9 things I did not know before I bought my Land Rover Discovery 4 / LR4
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- Опубликовано: 11 июн 2024
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In this video we show you 9 things we did not know about our Land Rover Discovery 4 before we bought it. Did you know? Not all of these things are really good... Hope you enjoy the video!
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Vera & Christian ,
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You two are not only very informative but hilarious, you’ve cheered me up. Keep up the good work
I have to say I thought I wanted a Discovery 4 until I saw this video. Thank You.
I know exactly how you feel about stupid impractical design flaws Christian...
Every weekend , when I'm fixing what ever needs fixing on my Discovery 3 that broke this week ( so i can get to work on Monday ) , all i do is curse and swear and shout about my crap , "what idiot designed this" Land Rover ... but after I've fixed it , the stress subsides and then it's back to being the best car in the world again .
Another great entertaining and informative episode guys , thanks very much, i can't wait for the next one
You are absolutely right, however difficult the repair was, we forget all about it once we can get into the car again and drive off.😅👍🙋♀️ Vera
Also i am from the UK and your take of the English language is so funny,
Christian and Vera fantastic entertainment and great video just love the German humour, again keep them coming …)))))😃🇬🇧
The thick German sarcasm in this video is wonderful. Made my day
😅👍🙋♀️ Vera
Thanks for this great video. It‘s so amazing how you explain the oil sensor fail-engineering. I hope you enjoy the D4. Stay safe and healthy.
One of the best car reviews I’ve ever watched. I’m STILL laughing. You two are hilarious!!!🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
😅 Glad you liked it 👍🙋♀️ Vera
I absolutely love your videos and I think you both get funnier every week. Great work👍
Great set of video's Christian and Vera. A real learning and informative insight into all things Landrover Discovery 3&4. And, you guys are full of wit and and are good a laugh too. I thoroughly enjoy your series. Keep up the good work. All the best..👍🇬🇧🇩🇪🏴
10/10 Vera - capillary!
I don't know why Land Rover persisted with wiring in hot oil after the td5 injector harness issues.
I do so enjoy your posts .I watch them over and over again .
Thank you guys, loved the video. And I love the sense of humour of you guys.
So brilliant & entertaining. Thank you!!
Christian and Vera love your work on LR. Im sure all the LR owners specially D4 owners around the world watching every single video you guys upload. Wish you all the best, Greetings from Mongolia.
😃👍🙋♀️Vera
Another great video, thanks guys, can't wait to see the oil sensor change video.
You two are fun. Thanks for putting this together.
I like your videos, good quality, well explained and always with a nice smile. Brilliant. Keep on sharing your experiences with the Disco
👍😃🙋♀️ Vera
My favorite vlog of the Sunday.... Love you guys!!!!
😃👍🙋♀️ Vera
love this pair...informative and super funny! fantastic videos!
thanks guys always informative !
Love your Christian n Vera, thank you, so much class here
I have never seen a couple doing car videos before, you guys are awesome! Very informative and enjoyable to watch, thank you
😅🙏🙋♀️Vera
You guys are the best,I'm a mechanic too from Canada but I did learn a lot from you,all the best for you and your family, thanks
Fantastic Tips Vera and Christian. I have a Freelander 2 2010, and the door lock function also works on that 😊😊
Lol....loved this video.... laughing still now. Christian get your hole cutter out tap three holes and put it in without removing everything the German way 🤣
Excellent entertainment and knowledgable info on disco 4. So funny the pair of you 😆 long may it last 👍
Excellent Christian and Vera. The first time I laughed out loud today. Love you guys, keep it up.
Thank you! Love your droll presentation style! My Discovery 4 has done less than 20,000km, but recently had a complete electrical failure without any warning. Luckily I was able to jump start and later replace the battery. Otherwise, your tips for releasing the hand brake and putting it in neutral without power would have been essential knowledge. I love my Disco's features, but I have serious concerns over its reliability and cost to repair because of designs like the oil level sensor..
Love the videos guys keep them going! 😊
Hello form 'Downunder" I take my land rover to a wonderful garage in Romsey central Victoria, Australia. My D4 is due for it's 240000K service and we are going to do diff and gears box oils, sealed for life (yeah right!) Anyway if they don't already know of your RUclips I'm going to make sure they are given the info so they can follow you. Love your work! Love it!!!
