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DG wrote:
Hands up who checks their oil every 600 miles like you are supposed to do ...not hard is it people ?
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1st Feb 2018 4:48 pm
mallo
Member Since: 10 Feb 2009
Location: Jersey
Posts: 351
Gareth wrote:
Where would you drill the hole?
In the engine somewhere!!!!!!
No on a serious note is there not somewhere where the dipstick is on the older D3's I thought the engine was the same but I maybe being a bit naive??
Also i haven't looked close enough to see where the dipstick goes on the earlier ones.....
1st Feb 2018 5:20 pm
Pete K
Member Since: 15 Jan 2016
Location: GL
Posts: 10361
you would think if you can get a suction tube down there, then a braided wire would do down.
Just need to know
1. will it hit on something and get mashed up
2. what the levels mean
I guess the real solution is like mercedes use on the older gearboxes. You have a service dip stick.
So you only put it in to check the level and then remove it again.
I guess if you have just had it services you could make your own level marks
powerful need to pull their finger out and produce something useful
1st Feb 2018 7:19 pm
Gary_P
Member Since: 03 May 2016
Location: Kent
Posts: 1520
DOH ! I checked and you're all right. You can check from cold. I think I just discounted that because the advice is to run the engine then check after 10 mins to get the reading that matters.Gary
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1st Feb 2018 9:51 pm
DSL Keeper of the wheelie bin
Member Since: 11 May 2006
Location: Off again! :-)
Posts: 72776
Same here, every day is a school day.
1st Feb 2018 10:00 pm
M3DPO
Member Since: 22 Sep 2010
Location: Notts.
Posts: 8073
Pete K wrote:
you would think if you can get a suction tube down there, then a braided wire would do down.
Just need to know
1. will it hit on something and get mashed up
2. what the levels mean
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.......................powerful need to pull their finger out and produce something useful
The suction pipe is already fitted, that is where mine has a leak(look at my photo above) it comes from beside the sump drain plug to the top of the engine and fitted with a cap, the service suction pipe is connected to it opposite side of the engine to the old dip stick and a similar height.
I don't think the issue is a dipstick or not it is the fact the system now used is not fully automomatic as part of the system check like the TPM system is, after all everything is there to do it, it only needs new software, perhaps a profitable job for Pat at GAP to look into for the Iid tool It can when others can't,
It will when others won't,
It goes where others don't.
1st Feb 2018 10:13 pm
adam
Member Since: 20 Sep 2005
Location: Home and Happy
Posts: 6917
Or just use the buttons on the steering wheel everyday from cold to check the level is consistent
1st Feb 2018 10:50 pm
Skynet
Member Since: 23 Jul 2014
Location: Melksham, Wiltshire
Posts: 868
I wish that they still fitted oil pressure meters Dave
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