Hi folks. My TD4 had an oil service warning come up on the dash about a month ago. It disappeared a few days later after a long run. By this point I had booked it in for a service and MOT as it would be due the service at the start of December anyway so I went ahead with it.

However, driving home tonight, the oil service visit dealer warning has come back up. Is it possible to tell if this is just the default "needs a service" warning that simply wasn't reset by the garage who did the service, or do I have something to worry about? Only thing of possible interest is I've only been doing very short distances in it in the last few weeks.

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Did you look to see how much oil is in the engine or doesn't it have a dip stick. Bonnet release is in the passenger footwell! Procrastination, mankind's greatest labour saving device!

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This works for me

Oil Service Reset

found this on another site and it was the same procedure I used. took more like 1 min to reset rather than the 15 seconds for this guy

To switch off the service light in your MK6 or MK7 Transit: (worked for FL2 MY11 TD4)

1. Service it
2. Switch on ignition but don't start engine
3. Press Down Brake pedal and Throttle pedal fully, and hold till service light flashes this may take up to a minute, but usually about 15 seconds
4. Switch off igniton

Job Done

Lightwater wrote:

Did you look to see how much oil is in the engine or doesn't it have a dip stick. Bonnet release is in the passenger footwell!

Garage needs to re-set both dilution AND mileage at service time with a DPF car and many do not doing only mileage. FL2 MY10 TD4 GS traded in at 2 years
FL2 MY13 TD4 GS Current

[quote="grod"]This works for me

Oil Service Reset

found this on another site and it was the same procedure I used. took more like 1 min to reset rather than the 15 seconds for this guy

To switch off the service light in your MK6 or MK7 Transit: (worked for FL2 MY11 TD4)

1. Service it
2. Switch on ignition but don't start engine
3. Press Down Brake pedal and Throttle pedal fully, and hold till service light flashes this may take up to a minute, but usually about 15 seconds
4. Switch off igniton

+1 just carry out above job done

I've done the reset so time will tell if there's something else up.

Cheers all. FL2 TD4 GS 60 reg Facelift - so many issues
2019 DS. Terribly unreliable.
Sold DS for a 2021 Mitsubishi Outlander PHEV. Fingers crossed....
Sold Outlander for a 2014 SD4 SE Tech because I’m mental
Now greatly regret selling the Outlander. MPG of the FL2 is atrocious and so are the fuel bills. Fun though 😎
Couldn’t afford the fuel bills so back to an older Mitsubishi Outlander PHEV. Significantly better than I remembered it to be…

Trust me I went through this a month ago after clearing the service side myself, had to pay a indie to re-set the Diloution count. All you will do is confuse yourself further down the line on a TD4 with a DPF.

At least you then know when you reset both if you get a service message below a year it is due to thin oil after burn offs. FL2 MY10 TD4 GS traded in at 2 years
FL2 MY13 TD4 GS Current

Did the above procedure do the dilution and service count or just the service? If the latter can I reset the dilution one? FL2 TD4 GS 60 reg Facelift - so many issues
2019 DS. Terribly unreliable.
Sold DS for a 2021 Mitsubishi Outlander PHEV. Fingers crossed....
Sold Outlander for a 2014 SD4 SE Tech because I’m mental
Now greatly regret selling the Outlander. MPG of the FL2 is atrocious and so are the fuel bills. Fun though 😎
Couldn’t afford the fuel bills so back to an older Mitsubishi Outlander PHEV. Significantly better than I remembered it to be…

I suggest you take seriously the oil service message as the oil dilution, on DPF equipped cars, could lead to this: http://www.freel2.com/forum/topic32690.html

It’s all down to oil changes I have always replaced my engine oil + filter every 6000 miles

Jack my very regular oil changes did not stop the service message coming up recently. I could have ignored it but if the car needed recovering it stipulates the vehicle will not be recovered under the policy if not maintained and who is the recovery guy going to believe me or my car read out ! My indie will clear service messages back to zero for £25 (cash). No brainer in my opinion. FL2 MY10 TD4 GS traded in at 2 years
FL2 MY13 TD4 GS Current

Hi Bob I was referring to the post above mine where valve wear was mentioned

alex_pescaru wrote:

I suggest you take seriously the oil service message as the oil dilution, on DPF equipped cars, could lead to this: http://www.freel2.com/forum/topic32690.html

I just tried to warn people of the importance of resetting/zeroing the oil service timer when the oil service is performed.
The engine ECU, especially on DPF equipped cars, based on number of starts, number of regenerations, incomplete regenerations, functioning hours, oil temperature variances, driving style and so on, is computing the moment when the oil must be changed. Apart from the standard and fixed time/mileage stuff.
Depending on conditions, the message can appear sooner or later. And it's important to be reset/zeroed when servicing the car, because, as user, one doesn't know the possible state of the oil.
So treat this warning and its procedure with the proper importance.
Of course, if you regularly change oil, at shorter intervals, like Jack frost said, the above, somehow, looses from its importance, but nevertheless, better be done correctly and timely.
No matter where and how...

As per your case, if you changed the oil recently, just go somewhere to reset to oil service (dilution) timer, in order for the engine ECU to has some time origin to start computing next message occurrence.

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