😃🙏🙋♀️Vera
I know this is an old video, but just watching it again as I only got my D4 about 6-weeks ago. Really good to be reminded on the emergency neutral lever and brake release. As mine is one of the last of the D4s (made in April 2016 and first registered in September 2016) it would have the the oil level fixes already done (thank goodness). Also, where I live, we have an excellent independent Land Rover specialist who I will get to do any work I can't do myself. One day, when I will drive through Germany, I will try and pop over so you can video what a RH-drive D4 looks like and you can compare the engine layout differences to your D4.
Love the Matt's Off Road Recovery channel reference. Keep up the great content guys!
Great video and your sense of humour is spot on for Land Rover ownership. The oil level sensor inside the sump is truly unbelievable and my favourite followed by the water shedder. 😅
🤣🤣🤣🤣
danke schön for the tip on the door locking, it also works on my Freelander 2 :) As a Freelander owner with a dipstick I laughed all the way through the oil level sensor part.
Love it!! .-)))) You are sooooo right in what you say about LR!
Discovery 4 has some pretty amazing hidden features. But lot of LR4 owners don't know those things. Good video guys. Thank you.
Brilliant. Thanks guys ;) very entertaining.
Very enjoyable and interesting video thanks.
Many years ago, my Wife managed to put petrol in our 2014 diesel D4 - the defeat device isn’t always a lifesaver (and the repair bill was enormous, but thankfully covered by our insurance).
Thanks for another entertaining video.
Another cracking video love the humour and conversation between your good selves I agree who honestly ever thought the oil sensor setup was a good idea ! I would love 5 minutes with these Engineers to explain as you did the obvious failings lol.Enjoy your new vehicle and keep up the good work you make my Sunday’s so much better.As they say stay safe out there lol
Here is a post I found with respect to the oil sensor issue as a workaround not sure if it works but hey after all we are Range Rover owners we live on the edge lol.
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JamieLC wrote:
I read on a post on here before that if you unlatch your bonnet, leave the driver door open then go into the service menu, select oil level and quickly hit cancel on the steering wheel as the gauge comes on it will give you a reading. I will try to find the post.
Open bonnet, ignition on, service menu, oil level display, press (cruise) cancel twice quickly.
👍😃 We are going to have to try that out. 🙋♀️ Vera
Hi guys great video, the global window closing system was on my Rover 800 vitesse turbo 1997 , very good function , I didn’t know about locking single to all doors on key fob , so thanks to you I now do . Regards mark
Learnt all of them, going to try tomorrow
Christian & Eva that bubbling is good
Well done Christian and Vera! The dipstick issue is an absolute abomination. I haven't heard about that so far. Here in the US we have the V8 gasoline engine. I am not sure if the messed up this engine as well. I use an independent Jaguar / LR shop and he definitely recommended to get LR3 and not an LR4. After the switch to the 5.0 direct injection V8 and other "upgrades" these vehicles won't even get near a LR3 lifespan. He has seen LR3s with 300-400,000 miles. The only downside with the 4.4NA V8 is the gas mileage 😳. I love your videos and your polite German ranting😁
👍😃 The diesel mileage on our LR4 is also not great. The LR4, with an automatic transmission, gulps more diesel than the LR 3. We did not expect this. 🙋♀️Vera
Thank you for buying an LR4. Most RUclips videos are for the LR3 like all your videos. Other than the diesel difference, our LR4's are the same except for the transmission. Mine has the stick shift. Veilen Danke!
😃👍🙋♀️ Vera
Great video , loved it.
Brilliant! That oil sensor disaster is pure heritage 70s British Leyland: "That'll do the job lads, let's have a tea break - better still let's have a strike"
😅👍🙋♀️ Vera
....and I loved the video! Thank you.
Thank you very much. I learned a lot! 👏👏👏🙂❤️
Great video. I’m not evening looking to buy an lr4 but this video was very entertaining.
this funniest, yet most informative video. lol can't stop laugh and cry the same time.
Excellent your a great team 👍
At 19:15 where she hides the pin she enters seems funny, it's a smart idea ..., people often use the same four digit pin code for lots of things including banking if it's so required...., loving your channel.
Great video and lovely personalities. A Very uplifting video
Very entertaining !
