil level is displayed saves waiting for ecu timer
That is ridiculous. They purposely want you to rely on a sensor to check your oil lever. So if the sensor goes bad you are screwed and you destroy your engine.
Thanks for the upload, had a look at this video to see how to check oil in a new to me Discovery. , what a faff; what was ever wrong with a dipstick 🤦♂
Seems odd that I'd need to wait a while when all I do on a regular car is pull up at the pumps, pop the bonnet, pull out the dipstick and check the level...no waiting period...
You are of course correct - but bear in mind that there will still be a lot of oil in the engine that needs to drain down....but that applies to the old school dipstick though....
Quick Question: Is it possible to upgrade the entire dashboard from Disco 3 to 4? Disco 3 2005 to Disco 4 2010 (The disco 4 version with similar gear knob as the disco 3)
Hi thanks for the great videos. I have a 2010 LR4 and after doing my oil change the service required light is still on, can you tell me how to reset this thank you.
sheba6779 MY2010-13 can only be reset by - dealer, iidtool, an obdII reader that is jaguar/LR compatible for clearing errors or doing a battery hard reset where you disconnect the battery and touch the positive and negative cables from the vehicle together for a minute which drains the system and resets those codes. Hard reset -Doesn't affect radio station or seat memory. MY2014-17 have a reset sequence like most other cars. Search online for that.
@@AidanRIR Hmmm!!!! Strange, definitely does not work for me. Wonder if there is a difference in the Australia D4 software. I read somewhere that it is necessary to have the bonnet open for the “Cancel” button to work. Will try again this morning.
Hello there I have a 2016 discovery 4 sdv6. In a cold start oil pressure light comes on as soon as I start the engine, for like 1-2 seconds (Currently it's on 183000kms ) any idea why it doing that ? Thanks Sahan
Hi Guys, You mention in the video that this Disco 4 is your next project. Can I ask what the plans are for the car and how often do you do these projects?. Do you upgrade and then sell the cars on?
Hi - we buy high mileage cars and use them for product developement and videos. We have so far not sold one and have a growing fleet of 4x4's. With our Disco 4 we are going to facelift to the new 2014 style front and then i think its going G4 style...
I wasn't talking about your car, but in general as so many have snapped crankshafts, must be down to people not bothering doing all this, I just bought a 2012 RRS with 74,000 and the crank had snapped , how do you explain that, it just don't happen with other cars, land rover should be held accountable ...
Lack of oil causes the shells to spin in the block seizing the crankshaft up, and bang it snaps....thought you were range rover specialist and new about this problem....
@@blueiceplus Sorry to shatter any illusions you had relating to our expertise ! If you are suggesting all the crank failures are due to the owners not checking the oil and the cars running out of oil i just dont believe it... sounds more like a design / material fault to me... but we can agree to have different views.
This is a good clip showing you how to NOT check the oil level correctly in a Discovery 4. According to the owner's manual for this car, the engine needs to have reached operating temperature, then be switched off and then wait ten minutes before checking the level. The car in this clip had a cold engine when the oil was checked, therefore the reading was inaccurate.
Seems my title was correct ... you points are well made and well presented. I will pin this comment to the top !
I understand that its a nightmare to remove the oil level sensor which was designed to be externally fitted to the sump but for song god unknown reason the boffins at landrover design engineering dept installed internally INSIDE the sump which led to all sorts of problems with the command loom and plugs and oil Leakes due to the capillary action on the oil migrating through the wire outside to the jackplug and onto to your nice clean tarmac
Even the people who make the sensor were amazed at landrovers stupidity 🙄
@@dermotconlon7204 th-cam.com/video/ZSpmG7wIovo/w-d-xo.html&ab_channel=LRTIME
You think the oil level would be appreciably different hot or cold? Only if you had left out the drain plug. Good grief.
@@fredschwartz5172 It's not a question of temperature ! Just a quantity of oil stays in cylinder heads and needs time to go down in sump.
Thanks this was really helpful for another new Discovery 4 owner who just spent 10 minutes looking for a non existent dipstick!
Thanks! I was starting to look like a complete rookie hunting under the bonnet for 20mins at the petrol station. Cheers
Im picking my lr4 monday coming with 114k on it full service history serviced every 10 to 15k miles so i hope to god mine gets to your mileage without needing a new engine because i read about the dreaded crank failure😬
Mine is going strong - towed the digger to France 2 years ago - did not even notice i had 3500~Kg on the back !
195532 miles?! Amazing
This is excellent, I had no idea but telling me not to start the engine first would have been better 😂
Ooops sorry!
You have literally saved me so much time. I just bought a 2011 discovery 4 and couldn’t figure out where the dipstick was so asked Bill. He didn’t know so top search on the Internet is my favourite TH-cam channel.
Ok it was you guys. However you are the only reason why I have a Land Rover again. Keep up the good work especially on the disco 4.
Glad to help - its not a clever system !
If you go into the oil menu and it shows not available just press cancel button on steering wheel a few times and oil level is displayed saves waiting for ecu timer
This does not work on my Discovery 4
@@chrisl4338 should work no problem on disco 4 , unless theres a level sensor issue
This video was very helpful!!! Thank you so much for posting it
Big thanks to ASE Shooting for pointing out the fault with my last video !
Thank you. This was helpful, I thought it was broke. I guess I should have read the owners manual also.
