After not putting enough oil in my pride and joy.... I have seized my enguine. After tons of diagnostic work.... I have been told I need to either buy a second hand.... been in accident.... no damage done type engine, or a reconditioned or recondition my own....

It's a 2005 model. Great condition... apart from the obvious. Lol

Another option would be to sell to a breakers yard or strip privately

Any suggestions.... I wouldn't even know what it's worth...

Help lol

Without an engine, you'd be lucky for £2k

Can get a Jag 2.7 engine for a couple of k Bodsys Brake Bible
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If you want rid of the car as is, id be interested

On the other hand, if you want it repaired, I can also help out with that

Were you changing the oil and didn't put enough in or dis the oil just get low?

If the former - did you change the oil filter? If so - did you put it in correctly - the little knob at the bottom has to go in its hole - if not, oil flow can be blocked or restricted causing oil starvation to the engine and failure.

I guess it does not matter now as it is too late but the cause may have been a crushed oil filter rather than low oil - after all with low oil, enough to cause a problem, the oil pressure light would have been on an pretty obvious. 07MY RRS TDV6
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Disco_Mikey wrote:

If you want rid of the car as is, id be interested

On the other hand, if you want it repaired, I can also help out with that

garrycol wrote:

Were you changing the oil and didn't put enough in or dis the oil just get low?

If the former - did you change the oil filter? If so - did you put it in correctly - the little knob at the bottom has to go in its hole - if not, oil flow can be blocked or restricted causing oil starvation to the engine and failure.

I guess it does not matter now as it is too late but the cause may have been a crushed oil filter rather than low oil - after all with low oil, enough to cause a problem, the oil pressure light would have been on an pretty obvious.

you'd better don't drive a car that needs caring. go for a lada or beatle. i know a guy/student time, who had een beatle ( Volkswagen) with a air cooled engine. He drove it for 10 years without ever checking or changing oil, it started every morning even in winter.  RRS 3.0 SDV6 HSE Lux
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Hog wrote:

He drove it for 10 years without ever checking or changing oil

Do Land Rovers need engine oil changing? I thought their self administering underbody anti-corrosion coating meant they just need the oil topped up, hence always fresh! It fairly stops my drive from rusting too  13MY Range Rover Sport Autobiography SDV6 - mine
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I can vouch that "Land Rovers" do need oil in their transfer cases............. after driving the front wheels of my 90 into an overgrown and invisible drainage ditch with a big rock just were the transfer case sump was, I drove it more than 100 miles and thought "ummmm it really doesn't want to go very well" then the speedo stopped working just about 1 mile from the indie's workshop. I parked it in their yard, booked it in handed over the keys and said to fix it. Couple of weeks later I got a phone call asking what I had been doing as they couldn't shift the 90 without the aid of a very large fork lift and then a couple of winches and snatch blocks to get it on the ramp.............. there was a 1p piece size hole in the transfer case base, no oil in it and one seized up set of mechanicals inside - it had got hot enough in there to melt bits together and they set solid when everything cooled down. £1100 later it was back on the Scottish hillsides having fun and the transfer case works really well. Problem is that before the seizure my Defender NEVER dripped oil on the drive, now I keep a large sheet of cardboard under it when it is parked up to absorb the drips that it marks it's territory with. 2020 Pangea Green 1st Edition D240 New Defender 110 is here and loving it
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Tina04 wrote:

Disco_Mikey wrote:

If you want rid of the car as is, id be interested

On the other hand, if you want it repaired, I can also help out with that

I've decided to get rid as I have found another I've fallen in love with 😍

I've tried to pm you but not allowed as I'm a new member lol....

If you inbox me I can discuss what I've been offered already... 👍

PM received

A friend had a 1800cc Toyota Corolla and he used to drive it until the oil pressure light came on and then topped up the oil - he thought the "oil Light" was like a low fuel light and was telling him it needed to refill the oil (like he would the fuel) - he did not realize it indicated low oil pressure.

Didn't not seem to damage the engine but certainly not best practice. 07MY RRS TDV6
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It must be OK to drive until the warning light comes on, otherwise LR would have provided a dip stick, surely??!!!!!

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JOCK55 wrote:

It must be OK to drive until the warning light comes on, otherwise LR would have provided a dip stick, surely??!!!!!

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