Great video.. my friend
Love the reference to Winder Towing. Glad I'm not alone in wasting time on RUclips!
😅👍🙋♀️ Vera
Well now, I was thinking of buying an LR4 or LR3. Thanks to your vid, I guess it will be an LR3 just so I can have the relaibility of a real dipstick. My BMW 750i (E65) has the whole oil level sensor thing, but at least, it also still has a stick. I can kind of understand the need to protect the mechanicals from the uneducated and unwashed, but it escapes my logic as to how a dipstick isn't a viable "option" even if you have the sensor. Thanks again for a great vid!
Superb, superb, superb.
You guys are awesome - keep it up :)
Thoroughly enjoyed this video. You guys are so compatible !! I don't even mind that you are pulling apart a brit icon ( even if it was a US build and now an Indian one).. Great work and thanks a lot. I am even more convinced I will never buy one of these.
BRIT in Malaysia.
Vera and Christian, it sounds like the Land Rover engineers involved should receive the "hot oil treatment", if you know what that involves, LOL. Thank you for all the work you put into your videos. They are always crafted with the stated "German Engineering".
thank you so much on the tips, Christian.. i didn't know.. long live the good 'ol dip stick 😁😄
Such knowledge! Love you two!
I'm looking to buy a LR 4 in the States . Love your videos !
Hello Vera and Christian. I live near Köln and have recently bought the exact same vehicle. There was also a Rumänien connection. So im looking forward to your future LR4 Videos. Alles Gute.
😃👍🙋♀️ Vera
Great to see you have a Discovery 4! Excellent video and looking forward to learning how to do work on mine.
Will you be fitting your full width sliding drawer? Am interested in whether the D3 dimensions translate directly to the D4. Keep up the great work it is both educational and entertaining.
I am going to say that yes it does so. But we won't be doing that soon since our LR 4 is Christian's daily driver and needs to fit into the underground garage at work, which is only 190cm high. So no mods for this one anytime soon. But that's what we have our LR3 for. 🙋♀️ Vera
Love that you also watch Matt's Off-road recovery - would like one of his recovery ropes!!! - great video, as a D3 owner I enjoyed sending the link to my D4 owning brother :)
Thanks! Matt’s off-road is very entertaining. One of my favorite channels. Christian
Loved your video
Thank you both for the channel . 1 your interesting show has me thinking about buying a discovery and this video means I will be buying a Discovery 3
😅👍🙋♀️Vera
Love the videos. So Entertaining and I am learning - just got an LR4 as well, not sure yet if I am crazy?? would be keen to see how you go resetting the gearbox back after pulling that lever to get out of park and also the auto ZF gearbox pan removal/service.
😅 We are only going to do that if we have absolutely have to. Not for entertainment purposes. But I am sure there are other videos out there. 😃👍🙋♀️ Vera
That was awesome guys.
I don’t even own a Land Rover - or plan to buy one ( I do love them) - I own a Land cruiser and a GX460 - but I love love love your channel - best channel on RUclips
Thanks 😃👍🙋♀️Vera
Danke !! I did not know for the window closure from the fob 😅🤣
Superb!! water shedder!! Perhaps water displacer.
Evening Vera and Christian. Fantastic as always with some great humour thrown in lol 😆 Watching this episode on our honeymoon in Plymouth so hopefully our marriage with have as much fun 🤩 xx
😅👍 Congratulations on your wedding. 🙋♀️ Vera
I learned about the oil level sensor. :)
You can open all the windows with the remote fob too.
Thank you for letting us laugh at your expense.
Great video! You can also open all 4 windows by pressing and holding the unlock button on the key fob. The doors will stay locked.
Just found your channel and love the format. With each new LR model comes increasing complexity and potential problems, have you ever considered buying a new Defender......
Amazing!!!
Thanks Christian, you just put me off buying a Disco 4 or 3 for that matter! I have owned 4 Defenders, a Disco 1,a Range Rover Classic V8 BUT I am waiting for the Grenadier!! I like your videos, great for a few laughs and some serious information. I wonder if the oil sensor couldn't be retrofitted to the sump in the conventional way?? Surely it would be a relatively simple work around??
27:00 One useful thing to do in secret menu is, that you can display the reversing camera view while driving. Not useful very often, but it might sometimes.
