I’ve just bought the thing for the wife. Quite a lot of car for £3750, and very tidy. The PO said he’s done a service, but I think I’ll do another one, just in case, and because I always do servicing in July. I have a Haynes manual - often a bit crap, but one or two tricky jobs and it’s paid for itself. Wiring diagrams occasionally useful.
Oil and filters, doddle job, fit filter into the engine housing first making 110 percent the tlittle tit on the new filter engages with the corresponding hole in the housing then fit the cap, do it the wrong way and crush the filter and scrap the engine.
Diffs top-up, hey are not like old motors ie fill to spill they take a specific amount of oil, front is summat silly like 0.65 litres! rear option is rear ediff which takes a different oil again.
T-box top-up, land rover specific oil due to the electronic clutch widget holds 1.5 litres, oil from landrovers, people have used other makes but as you are only ever going to change it once all the time you own the car why chance it?
Auto box fluid change - I read something about an upgraded pan/filter - worth doing? well worth some research, some just drain the oil and refill, others do a flush at the oil cooler, easy enough, and some pay for a machine to do a flush.
The metal pan is not really an upgrade it just means the filer is seperate and not a one piece filter/sump affair like the plastic one, which you have to break to get off or remove loads of parts which if you refit plastic one makes it big job, my advice would be to change the oil a couple of times and leave it alone, Mannol AG55 off of ebay
Very slight lumpiness on cold start. Short journeys - injectors, duff battery, ignore? need a diagnostic tool to see what the injetcor balance figures are Icarsoft 100 quid IID 400quid.
Low coolant warning despite coolant OK - change/clean sensor/check wiring?, float in tank sticking, new tank required.
FBH has been unplugged, as it “makes loads of smoke under the bonnet”. I like to have everything working. Strip and clean? possible strip and clean, but a good long run test might clear it out, bodge way is whilst running to spray some brake cleaner in the air intake for the fbh, have a fire ext handy!
It fires up on auto when external temp is under 7 degc so you wont see it running for a few more months yet, in the winter it pretty much runs all the time the engine is running.
Worth getting some sort of diagnostic reader? Useful for auto box fluid temp, too.
