Hey fellers. Went to get the oil changed at Jiffy Lube and they suggested that I bring in an OEM oil filter. Is it best to use an OEM filter and if so can anyone advise on the cheapest place to get them? I checked Mike's landroverparts site and found it for 13 plus change.

Also, spark plugs.... can anyone testify to the greatness of an aftermarket plug, or is OEM also the best way to go?

BTW....premium is the only way to go. I started filling up with shell premium, and have been getting 2-3 MPG better. Not to go off topic on the thread(though it is mine, therefore it is difficult to go off topic on a thread you are creating!!!).

 

oil change, I would not take my lawnmower to jiffy lube much less my rover.

spark plugs, have read about good results from iridiums..just installed some a few days ago.

 

change your own oil. its better for you and your rover,,,

run iridiums. i run them in all my vehicles and just swapped my rover over to em.

 

Fram is the number one supplier of oil filters to quick lubes.
Champion is the factory brand of spark plug for LR. You can use anything you want, Iridiums are great plugs. They are made from metiors.
You can buy your oil filters from NAPA, $5 for their best oil filter which is way better than a Fram oil filter.

 

Just curious, how is the top of the line filter from NAPA that much better than the FRAM oil filter?

 

NAPA oil filters are made by WIX, the Fram oil filters do not have a good anti-drain back valve so you will have dry starts every time you start your car.
Meaning no oil in the filter when you start it in the morning so it takes longer for the oil to start flowing throuigh the engine.

 

Idaho,
How many miles on your truck and how mechanical are you?

 

My Discovery II has 91K miles. Honestly, I have rebuilt motors before, but the Rover scares the **** out of me(electronics). I try not to do any of the work on it, but It is difficult to pay 70$ for an oil change and 300$ for a tune up. I was going to take it to Jiffy Lube because my garage is not wide enough to fit the rover in and it has snowed here the last two days.

I will change my oil post-haste as to not offend anyone by taking it to Jiffy Lube!!!Those spark plugs are made from meteors??? Thats a joke right? Because if its not, I am going to buy myself some damn meteor spark plugs!!! Whenever I punch the gas I can say "warp 2 scottie".

 

its not a big deal. remember these engines and electronics are really simple if you break them down to their individual tasks.

,,,this regulates this, this senses for that, this opens that etc etc. but put together it looks like a spaghetti mess of computers and wires and hoses.

and yes iridium comes from the remnants of meteor strikes on earth

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iridium


Iridium (pronounced /ɪˈrɪdiəm/) is the chemical element with atomic number 77, and is represented by the symbol Ir. A very hard, brittle, silvery-white transition metal of the platinum family, iridium is the second densest element and is the most corrosion-resistant metal, even at temperatures as high as 2000°C. Although only certain molten salts and halogens are corrosive to solid iridium, finely divided iridium dust is much more reactive and can even be flammable. The most important iridium compounds in terms of use are the salts and acids it forms with chlorine, though iridium also forms a number of organometallic compounds used in catalysis and in research. 191Ir and 193Ir are the only two naturally-occurring isotopes of iridium as well as the only stable isotopes; the latter is the more abundant of the two. Iridium was discovered in 1803 by Smithson Tennant among insoluble impurities in natural platinum from South America. It is one of the rarest elements in the Earth's crust, with annual production and consumption of only three tonnes. However, iridium does find a number of specialized industrial and scientific applications. Iridium is employed when high corrosion resistance and high temperatures are needed, as in spark plugs, crucibles for recrystallization of semiconductors at high temperatures, electrodes for the production of chlorine in the chloralkali process, and radioisotope thermoelectric generators used in unmanned spacecraft. Iridium compounds also find applications as catalysts for the production of acetic acid. Iridium has been linked with the extinction of the dinosaurs and many other species 65million years ago. The unusually high abundance of iridium in the clays of the K–T geologic boundary was a crucial clue that led to the theory that the extinction was caused by the impact of a massive extraterrestrial object with Earth—the so-called Alvarez hypothesis. Iridium is found in meteorites with an abundance much higher than its average abundance in the Earth's crust. It is thought that due to the high density and siderophilic ("iron-loving") character of iridium, most of the iridium on Earth is found in the inner core of the planet.