[PhilMabbots17]

Hi BFGDSMan
Just ordered my new DS as a tow car and will shortly be looking to fit a tow bar, so found your You Tube videos excellent. Thinking ahead I'm wondering if I need to swap out the oil at approx 10k miles how would this affect my warranty. Did you impact your warranty when you changed your engine oil yourself between the two year service period ?
Richy

As above, it's the owner's prerogative to change oil whenever he see's fit, but, to avoid any allegation by JLR of warranty invalidation, you should use only JLR parts and approved oils. Following N025, only JLR-approved garages will be able to reset the service indicator for anything other than full "A" or "B" services (See JLRP00100). If your DS detects an "average" or "normal" driving style, the estimated diesel dilution will rise at about 0.5% to 0.8% per 1,000 real-world miles so the car will present a "Service Required" message somewhere between 7,000 and 12,000 miles. To remove the possibility of yet more disputes over this, the oil dilution counter will need resetting somehow in order to remove the service message. Possibly a full reset would still work, maybe one of the dealers on the forum could fill in the blanks...

 

[PhilMabbots17]

From what I've read here it's a very hit and miss situation. Even main dealers are still doing the resets incorrectly (thus creating the situation you describe) and it appears that virtually no e-service records are being created. I suspect that if you pitched up with 10K left and insisted on paying for a full 21K or 42K service they would oblige. Why not give one of the independents a call? I found Team Valley really helpful after I realised I was going to need 3 or 4 extra oil changes every 2 years on a post 1 June 17 warranty.