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Flack wrote:
To be honest any mechanic worth his salt would know by just looking at the filter how to fit it,, if he does not then he should not be messing with it.
Whenever I have done work on an engine I have not touched before in the past I read up on it just to familiarize myself with it.
Flack
I totally agree but given the sheer number of engine failures it shows there a huge number of sh:censored: te mechanics out there!.
I didn't know if it was a particular failing of that LR part or not or whether it was human error?
19th Jan 2014 5:41 pm
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We don't know the reasons for those engine failures.
It is the only common factor in all of the failures I have seenMy D3 Build Thread
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Stupid question i know but are we looking at the oil filter after its taken out upside down, so the small lug we can see is at the bottom of the oil filter housing.
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19th Jan 2014 7:43 pm
Disco_Mikey
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Yes, the plastic lug goes into the filter housing, and the cap fitted over the top of it.
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Yes, the tab engages in the engine block with the cover over the top. When you remove it you tend to unscrew the cover a bit to let some oil drain and then remove the cover and filter in one unit, flip it upside down and remove the filter from the cover.
It is one of those things where assembly is not the reverse of disassembly. Well, according to my fat fingers anyway but the pros probably have a better way.
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Many thanks guy's, just wanted to make sure as i want to do oil changes every 6 months now the cars out of the warranty we brought it with, so i will do 1 myself the let the local LR dealer do one.2015 D4 HSE LUX Kaikoura Stone(sold)
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19th Jan 2014 7:57 pm
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I guess they decided to improve things for the D4 3.0L:
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This is my car gents.
I'm not responible for the oil filter.
It was a local garage.
obviously he was unaware of the lining up procedure.
This was done in july (approximately).
I think I have done about 4000mls since oil/filter change.
Ian
19th Jan 2014 9:31 pm
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19th Jan 2014 9:39 pm
rover1
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Not said anything to the garage yet.
I will wait till I have all the information in hand and see what the way forward is.
Not sure how I will convince them to accept the blame though?
Right now I just want the car up and running the way it should and get some of those little jobs done while its in this state.
Anyway its in capable hands now.
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I just think, who is going to entertain this 6 months down the road and 4/5k miles later?
its not like they have found the fault and witnessed it with their own eyes.
The joys of used cars!!!
Quietly stewing away.
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19th Jan 2014 10:06 pm
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Mmmmm, I've done at least 2 or 3 oil changes now on mine, I'll be myself doing the next one now I've read this post! 2016 RR Sport Autobiography
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19th Jan 2014 10:09 pm
chalky
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Stephen, that's Exactly what I was thinking !
Having done at least 4 myself with another due Now as an interim I'm still wondering how this has happened, I'll brush up on the Oil change how to guide in the Wiki and try and find SWMBO's angled border fork from the garage as this makes an excellent puller of the old filter, but even as I'm tapping away now I'm convincing myself its a bad idea !
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