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SteveGoodz:

--- Quote from: "matstrooper" ---can someone please tell me how to check the oil on the auto box properly please
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Quote from P113 of Discovery Owners Handbook:
"Ensure vehicle is resting on level ground then select 'P' (Park) and start engine. With the engine running at idle speed and both foot brake and handbrake applied, move the selector lever to position '1' and then back to position 'P'.

Withdraw the dipstick from the filler tube and wipe the blade clean. Reinsert the dipstick fully and withdraw again to check the level. Top-up to maintain the level between the two markings on the dipstick with a fluid meeting ATF Dexron II D specification"

There is also a comment about ambient temperature affecting the reading and that the level should be checked at an ambient temperature of 20oC ~ so you can't accurately check it until next spring  :D

Also bottom to top mark is only 0.25litres

Range Rover Blues:
Best thing to do is read the dipstick.  On my LSe it says check in neutral when cold.

Now if I run it through the gears first then the level keeps rising as the fluid runs back down, so I don't bother too much anymore, just do it once to bleed the hydraulics then let it stabilise.  Don't let it heat up though and don't be too tempted to add fluid, it's too easy to put too much in.

Conversly I used to have a Crapi Auto and that was in park, when hot after selecting all the gears at least twice.  Easier to read though :?

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