2012 Range Rover Vogue TDV8 (L322)

[tobinen]

Yes, RH one does all the work, LH only over 2,500 RPM I believe.

[tobinen]

Oil change done today at 155,088 miles, though I made a meal of an easy job. My £10 Lidl oil pump would not suck a drop but I may have blundered by hooking it up to the vacuum hand pump tank and that may have been too air tight for it - not sure. Anyway, two pumps by hand and away it started. I used the same pump as Sam's M&M. 9.5 litres out/in - I had to empty the tank as it was full at 9 litres.

Costs are (everything from eBay bar the Lidl pump):

Nielsen hand pump £48
Oil from S&A £85 (enough for two changes)
Mann oil filter £16 IIRC
Lidl pump £10
36mm socket £5-ish



Pump ran OK but not a drop sucked. May be my fault though.



Hand action worked fine

[tobinen]

I checked the oil level this morning and it's one notch below maximum so all good. I reset the service required message after finding the two pedal process.

It's definitely losing coolant though, another 0.75l to top up.

[tobinen]

The coolant bottle is nearly empty after driving around 80 miles to/from work this week. I've bought an oil analysis from Oil Labs so I'll send it off later and should have a report next week.

[tobinen]

The oil report is in. I am not sure what to make of it just yet but this was for 10,000 miles.

[tobinen]

It nearly overheated today but I caught it in time. Same scenario as before except this time I have a working heater.

Motorway at 80 on cruise. I came off and did a U turn to go back the way I came. Gave it the gun through the revs and then set cruise. 1 minute later the cruise switched off uncommanded and the temp gauge is at 3/4. I put the heater on max and the gauge returned to half as normal.

I cannot think what is going wrong but it's bloody annoying.

[tobinen]

Well, it didn't take long! The classic warning message. I guess now is the time to source a GAP tool.

[tobinen]

Ok thanks, good to know. I will be removing the doughnut once I have one of my other cars back on the road.

[tobinen]

I've been out for a drive and no errors present, it drove as normal. I put some fuel in it as it was nearly empty and I think I read somewhere it needs a quarter tank minimum to regen. I am not sure if that is true though.

Battery report:
12.07v engine off
14.60v at idle