Glad it helped
A normal dipstick will never say not available.
but it so dirty !
This video is so helpful! Cheers
Really helpful, thanks you for posting this video
Amazing help. Thank you!!
Thanks for you vid boys was looking for dip stick too 🤦🏻♂️ 😂
crazy design ! what was wrong with the humble dipstick !?
That is ridiculous. They purposely want you to rely on a sensor to check your oil lever. So if the sensor goes bad you are screwed and you destroy your engine.
Thanks for the video! Big help!
Thanks for the upload, had a look at this video to see how to check oil in a new to me Discovery. , what a faff; what was ever wrong with a dipstick 🤦♂
Very helpful unlike the handbook
Seems odd that I'd need to wait a while when all I do on a regular car is pull up at the pumps, pop the bonnet, pull out the dipstick and check the level...no waiting period...
You are of course correct - but bear in mind that there will still be a lot of oil in the engine that needs to drain down....but that applies to the old school dipstick though....
Thank you!!! This was very helpful
Perfect. Thank you!
Just done my 2010 and used millers oils it has 156k on and plan on changing every 5k
Great car!…… is this one still on the road?
Another great video, thank you. Can I ask about the ECO Economy Stop start warning light please.
Thank you!!!
Great linc as always
I appreciate that
Quick Question: Is it possible to upgrade the entire dashboard from Disco 3 to 4? Disco 3 2005 to Disco 4 2010 (The disco 4 version with similar gear knob as the disco 3)
Thanks ! Helpful!
Duuuude mad thanx bruh!!!
Hi thanks for the great videos. I have a 2010 LR4 and after doing my oil change the service required light is still on, can you tell me how to reset this thank you.
sheba6779 MY2010-13 can only be reset by - dealer, iidtool, an obdII reader that is jaguar/LR compatible for clearing errors or doing a battery hard reset where you disconnect the battery and touch the positive and negative cables from the vehicle together for a minute which drains the system and resets those codes. Hard reset -Doesn't affect radio station or seat memory. MY2014-17 have a reset sequence like most other cars. Search online for that.
... Just to let you know, what you see there is not the full scale of thr oil capacity, it is just 1 Litre of oil out of 6 it has (i think).
Cheers!!!
On not available... press the cruise control cancel button twice. You don't need to wait if you do this.
This does not work on my 2013 Discovery 4
@@chrisl4338 yes it should do. I have a 2013 D4 HSE and this has worked for me
@@AidanRIR Hmmm!!!! Strange, definitely does not work for me. Wonder if there is a difference in the Australia D4 software. I read somewhere that it is necessary to have the bonnet open for the “Cancel” button to work. Will try again this morning.
Aidan, On my D4 TDV6 the double tap cancel button works provided the bonnet is unlatched. Thanks for you advice.
If that ain't the most British thing I've ever heard in my life! "We're gonna have a cup of tea" lmao!
In a world where we’ve been made to apologise for just about everything, makes me feel proud to be British.
Hello there
I have a 2016 discovery 4 sdv6.
In a cold start oil pressure light comes on as soon as I start the engine, for like 1-2 seconds
(Currently it's on 183000kms ) any idea why it doing that ? Thanks
Sahan
Change your oil to castrol magnatec 5w40 c3. If tjat dont help your oilpump is shot
Thanks for sharing.
I have a 2012 Disco 4 SDV6 and I have to wait at least 20 minutes after turning the engine off to check the oil level.
Thanks for that..
No worries!
Hi Guys, You mention in the video that this Disco 4 is your next project. Can I ask what the plans are for the car and how often do you do these projects?. Do you upgrade and then sell the cars on?
Hi - we buy high mileage cars and use them for product developement and videos. We have so far not sold one and have a growing fleet of 4x4's. With our Disco 4 we are going to facelift to the new 2014 style front and then i think its going G4 style...
I can not fine that menu on the screen, just couples think , what can do?
How many liters pleas help me
woman's son decided to fill it, kept on filling, til the oil was up by the heads, busted crank
I have witnessed engine damaged on in a land rover due to overflowing because of the Not Available function.
You must be well over 200k now?
Yes we are over 200K
How many miles now please ?
@@L663 that’s awesome
Over complicated Land Rover nonsense 🙄
How I can check the oil level for LR4 2010
This car is a Lr4 2010 !
Mate please start the video with saying don’t start the car
At least it’s a better explanation but probably way to wordy. Thanks anyway though
What a load of bollox no wonder these engines are always blowing up, it's because people are not checking the oil...….
Strange comment to write on a video showing 195K miles.... on its original engine... it now over 200K
I wasn't talking about your car, but in general as so many have snapped crankshafts, must be down to people not bothering doing all this, I just bought a 2012 RRS with 74,000 and the crank had snapped , how do you explain that, it just don't happen with other cars, land rover should be held accountable ...
@@blueiceplus Hi - not sure the crank snapped is related to the oil - sounds more like a material problem with the crank material.
Lack of oil causes the shells to spin in the block seizing the crankshaft up, and bang it snaps....thought you were range rover specialist and new about this problem....
@@blueiceplus Sorry to shatter any illusions you had relating to our expertise ! If you are suggesting all the crank failures are due to the owners not checking the oil and the cars running out of oil i just dont believe it... sounds more like a design / material fault to me... but we can agree to have different views.
Thanks for the info! Great help