Surely the garage where you took your vehicle are at fault for not advising you they would not be able to clear the message. In defence of the main dealers - why would they want to help to finish off a job that someone else has been paid for?
If you build up a relationship with the service department manager at main dealer then the benefits outweigh paying slightly more at service times and buyers always like to see dealer stamps in the book. Just speaking from my own experiences - prices are always negotiated and I've never been charged for loan cars (my wife loved driving the new ewok for the day this week)

For what it's worth I once had LR Assist at my house looking at a diff problem and mentioned that the Oil Service message was showing. The guy said that he wasn't allowed to clear it even though his computer had the software to do so. 3 x FL1 2 manual + 1 auto
5 x FL2 4 manual + 1 auto
Now Discovery Sport P250 MHEV SE

Ignore it.

I stopped noticing it after a week, probably less! Procrastination, mankind's greatest labour saving device!

Acoustic insulation ARB TPMS 3xARB air compressors After cooler Air tank On-board OCD pressure air/water cleaning Additional 50L fuel Carpet in doors ABE 2x1kg Waeco 28L modified fridge Battery 4x26ah Solar 120w Victron MPPT 100/20 DC-DC 18amps 175amp jumper plug Awning 6x255/60R18

Found this on fleabay:- http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Landrover-RangeR...SwXshWqJzw
This sort of manufacturer practice should be outlawed. As we can have it serviced by a vat registered garage to retain warranty.
Not that I have this issue, mines on a 58 plate. Neither would I now buy a car that had to be serviced by a dealer only. Landy has now gone.

fadig wrote:

Brazilian tip:

1. Turn on the ignition switch
2. Open the hood
3. Open the driver door
4. Note: Manintenance resetting information is not displayed on the instrument cluster. Fully depress the accelerator pedal, and brake pedal, and hold for 60s.
5. Turn off the ignition switch
6. Turn on the igntion switch and check whether manintenance information is cleared
7. If maintenance information is not cleared, repeat the procedure.

thought this was a pi$$ take but just tried it on my 11 plate and it seems to have cleared it !!!!!!!!!!

I will agree with above - just carried out the above procedure on mine - 2010, 60 plate car.
Message now gone.

WELL DONE SANDY!!! It works.  2013 Dynamic Santorini black
2011 XS Lago grey
2007 HLS Stornoway grey
sometimes towing an Elldis AVANTE 574.

fadig wrote:

Brazilian tip:

1. Turn on the ignition switch
2. Open the hood
3. Open the driver door
4. Note: Manintenance resetting information is not displayed on the instrument cluster. Fully depress the accelerator pedal, and brake pedal, and hold for 60s.
5. Turn off the ignition switch
6. Turn on the igntion switch and check whether manintenance information is cleared
7. If maintenance information is not cleared, repeat the procedure.

fadig wrote:

Brazilian tip:

1. Turn on the ignition switch
2. Open the hood
3. Open the driver door
4. Note: Manintenance resetting information is not displayed on the instrument cluster. Fully depress the accelerator pedal, and brake pedal, and hold for 60s.
5. Turn off the ignition switch
6. Turn on the igntion switch and check whether manintenance information is cleared
7. If maintenance information is not cleared, repeat the procedure.

fantastico

iCarsoft LRII LR2 or Gap Diagnostic IID BT will reset 12 month service and Oil service warnings (and also many other faults) G4 Freelander 2005 V6 HSE Stage 1 Thailand/Laos. HQ Support YZT
Grey Freelander 2 2011 SD4 HSE - Works Van - gone to a new home.

Well thank you Brazil after three years of dealer service I went independent this year and suffered the warning with my garage trying all sorts of different tricks. I thought the Brazilian tip was a wind up but it bloody worked on my 12 plate. 2012 GS Converted-
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Give the man a gold medal! Past: FL2 TD4 HSE Auto
Evoque SD4 Dynamic Lux Auto
Present: Audi A3 S Line.

The oil service required visit dealer message is not a service message, it is indeed to do with the DPF regen.
When the vehicle is serviced, new oil is put in. The vehicle needs to know this, so it can reset it's oil counter to zero.
It then keeps track of the number of DPF regenerations & partial regenerations. Once it has reached a specific limit the 'oil service visit dealer' message comes up, which is independent of the service reset & based solely on the likelihood of oil dilution with diesel because of the partial regenerations.

When the DPF (Diesel particulate filter) needs cleaning, the engine system injects diesel on the exhaust stroke of the engine, in effect pushing this diesel into the exhaust, allowing the CAT to heat up, by burning this diesel, to then clear out the DPF.
The downside of this is it creates a small amount of bore wash allowing some diesel into the sump, diluting it.

The Freelander just counts how many times it injects the diesel, then puts the warning on, to advise you the service needs bringing forward, or risk poor engine lubrication.

A lot of time when the vehicle is serviced, the person servicing it is unfamiliar with the need to reset the oil counter as well as the service reset, and the aftermarket multi makes tools haven't added this function, or if there doesn't work well.
I didn't know of the manual way of doing it, so thanks from Brazil!
We used to use SDD, but iid is much quicker & completes both routines in one go!

HTH
regards
Steve

Good explanation Steve and sound advice - Don't just switch it off - do something about the trigger cause  No Longer the owner of a 2013MY Fuji White GS

"Fiat Lux" a philosophy not a car

Well, I couldn't believe the suggested way to delete the message but I tried it and it worked for me too so a very big thank you for the information