Oil level issue

Hello
I have just bought a Range Rover L322 Westminster with 75000 miles on it, I know I'm going to regret this but! how do I make oil level monitor show me a reading? I have brought it in from a run, parked on level concrete and waited 10 mins + but all I get is "oil level unavailable" Can anybody advise me what I'm doing wrong?
Thanks in anticipation
Malc

you bought an L322

Don’t know, what year / engine ?

holidaychicken said:

Don’t know, what year / engine ?

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Good call.

Sorry about that, 2012, 4.4 TDV8

Problem sorted, after standing for 2 hours I got a reading!

I use the analogue method

What the **** is wrong with a dipstick?

Damn, really boils my ****.

Why do modern manufactures keep getting more retarded as time goes on!!

Dipstick far more reliable, my sports got the electronicy thingy and gives a different reading everyday, I think it goes up and down in sync with the weather barometer

Henry_b said:

What the **** is wrong with a dipstick?

Damn, really boils my ****.

Why do modern manufactures keep getting more retarded as time goes on!!

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to keep up with the public

jamesmartin said:

to keep up with the public

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The public are conned into believing they want this stuff Jobs was a master of it.

tanis8472 said:

I use the analogue method

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There is no analogue method on the modern stuff.

Henry_b said:

What the **** is wrong with a dipstick?

Damn, really boils my ****.

Why do modern manufactures keep getting more retarded as time goes on!!

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Too simple. the electronics development departments are out of control.

Luckily we will probably evolve ourselves into oblivion which is nice.
Imagine how big the first L322 would have been with half a dozen of these ECUs.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analytical_Engine

Totally agree with all of the above!! Dipstick has worked for all this time! They just assume nobody wants to open their bonnets!!

Blastapest2 said:

Totally agree with all of the above!! Dipstick has worked for all this time! They just assume nobody wants to open their bonnets!!

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Few people bother to use the dipstick to check the oil, and even fewer will bother to use the inconvenient electronic check. My old Citroen used to give on oil level check every time the ignition was turned on with no electronickry.

We're all told we want self driving cars apparently - don't leave home without one. And electric ones as well.

So here's the thing.

Where is the infrastructure to supply the electrical energy that will replace oil - answer there isn't.

Well this thread got deep

Fergie46 said:

We're all told we want self driving cars apparently - don't leave home without one. And electric ones as well.

So here's the thing.

Where is the infrastructure to supply the electrical energy that will replace oil - answer there isn't.

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You are right about the infrastructure and it cannot be provided in less than 20/30 years. Also, electricity generation is more polluting than a modern diesel engine. I'm all in favour of Hybrids so you can cut the IC engine when crawling in traffic or in the city.

There will come a time when a special Dealer tool is needed to open a bonnet to stop us mucking about with the innards.

Col