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• Discovery 6?

• I can understand a move toward an all-road MPV type thing. The capability and feature overlap between Defender and Discovery has cannibalized Discovery sales. An MPV type vehicle would be sufficiently ...
DieselRanger Replies: 9 Views: 566 Forum:General Posted: 26th Nov 2025 4:52 pm Subject: Discovery 6?

• over heating TD6

• Also check your battery. A low battery voltage often causes strange electronic errors that aren't real. If your battery is old and got cold, could have been a low voltage situation.
  
  Sadly some warn ...
DieselRanger Replies: 5 Views: 218 Forum:Faults and Fixes Posted: 26th Nov 2025 4:40 pm Subject: over heating TD6

• Oil change

• I now have to special order the recommended Castrol oil for my Td6 engine, and I add LiquiMoly MOS2 when I change it myself. My dealer adds B.G. DOC oil conditioner. Potato potahto, but the purpose is ...
DieselRanger Replies: 15 Views: 1063 Forum:Tip and Tricks Posted: 20th Nov 2025 2:46 pm Subject: Oil change

• k+n air filter

• Quite true.
DieselRanger Replies: 4 Views: 539 Forum:General Posted: 31st Oct 2025 1:32 pm Subject: k+n air filter

• k+n air filter

• You have to be careful with these. They are "high flow" yet they also mysteriously trap more dust and particulates? The latter is only true as long as you maintain them properly and don't ov ...
DieselRanger Replies: 4 Views: 539 Forum:General Posted: 29th Oct 2025 1:59 pm Subject: k+n air filter

• Adblue filling

• I have an old 1.5L screw top filler bottle from my Volkswagen days, which I cut the bottom off of to use as my filler funnel. Screw it on the filler port, pour in the adblue from the big jug, press do ...
DieselRanger Replies: 47 Views: 4272 Forum:Tip and Tricks Posted: 24th Oct 2025 2:49 pm Subject: Adblue filling

• Disabling Auto Stop/Start using the GAP IID tool (Gen 4)

• Thanks for posting. My normal starting procedure is a 2-button start: Stab start button, stab auto start-stop to OFF.
  
  I have a new GAP tool - a sticky post that has some commonly used items like re ...
DieselRanger Replies: 4 Views: 1105 Forum:Tip and Tricks Posted: 24th Oct 2025 2:44 pm Subject: Disabling Auto Stop/Start using the GAP IID tool (Gen 4)

• Leaking windscreen

• Here in the US, and particularly in the Mountain West, they drop sand in the winter for traction when it's too cold for de-icer, and after large storms when plows leave a skim of ice and packed snow o ...
DieselRanger Replies: 20 Views: 1584 Forum:Faults and Fixes Posted: 15th Oct 2025 12:18 pm Subject: Leaking windscreen

• New D5 Member

• Excellent color choice. I have a 2017 in Silicon Silver and it has aged quite well. It polishes up nicely and looks fantastic in the sun after a good wax. It also looks great with mud on it.
DieselRanger Replies: 5 Views: 728 Forum:General Posted: 28th Sep 2025 11:00 pm Subject: New D5 Member

• Anyone else added pointless blingy bits yet?

• Awesome mods, Ranger
  
  You're very lucky living in the US, here in the UK, we've almost nothing like those custom made off-road accessories available (yet) for the D5 outside of imports ...
DieselRanger Replies: 142 Views: 18314 Forum:My Discovery 5 Posted: 18th Jul 2025 1:48 pm Subject: Anyone else added pointless blingy bits yet?

• Anyone else added pointless blingy bits yet?

• I prefer functional mods that also add to or at least don't distract from the aesthetic. On mine:
  
  Proud Rhino rock sliders with tree bars from Lucky8 LLC (definitely got my money's worth and then s ...
DieselRanger Replies: 142 Views: 18314 Forum:My Discovery 5 Posted: 12th Jul 2025 3:45 pm Subject: Anyone else added pointless blingy bits yet?

• Blow by td6

• So the dealer i bought the car off has looked at the footage and sent it to his expert who thinks the last service guy has not used genuine parts or oil which is causing these symptoms , basically I n ...
DieselRanger Replies: 12 Views: 2964 Forum:Faults and Fixes Posted: 29th Jun 2025 9:29 pm Subject: Re: Blow by td6

• Blow by td6

• Mine is a 2017, around 88,000 miles on the clock - absolutely zero oil loss, zero smoke out of the tailpipe.
  
  Ensure you're using the correct oil that meets JLR spec. I have tried other motor oil (M ...
DieselRanger Replies: 12 Views: 2964 Forum:Faults and Fixes Posted: 18th May 2025 3:05 pm Subject: Blow by td6

• General - Broken?

• It's broken if you click on the title, but not if you click on the 'last post' link
DieselRanger Replies: 4 Views: 1453 Forum:Site News & Feedback Posted: 9th Apr 2025 12:55 pm Subject: General - Broken?

• Help!!! Knocking/Clunking Noise

• Tighten the spare wheel in the carrier.
  
  Remove any/everything from the rear, including anything in the underfloor storage (2 row) and the spare tire kit from the storage in the boot.
  
  Double chec ...
DieselRanger Replies: 7 Views: 2637 Forum:Faults and Fixes Posted: 26th Jan 2025 9:11 pm Subject: Help!!! Knocking/Clunking Noise