Evening all,

In a bit of a bind with a car we bought 3 weeks ago. 1.3 Multijet diesel 500L 7 seater. On Wednesday this week, noticed a little puff of blue smoke out the back while sat at a set of traffic lights. Checked the oil while cold and level and it was at the max of the dipstick. Other half used it to go to work and back yesterday and this morning with no issues, two journeys of approximately 15 miles.

Come to start it this evening, the second the engine started it quickly flashed "Insufficient oil pressure, check engine". Stopped the car, gave it 5 minutes, checked the oil again, still at maximum. Set off as the error had disappeared and the engine appeared to be running normally. Around 3 miles into the journey the engine management light came on and the car has gone into limp home mode. Stopped the car again, waited 5 minutes, checked the oil, still at maximum. Very gingerly drove the car home, taking care not to put any stress on the engine.

As it stands at the minute, got an EML on, with intermittent low oil pressure warnings.

Da fuq?

Get the DPF side of things checked with software..

The oil quality should be reset after a change..

Its not impossible to have 2.5 liters of oil in it..and 0.5 litres of diesel bringing the level up to max

Have you heard it regen?

You know something, I actually haven't. I have a 1.6 Insignia and that regens what seems like constantly, not heard this thing do it at all. I'll get in touch with the place we bought it from tomorrow and ask what the can do under the pathetic 90 day warranty. It was serviced about 6k ago at some place in Carlisle but the oil is quite dark. Don't know how long the vehicle was stood at the car sales place either, but the battery seemed to take about a week or so to get sufficiently power conditioned that the start stop worked again.

I'm starting to think this car is a proper pup. Is 111k high for one of these engines?

Spartan117 said:

You know something, I actually haven't. I have a 1.6 Insignia and that regens what seems like constantly, not heard this thing do it at all. I'll get in touch with the place we bought it from tomorrow

I'm starting to think this car is a proper pup. Is 111k high for one of these engines?

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Hi

Well worth getting it checked over.. that error code could be informative..

The motors are normally good for 250k..
But will want a chain soon..

Hola,

Apologies for the late reply, but it ended up being the timing chain. Shagwit who replaced it under the gash warranty didn't change the oil or water pumps at the same time so have that misery to look forward to. Thank you varescrazy.

varesecrazy said:

Get the DPF side of things checked with software..

The oil quality should be reset after a change..

Its not impossible to have 2.5 liters of oil in it..and 0.5 litres of diesel bringing the level up to max

Have you heard it regen?

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Could it be dpf? Mine had not reset and now is showing that message at start and then disappears

Spartan117 said:

Hola,

Apologies for the late reply, but it ended up being the timing chain. Shagwit who replaced it under the gash warranty didn't change the oil or water pumps at the same time so have that misery to look forward to. Thank you varescrazy.

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Was going to suggest the oil pump as this is powered off the timing chain and not in the middle of the engine as on a lot of cars. Any issues around the bottom pully could point to the oil pump. As you've had the cambelt replaced in the past then the oil pump has to come off to do it. therefore likely even if they didn't change it they could have damaged it.