Clean It Up
UK Window Cleaning Forum => Window Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: lee_dewing on May 19, 2019, 10:55:15 am
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Hello everyone
Was driving my Fiat doblo 90 multi jet
14 plate
Yesterday and oil light came on
Little red oil can symbol
Flashing sometimes stops for 20 seconds then constantly flashes
Check oil level but levels fine gave a small top up about a coffee mug full
Drove home as only a few miles away
Green flag came out and run diagnostics tests 2 lots of software no faults found
Guy said get full service and engine flush as oil is black
When I bought van from dealership they did service jan 2018
But noticed on their checklist they hadn’t ticked oil change
Was assured oil was changed
Next service was 22,000 miles or 2 years
I do 9000 miles a year but town driving
Manual says oil and filter change every year if town driving
(I know should have read it 🙆🏻♂️)
What do you guys think?
Getting van serviced Wednesday morning
Can I drive van locally?
Got work due tomorrow and Tuesday
Under 5 miles driving
Anyone know if red flashing oil can means service due?
Or any ideas, green flag said no oil leaks, oil pressure guage ok
Thanks lee
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My van has dpf filter too!
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The oil light is indicating a lack in oil pressure.
Needs either
- Oil & filter change
- New oil pump or
- New oil pressure sensor
Probably number 1.
I wouldn't be driving it.
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I'm guessing you have a 1.3 engine.
They have small sumps and a capacity of less than 4 litres I believe and need an oil change annually, whatever your garage told you. My 56 plate had an oil change annually and "my garage" told me that they are excellent engines but really need an oil change regularly or they "gum up".
Sounds like a flush and oil + filter change is needed pronto.
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Could be "oil quality" warning light. Some DPF systems dilute the engine oil, this only happens if a filter regeneration is interrupted multiple times. The crazy this is that most vehicles give no indication when an active regeneration takes place- thus can't actually be avoided! We have 2.2 cdti engine which does this.
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Not to be the bringer of bad news, our friends Mazda had oil light come on like this - like idiots they drove it another 5 miles for the engine to blow up - the DPF had got blocked and starved the engine of oil
its never a good idea to drive a vehicle if the oil light appears whether it stays on or is flickering
Darran
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Not to be the bringer of bad news, our friends Mazda had oil light come on like this - like idiots they drove it another 5 miles for the engine to blow up - the DPF had got blocked and starved the engine of oil
its never a good idea to drive a vehicle if the oil light appears whether it stays on or is flickering
Darran
How does a blocked dpf starve an engine of oil ??? The two are not connected oil is in the engine the dpf is the exhaust .
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that I suppose is correct, as a def failure is more of a symptom that there is a problem than a cause, but not an expert on this so maybe the garage report was incorrect - the Mazda 6 I think is well known for oil issues anyway
Darran
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Thanks Fella’s
Smudger, been assured not dpf as 2 different diagnostic tests and no faults found
Green flag guy said dpf was one of the things he looked for first
As mentioned in one of the previous posts:
Needs either
Oil & filter change
New oil pump or
New oil pressure sensor
Hopefully: Oil & filter change, as no faults found🤞
As advice given oil and filter changed annually as read in manual
For town driving.
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I think you may well find that it is an oil quality light that you are getting as the warning , I have the Fiorino 1.3 multi , I had the same happen so I did oil and filter only for the light to stay on !
I had to have the oil service light put out via laptop software , cost £30 I recall .
I don’t think that it comes up in a diagnostic check as it’s not actually throwing up a code to read .
Not 100% the problem but worth getting checked out if it does go back on a diagnostic !
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Hello P@f
Don’t know if this works on your Florino regarding reset on oil light
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=R2cgfZyIuKU
Thanks lee
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Don’t know , but cheers for that , I will be trying that if it happens again :D
Have you tried that on yours?
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Didn't someone on here drive their Ford Connect a few years back with the oil warning light on only for the engine to conk out?
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Think Daz killed a van like that :D
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oil light flashing means you need to change the oil and filter, check the manual its all in there
you cannot just change the oil and it goes away, it has to be reset using a laptop etc,
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Think Daz killed a van like that :D
to be fair he thought it was temp gauge on his hot water system ;D ;D ;D ;D
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P@f
Got mobile mechanic coming Wednesday to do full service
If light doesn’t go out will try
As scrimble says oil light needs resetting
Also as scrimble says all in manual
🤦♂️
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Think Daz killed a van like that :D
Didn't he buy a brand new van after this?
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Think Daz killed a van like that :D
Didn't he buy a brand new van after this?
Yeah, he calls it Air Con1.
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Think Daz killed a van like that :D
Didn't he buy a brand new van after this?
Yeah, he calls it Air Con1.
Wow it's got air con :o window cleaners have never had it so good 8)
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Air con is a game changer for fat baldies like me. Instead of going home and whinging at 2 o'clock on a hot day, having fifteen minutes of chilling in the van can add an hour's worth of work to a day.
It's a "must have". Even Dan the Man is more productive since he swapped the old Doblo for a van with air con.
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Think Daz killed a van like that :D
i did.........2 days back after new year too! :(....oil light came on,i stopped the van immediately,checked oil(it was fine)so carried on driving to my next job and the engine seized(oil pump failure)....i didnt know anything about oil pumps at the time and just thought it was a faulty warning light....the van was 12 years old with over 100,000 miles on the clock....lesson learned......
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Air con is a game changer for fat baldies like me. Instead of going home and whinging at 2 o'clock on a hot day, having fifteen minutes of chilling in the van can add an hour's worth of work to a day.
It's a "must have". Even Dan the Man is more productive since he swapped the old Doblo for a van with air con.
air con is fantastic,i wouldnt buy a van without it now....its great to cool off at lunchtime and driving between jobs on warm days,also if you suffer from grass pollen hay fever(i do) it helps keep the symptoms down.