[matthewb0051]

Last week I was changing the oil in our Land Rover LR4 (Discovery 4). No issues, everything went as planned since we owned an LR3 before so fairly similar procedure except for the filter. I get to the point to check level after adding 8 litres and can't find a dipstick anywhere. I'm sure I amused the neighbors looking all over for the stupid thing.

Some internet research later and a look thru the manual and I confirmed that there is no dipstick. Huh? How in the name of all that is holy am I supposed to check the oil level?

It gets better. To check the oil level, you access a menu in the display screen that takes you to service menu and buried in there is oil level display. No you can't have this display all the time, you can only check it after the vehicle has been turned off for about 10 minutes because otherwise the level will not show up. Oh it will display the gauge but no reading will be given.

Worst of all: up to the time I changed the oil there were no warning lights for low oil level. When I measured out the oil I took out of the vehicle I was around 4 litres short. Hopefully this is a bullet dodged. I read a internet post on this where a guy lost his engine same way and it only had 800ml of oil ...no warning light.

Vehicle is running great and I've checked the level a few times since. No issues.

I would prefer a dipstick thank you. This is Land Rover number 5 for us and we love them in case anyone was questioning that or suggesting a brand change.