Mfd Service Interval, Confused...
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My understanding has been that for diesels first inspection service should have been at 25000 miles or at 2 years, whichever comes first. Thereafter every 25000 miles or 1 year. However, I just saw a new van that have been set to have inspection interval of 1 year from the start so I have to admit that I’m confused too.
Anyways, the thing I’m curious about is that I would have expected to see inspection service miles remaining to be 25000 – 9500 = 14000 miles remaining.
Is it possible that inspection interval miles counter has been resetted about 6000 miles ago (25000 – 19000) and possibly inspection interval time counter has been twiddled too?
Here's what the dealer told me...
The setting on the mfd isn't zeroed when it leaves the factory and so it's down to the dealer to zero it during the pdi. Inevitably they don't bother and so you get any old instruction at any time until it's reset. Mine came on saying I needed an oil change after 350 miles.
I was told to take no notice until 2 years or 20k miles.
The setting on the mfd isn't zeroed when it leaves the factory and so it's down to the dealer to zero it during the pdi. Inevitably they don't bother and so you get any old instruction at any time until it's reset. Mine came on saying I needed an oil change after 350 miles.
I was told to take no notice until 2 years or 20k miles.
You can choose to have either variable(oil quality sensor) or fixed.
Mine came from the factory on variable PR-Q18 and I had it changed to fixed as I like my oil change done annually. Therefore my service display will show up to 1 year for the oil change but 2 for the inspection service.
