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pinemarten



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Does anyone like not having a dipstick for the engine oil

I can understand having a electonic warning the oil is running low but the only way to check your oil level by eletronic means not keen. How do you know what the oil is like? How do you check your oil level if the sensor becomes faulty. Or is there a way to check the oil manually that I havn't found yet. Had my RR sport just over a month and love everything so far apart from the no dipstick.

Post #526184 Tue May 16 2017 12:29pm
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Tim in Scotland



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I think you will find 99.99% of members here would much prefer to be able to manually check their oil from time to time and not have to rely on a sensor - we all know how notoriously unreliable sensors can be............ 2020 Pangea Green 1st Edition D240 New Defender 110 is here and loving it
2018 Melting Silver Mini Countryman PHEV - soon to be replaced
2015MY Corris Grey SDv6 HSE Dynamic, the best car I have ever owned, totally reliable only a cou0le of rattles in 3 years, now no longer in my care
Also in my garage is a 1996 TDi300 Defender 90 County HT made into a fake CSW

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Tim in Scotland



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2013 Range Rover Sport SDV6 HSE Stornoway Grey

Oops double post 2020 Pangea Green 1st Edition D240 New Defender 110 is here and loving it
2018 Melting Silver Mini Countryman PHEV - soon to be replaced
2015MY Corris Grey SDv6 HSE Dynamic, the best car I have ever owned, totally reliable only a cou0le of rattles in 3 years, now no longer in my care
Also in my garage is a 1996 TDi300 Defender 90 County HT made into a fake CSW

Post #526197 Tue May 16 2017 2:32pm
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Andy K



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Its a diesel. The oil will be black

Post #526208 Tue May 16 2017 4:46pm
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squizzel



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I prefer a dip stick every time. I once had a rover 825 sterling. This had both the dip stick and a sensor, when I purchased the car, the sensor showed low oil but on the dip stick it was full. Sensor replaced (sump off) and it was fine, for 3 months then back to the same again. Very unreliable, the only reliable way is visual inspection.

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warkman



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You need to see the people who buy these Zara new, majority wouldn't open the bonnet for the three years they own it, certainly not mess about with dipsticks.
For them, a sensor is much better in between getting the dealer to service the car.

As for evoque women drivers..... Rolling with laughter Rolling with laughter Rolling with laughter Just bought a RRS 06 MY HSE TDV6 136,000 miles, to be a second car to my bland, boring Mitsubishi Outlander 68 plate 2.0 petrol 4

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Disco_Mikey



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All good and well, but surely the car should tell you when the oil is low, to prompt you to top up, instead of running itself dry of oil Rolling Eyes

Post #526215 Tue May 16 2017 6:26pm
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Andy K



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Quite.

Bet mist owners don't bother to check or don't know how to.

Post #526216 Tue May 16 2017 6:58pm
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pinemarten



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Dipsticks

Thanks for all your replies. In answer to some of them. I know the oil will be black, I want to know where it is on the dipstick, I want to know how quickly it runs off the dipstick. Most of all its fool proof. I know many people wont check them and I suspect they wont check them electonically either. That's there choice. I would like the choice of checking my oil manually.

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CANROVER



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It should be both.... One as a fancy shmancy feature to cater to the vain and the other as a functional and fool proof redundancy.

Post #526253 Wed May 17 2017 11:24am
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CANROVER



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Disco_Mikey wrote:
All good and well, but surely the car should tell you when the oil is low, to prompt you to top up, instead of running itself dry of oil Rolling Eyes


My 02 Audi A4 had an oil level sensor if it got too low and a dipstick. Perfect combination if you ask me.

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d-9



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I definitely like having a dipstick, relied upon the sensor on one of my audis and when I serviced it, discovered the low oil sensor wasn't working and it only had 2.6l in it. It should have had 6.5l.

For the record, when you check the oil with a dipstick, you are normally checking the level, not the colour Laughing

Post #526285 Wed May 17 2017 9:46pm
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Tim in Scotland



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But with a diesel the colour also helps indicate the level as you can see the level easily. My 1st RRS had a stupid PSA style dipstick with several yellow beads on it - one of the beads dropped off and was never found.............. 2020 Pangea Green 1st Edition D240 New Defender 110 is here and loving it
2018 Melting Silver Mini Countryman PHEV - soon to be replaced
2015MY Corris Grey SDv6 HSE Dynamic, the best car I have ever owned, totally reliable only a cou0le of rattles in 3 years, now no longer in my care
Also in my garage is a 1996 TDi300 Defender 90 County HT made into a fake CSW

Post #526303 Thu May 18 2017 7:32am
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d-9



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United Kingdom 2007 Range Rover Sport TDV8 HSE Java Black

Very true, it's particularly hard to see the oil level of a petrol at night with clean oil in it, something about artificial lighting makes it go invisible.

That plastic bead either came out with an oil change or got picked up in the strainer, they collect a lot of crap.

Post #526312 Thu May 18 2017 9:55am
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