Discovered a cheapish way of doing a 6000 mile oil change on a tdv8.

Buy your own oil! And then get the dealership to do the change! They originally quoted me about £220 for the privelidge.
Can I bring my own oil I asked. Yes of course you can, no problems with that, it needs to be was-mcc-913-b

Price for labour and filter £69.
Price for 10 litres of shell helix ultra professional af from Ecp £58

So they charged roughly £55 for the swap given the filter is a few quids. Which to be honest is better than lying under the car getting a face full of oil! There is nothing that can't be fixed with a hammer😜😜
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much quicker with them using a ramp..

i got charged £175 from th whites for my SC 4.2.. ... - .- -.




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And they have washed and vacced it too...... Which is worth a tenner....

Bargain.

for hunters again. There is nothing that can't be fixed with a hammer😜😜
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i didnt get a wash  ... - .- -.




Y. O. L. O.
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Thats a bloody good price

do you have to be under them to do the oil and filter change?
i am very much a fan of vacuum extracting the oil for a normal service[sometimes get more out too...]
but yes if its cheap enoiugh getting somebody else to do is a good idea lol

You don't have a choice when it comes to the 4.4TDV8... They have to be vacuumed out

yep, and that means main dealer only here! l=Oo\________/oO=l l:OolΞΞΞΞΞΞΞloO:l

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That's daft Craig, how hard would it have been to put a drain plug on it! There is nothing that can't be fixed with a hammer😜😜
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i used to be an advocate of the drain plug method-but now if it can be sucked out it will be...

northernmonkeyjones wrote:

That's daft Craig, how hard would it have been to put a drain plug on it!

There is one but its so close to the subframe you can't drain the oil without an 8ft spread of oil EVERYWHERE!!!

We tend to suck um out then remove the last bit with the drain bung gets any crud out of the bottom too LR dealers DONT remove the drain bung at all and just refill with the same amount that their machine takes out!

NOT GOOD practice imho

a lot of modern cars-pd vag mitsi 4g63[modernish] for example allow more to be sucked out than can be drained due to design...i used to be an advocate of "dropping it" but the vacuum removes most debris-and when in doubt about condition the sump would be coming off anyway to check strainer etc

Cam-Tech-Craig wrote:

You don't have a choice when it comes to the 4.4TDV8... They have to be vacuumed out

i have the 6 litre version-works brill well worth the cash

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northernmonkeyjones wrote:

There is one but its so close to the subframe you can't drain the oil without an 8ft spread of oil EVERYWHERE!!!