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Nope. 180 miles driven - the bulk of that was 2 x 75 mile motorway runs - and the distance to the next service has dropped by 1000 miles ! That would suggest <3000 miles between services. Crazy.
Range Rover L405 2017 4.4SD V8 too regular oil changes needed
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Nope. 180 miles driven - the bulk of that was 2 x 75 mile motorway runs - and the distance to the next service has dropped by 1000 miles ! That would suggest <3000 miles between services. Crazy.
It depends on the rest of the journeys - a couple of good ones don't counteract lots of short, soot-building ones in terms of oil dilution. It's also worth checking live values for the various EGT sensors and the differential pressure sensor to make sure they're all plausible - just to be sure...
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OK, so I'm going to update this again, because it's absurd. Today I had to go to the office - 80 miles each way of almost entirely motorway. This is (realistically) the best possible use case for an engine. So I checked the service countdown before I left - 14,250 miles. Two lots of 80 miles later, it says 13,450 ! So 160 miles of low intensity motorway driving consumes (interestingly) exactly 5x that from the service indicator. Whereas the DEF has refill has dropped by *less* than the actual mileage.
This is my first Range Rover and three weeks into ownership, honestly, the amount of stupid in it is doing my head in. I was lured into buying because of the style and the Britishness. It does have reasonably nice leather. And a split tailgate. And Range Rover is an icon. But living with it, it's clear the nav / infotainment was put together by six people that didn't talk to each other, the seats were designed by Quasimodo, and the "amazing ride quality" is just very very soft primary ride with fancy ARBs to stop it falling over when you go around a corner, coupled to stiff secondary to pretend it has some feedback. Which it doesn't, sadly.
So unless I have a sudden epiphany in the next couple of weeks it's getting chopped in and I'm going back to "zee Germans" because I've never had this kind of nonsense from those guys.
Anyone want to buy an extremely disappointing 2017 SDV8 Autobiography ??
This is my first Range Rover and three weeks into ownership, honestly, the amount of stupid in it is doing my head in. I was lured into buying because of the style and the Britishness. It does have reasonably nice leather. And a split tailgate. And Range Rover is an icon. But living with it, it's clear the nav / infotainment was put together by six people that didn't talk to each other, the seats were designed by Quasimodo, and the "amazing ride quality" is just very very soft primary ride with fancy ARBs to stop it falling over when you go around a corner, coupled to stiff secondary to pretend it has some feedback. Which it doesn't, sadly.
So unless I have a sudden epiphany in the next couple of weeks it's getting chopped in and I'm going back to "zee Germans" because I've never had this kind of nonsense from those guys.
Anyone want to buy an extremely disappointing 2017 SDV8 Autobiography ??
With regard to the service indicator, if you maintained that type of driving, you'd find the rate of decline would slow dramatically, DEF usage is also still in it's 'learning cycle' - remember that there is no 'factory reset' that can be done so the vehicle is still un-learning the previous owner and the traders usage. You're only three weeks in, it doesn't happen overnight.
It does sound like a mismatch, you want the badge, but also want the 'performance' of a road car, an L405 simply will never be something to chuck around like your average German rep-mobile, it's meant to be a calmer, more mannered environment, not something that gets angry at every other car 'because it's in front of me'.
I suspect you're a Wermacht staff car driver at heart - as well as JLR, I've worked for three German brands and they have their own special kind of nonsense, different to JLR, but nonsense bordering on crass stupidity at times that their drivers just seem to accept as 'the way it is' (as do most JLR drivers to be fair) - such as tyre skip and really high DEF usage from Mercs. DSG (dog-sh!t gearbox) and EGR coolers blocking with DEF from VWG and, well, where do you want to start with BMW? electrics?
It does sound like a mismatch, you want the badge, but also want the 'performance' of a road car, an L405 simply will never be something to chuck around like your average German rep-mobile, it's meant to be a calmer, more mannered environment, not something that gets angry at every other car 'because it's in front of me'.
I suspect you're a Wermacht staff car driver at heart - as well as JLR, I've worked for three German brands and they have their own special kind of nonsense, different to JLR, but nonsense bordering on crass stupidity at times that their drivers just seem to accept as 'the way it is' (as do most JLR drivers to be fair) - such as tyre skip and really high DEF usage from Mercs. DSG (dog-sh!t gearbox) and EGR coolers blocking with DEF from VWG and, well, where do you want to start with BMW? electrics?
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If you want reliable, Toyota is the way to go.OK, so I'm going to update this again, because it's absurd. Today I had to go to the office - 80 miles each way of almost entirely motorway. This is (realistically) the best possible use case for an engine. So I checked the service countdown before I left - 14,250 miles. Two lots of 80 miles later, it says 13,450 ! So 160 miles of low intensity motorway driving consumes (interestingly) exactly 5x that from the service indicator. Whereas the DEF has refill has dropped by *less* than the actual mileage.
This is my first Range Rover and three weeks into ownership, honestly, the amount of stupid in it is doing my head in. I was lured into buying because of the style and the Britishness. It does have reasonably nice leather. And a split tailgate. And Range Rover is an icon. But living with it, it's clear the nav / infotainment was put together by six people that didn't talk to each other, the seats were designed by Quasimodo, and the "amazing ride quality" is just very very soft primary ride with fancy ARBs to stop it falling over when you go around a corner, coupled to stiff secondary to pretend it has some feedback. Which it doesn't, sadly.
So unless I have a sudden epiphany in the next couple of weeks it's getting chopped in and I'm going back to "zee Germans" because I've never had this kind of nonsense from those guys.
Anyone want to buy an extremely disappointing 2017 SDV8 Autobiography ??
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