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• Burning oil smell after early oil change?

• Russell, and as an update for anyone else who might have an issue...
  
  It turned out that the issue was a weep from the rear of the off-side rocker cover - they changed the gasket...
  
  Now all sorte ...
LiftedDisco Replies: 21 Views: 16652 Forum:Faults and Fixes Posted: 27th Jan 2019 3:07 pm Subject: Burning oil smell after early oil change?

• Burning oil smell after early oil change?

• Hi Russell
  
  Wondered if you might have had any additional info or feedback from the dealer as mine goes in on Wednesday!
  
  Cheers
LiftedDisco Replies: 21 Views: 16652 Forum:Faults and Fixes Posted: 17th Dec 2018 5:15 pm Subject: Burning oil smell after early oil change?

• Burning oil smell after early oil change?

• Good stuff - would you mind sharing whatever they discover (and the name of the dealership) as mine is going in on 19th and it would be interesting to see if it’s a problem that’s shared across th ...
LiftedDisco Replies: 21 Views: 16652 Forum:Faults and Fixes Posted: 11th Dec 2018 10:59 am Subject: Burning oil smell after early oil change?

• Burning oil smell after early oil change?

• It’s at the rear and just above the heat shield for the exhaust
  
  I’d be surprised if it’s rear crank seal (which books at 7.7 hours incidentally...) but let’s see what they think.
  
  
  https ...
LiftedDisco Replies: 21 Views: 16652 Forum:Faults and Fixes Posted: 9th Dec 2018 9:55 pm Subject: Burning oil smell after early oil change?

• Burning oil smell after early oil change?

• I’ve found the oil...
  
  https://disco5.co.uk/gallery/10683/normal_5410BEBC-81A0-4997-8404-F16C979C7837.jpeg
  
  Be interested to know how you fare with your dealer on Monday - I’m going to start w ...
LiftedDisco Replies: 21 Views: 16652 Forum:Faults and Fixes Posted: 9th Dec 2018 8:43 pm Subject: Burning oil smell after early oil change?

• Burning oil smell after early oil change?

• Hi Russell
  
  Hope all is well with you and Mark... how's he doing these days???
  
  Jess is now working at Gaydon (!) so I should have some clout (yeah, right...) but wondered if you can help identify ...
LiftedDisco Replies: 21 Views: 16652 Forum:Faults and Fixes Posted: 4th Dec 2018 12:12 pm Subject: Burning oil smell after early oil change?

• Burning oil smell after early oil change?

• Thank you... any ideas on where stuff was dripping on the bellhousing and, also, how they found it?
  
  I have an endoscope if needs be...!
LiftedDisco Replies: 21 Views: 16652 Forum:Faults and Fixes Posted: 3rd Dec 2018 9:47 pm Subject: Burning oil smell after early oil change?

• Commercial owners, I need your help.

• Boot area or the rear doors?
  
  I’ve removed the ones from the rear doors but still have the black plastic in the boot area.
  
  This strikes me as very strange - I have had two D4 Commercials (which ...
LiftedDisco Replies: 5 Views: 6115 Forum:Faults and Fixes Posted: 1st Dec 2018 7:19 pm Subject: Commercial owners, I need your help.

• Burning oil smell after early oil change?

• I’ve been using them for around 10 years on servicing - regrettably in all that time, I’ve never managed to actually buy a vehicle from them as they simply won’t do a deal...
  
  However, the ser ...
LiftedDisco Replies: 21 Views: 16652 Forum:Faults and Fixes Posted: 25th Nov 2018 8:50 pm Subject: Burning oil smell after early oil change?

• Burning oil smell after early oil change?

• Wondering if anyone might be able to assist...
  
  I’ve had the early oil change scenario and had dropped this into Northampton to be told on collection that it was ‘only a software update’ and t ...
LiftedDisco Replies: 21 Views: 16652 Forum:Faults and Fixes Posted: 25th Nov 2018 7:46 pm Subject: Burning oil smell after early oil change?

• Spare tyre pressure warning light

• Yep... mine has the TPMS light on for the spare - been through the saga of asking the dealer (nicely), getting naff all back, so then emptied the boot load bay (it is a Commercial after all...), lower ...
LiftedDisco Replies: 29 Views: 27396 Forum:Faults and Fixes Posted: 8th Oct 2018 8:42 pm Subject: Spare tyre pressure warning light

• Multicar Insurance Policies

• Ah... they actually just make the premiums up...!
  
  Aviva were nearly £1k dearer than Admiral at the time of renewal - nevertheless, I rang Admiral to 'negotiate' (bearing in mind Jess had just rece ...
LiftedDisco Replies: 4 Views: 5180 Forum:General Posted: 30th Jun 2018 7:59 am Subject: Multicar Insurance Policies

• Multicar Insurance Policies

• Yes - Admiral
  
  Full of praise for them - we first turned to them with a young driver in the house and found that by going multi-car, the discount on the highest rated car (then an 18 year old with a ...
LiftedDisco Replies: 4 Views: 5180 Forum:General Posted: 29th Jun 2018 1:33 pm Subject: Multicar Insurance Policies

• Phone - QWERTY lookup?

• Perfect... didn’t realise there are actually two ‘In Control” apps...
  
  Many thanks for the link...
LiftedDisco Replies: 5 Views: 7222 Forum:In Car Technology Posted: 27th Jun 2018 8:49 pm Subject: Phone - QWERTY lookup?

• Phone - QWERTY lookup?

• Perfect... many thanks - I’d made the mistake of looking at the paper version!
  
  Now perhaps you can solve the challenge of the sat-nav freezing, similar with the radio, speed limit not displaying ...
LiftedDisco Replies: 5 Views: 7222 Forum:In Car Technology Posted: 27th Jun 2018 8:17 pm Subject: Phone - QWERTY lookup?