👍 We know that, but we couldn't get it to actually work and show, so that is why it didn't make it into this video. But since there is so much more info we have, maybe we'll get it to work in our follow up video. 🙋♀️ Vera
Rear camera is handy for when towing & keeping an eye on a load strapped to a trailer
Hi Christian, great video. I wonder whether it it is possible to make a manual dipstick to check the oil level through the oil extraction tube? If you have a home made referenced dipstick, if the sensor failed at least you could check the oil level manually.
On the Discovery II, the TD5 engine injector loom also leaks oil thru capillary action all the way from the engine to the ECU. Similar kind of issue, except that the loom is MUCH easier to replace.
Didn't Mercedes invent those self oiling wiring looms?
God that's so stupid😂
Great video, I hope you are both well.
👍😃🙋♀️ Vera
Nice shout out to Matt’s Off-Road Recovery. I enjoy your videos and I don’t even own a Discovery. Wish you guys owned the new Defender!
Yes, 80000€ is way too much for us, but hopefully we'll get one in the future, when the price drops because of some serious failures Christian can fix then 😅👍🙋♀️ Vera
You two are brilliant. That’s why Brits love Germans, because they take the fizz out of us so nicely and in our own language which they speak better than us. Great video and I did learn a lot. That JLR guy who designed the inside oil sensor lives here……..
😅👍🙋♀️Vera
Great vid again.
My 2020 Landcruiser still has a dip stick and to date has not failed to give me a reading. I’ll get back to you should it do so. It also has an oil pressure gauge which seems to work well too. Great video guys
On closing windows with the key fob, I am sure you know you can also open all windows by pressing and holding the unlock button. Great video as always.
Yeah we know, we covered that in a Disco 3 video already that's why we did not put it in here. 👍🙋♀️ Vera
Nice video. As a pretty well informed D3 owner, I only knew one of these D4 specialty things, namely how to close the windows from the remote. Best of luck with your oil level sensor replacement!
I think I hate that oil level sensor. I m ok with my deep stick in D3
@@selebalotsiu7139 Completely agree. I also prefer the phisical key to the start stop button and keyless entry.
Another great video guys, didn’t know the oil sensor was an issue, I’ve had my 2014 D4 3 ltr since new & never had any major problems, in fact I haven’t had any issues with it at all & am continually surprised by the amount of breakdowns & failures others have. 210k on the clock now & going strong. I service it myself & live in country Victoria , Australia. My cars have always lasted along time as I think country driving gets the car up to temp every time. I tow a lot also & use the transmission manually when towing to maximise engine breaking. No DPF is also a bonus.
Will not be selling it until the wheels fall off is the best car I’ve ever owned. Looking forward to your D4 videos have enjoyed the D3 videos as well as am considering getting one as a second car.
I think driving relaxed and with good operating temperatures is the key to a long engine life. Short distance city traffic is the opposite. Our LR3 also did not have any engine issue other than EGR valves which is normal on any car. Hope you can keep it for an other 200tk. And if it breaks, simply fix it. It’s a Great car. Christian
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This is hilarious. I love it.
Always a pleasure watching yous two, plus informative. I know the ridiculous cost just to change the auto gearbox oil on a 3 the oil sensor beggars belief.
Thanks 😃👍🙋♀️Vera
Why to make it simple when you can complicate everything ?? welcome to JLR ;)
😃👍 We have been part of that tribe since 2010 and love it more every day. 🙋♀️ Vera
Still wouldn't have any other 4x4...even with their foibles
@@caryknapton7233 👍 same here 🙋♀️Vera
Lol you guys are just awesome love the chemistry between you how always seem happy together. I wonder if u ever upset each other ?
😅👍 Sometimes it does happen 🙋♀️ Vera
@@Vera_and_Christian has it ever happened while filming?? 😎
best news ever that you now have a D4 Vera, Christian will now have a lifetimes of videos to make👍
😃👍 That was the plan😅 🙋♀️ Vera
@@Vera_and_Christian 👍🤣
thank you so much my dad's LR4 sdv6 has been leaking oil I every mechanic said it was the turbo that was the problem. we replaced the factory engine and the new engine was smoking, after a week the crank snapped and now the engine is being replaced again.