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  1. Al Pizzica

    2012 - Decreased power on incline

    Agree, throttle is not opening. Be really interesting to run the same graph in Sand Mode. It opens the throttle to almost 100% in the first half of the pedal depression.
  2. Al Pizzica

    LR4 Transmission Fluid Change: Pan Swap Option

    It really depends on if you just did the pan swap or did anything else with the valve body. When I did the valve body Zipkit the tranny was open for a few days and lots more drained out than a quick pan swap. I used almost 7 full quarts but many who do a quick swap use much less. The fluid is...
  3. Al Pizzica

    Anyone end up buying their Grenadier order

    Same on all fronts, saw one in person just the other day. It is awesome and better looking in person. Truly sick looking the way this guy had it kitted out. Passed on this and Rivian SUV due to dealership distance, plus already have solid front axle truck with bad steering compared to the LR4...
  4. Al Pizzica

    Highest mileage LR4?

    Me too. I have a '13 with less miles and I would not have thought it would get that kind of money: half my original investment. My early '22 Model Y, which I love, is now worth less than half what I bought it for according to Tesla and I bought it a year later than the LR4!
  5. Al Pizzica

    LR4 Transmission Fluid Change: Pan Swap Option

    I didn't know there was an order and I just got it up there with four corners (after it fell in my face and gave me a bloody lip) and then made sure you tightened it up evenly around the outside like lug nuts and mine is golden.
  6. Al Pizzica

    Why do american trucks get much better mpg that the lr4?

    Now do 2nd gear and sand mode to increase throttle mapping and see if you can get into the 6's. Seriously, what are we trying to accomplish?
  7. Al Pizzica

    LR4 Transmission Fluid Change: Pan Swap Option

    I suspect most on here did what I did and just shoved whatever hose comes off their pump in (I have a mityvac similar to the one above). It does not go very far but if you have another person pumping slowly so it is not shooting out aggressively it should not be a problem, I had nothing but a...
  8. Al Pizzica

    LR4 Transmission Fluid Change: Pan Swap Option

    The mess comes mostly when you remove the pan. This fluid has odd properties where it will just take hours and hours to stop oozing out of the underside of the valve body.
  9. Al Pizzica

    2012 - Decreased power on incline

    Sounds like it's not downshifting when it should if rpms don't increase on the hill. Did you try manual mode and sand mode? Do the same thing and stay in first and see if it flys up the hill.
  10. Al Pizzica

    2012 - Decreased power on incline

    I still don't understand this one. If you floor it from a stop up a hill what exactly happens? If nothing is slipping (slipping=engine revving but vehicle not moving any faster) then either it is choosing too high of a gear (shifting to manual and holding first to near redline can test this) or...
  11. Al Pizzica

    maintenance history since new 2013

    Did you notice any big improvement with the plug change? I'm at 109k and I don't think they have been changed.
  12. Al Pizzica

    2012 - Decreased power on incline

    Next time this happens put the vehicle in "sand" mode. The one with the cactus. If it doesn't leap up the hill like a scalded cat, something is indeed wrong. Tranny had a service yet? First symptom I noticed when the fluid got old was reluctance to downshift and a clunk when it did.
  13. Al Pizzica

    Highest mileage LR4?

    Say all you want, I had two N63's: a '13 and a "revised" '16. Burned oil like crazy, both of them. I knew the BMW guys very well and off the record they said they would never own one out of warranty or even with one past 50k because your car will be in the shop or you will be adding oil every...
  14. Al Pizzica

    Why do american trucks get much better mpg that the lr4?

    Here in the NE the winter blend is also dragging down fuel mileage. Just did 500 miles at 80 and only got 17mpg. In the summer it would be 18.5. Yes, these things eat a lot more gas with each mph over 65, I've noticed, don't need Bernoulli for that!
  15. Al Pizzica

    Highest mileage LR4?

    These injectors are known to get dirty and noisy. I'm finding this 2013 running quieter using seafoam every other tank (we only put 5-8k miles a year on her so it seems more often than it is) than our last one not doing that. Also, seafoam in the oil for a few hundred miles before an oil change...
  16. Al Pizzica

    Failed emissions - no faults

    There is a whole thread about the LR4 not having any codes but "not being ready" and the issue goes back to the DII's. There is a specific driving sequence that has to be done for it to consider itself "ready" and it is a pain. On of the requirements that I eventually did that pushed mine to...
  17. Al Pizzica

    Batteries

    Marketing is one of the answers to your question. Look at all the VWs and Audis or nissans and Infinitis that are the same vehicle with slightly different fenders and interior materials. Google "brand positioning"
  18. Al Pizzica

    Highest mileage LR4?

    I like the positive news idea. We got our 2nd LR4 in fall of 2020. A 2013 with 68k miles. The only reason it has ever been to the dealer is to program a new key since my wife lost one fob (what a fiasco, the dealer not my wife). Frequent home walmart mobil 1 Oil changes, a battery, lots of...
  19. Al Pizzica

    Highest mileage LR4?

    As a CFO and former engineer I can tell you there is simply no way to make the math work on these things, you have to factor love of the vehicle in or you are screwed.
  20. Al Pizzica

    Idle Help

    Following because I have an intermittent unsteady idle only when HVAC is on, kind of a mild die off immediately followed by a mild surge, like hunting on a generator. If I shut HVAC off it goes away. I was thinking maybe the compressor on the way out.
  21. Al Pizzica

    Highest mileage LR4?

    Thanks for this, you guys are making me feel like our 2013 with 108k is a spring chicken and I'm banking it is. It's paid off, it ain't worth much so we are riding this one into the sunset.
  22. Al Pizzica

    Anyone care to admit this was them? Off the edge of a cliff and recovery from Matt's Offroad Recovery.

    I think you have to do a lot of wheeling and then look at the video to realize that in never, ever does sketchiness any justice. Been wheeling Jeeps for 20 years and this video had my skin crawling numerous times with 6000# above them with sketchy rocks allegedly holding it up and extremely...
  23. Al Pizzica

    Anyone care to admit this was them? Off the edge of a cliff and recovery from Matt's Offroad Recovery.

    Been watching them for a while. That was easily the sketchiest recovery I've seen them do. It was an LR3, and I'd love to know the back story, but glad to know you can roll off the side of a cliff and deploy every bag in the whole rig and walk away in one of these things.
  24. Al Pizzica

    Metal coolant plumbing for LR4?

    There was a thread on here about a guy doing prototypes of this but it never appeared to come to fruition to my knowledge.
  25. Al Pizzica

    Increased Performance

    Couldn't agree more. We bought our second 2013 with 68k and now it's at 108k it is running as good or better based on the basic maintenance advice from this forum including a bunch of Seafoam on both gas tanks and 100 mi b4 oil changes and tranny services.

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