On the last visit to the dealer for oil change, the tech wrote on the invoice "Reseting oil life monitor system"... Is there an oil life monitoring system on the S Type ???

 

Sort of but AFAIK only on the diesel.

 

Maybe old habits die hard for an ex-BMW tech?

 

Did he put one of those stickers in the corner of the windshield?? Thats probably what it is, just there fancy way of saying it on the invoice.

 

Maybe polished the glass with snake oil too.

 

Yes, I'd go with 5000Km - depending on how you drive it.

 

No sticker.. maybe removing the old one counts as "reset"...
I have 02 Mountaineer, and it has oil life monitor, that you can reset... but was not aware of such in Jag...

 

Did he change the blinker fluid too??

 

And the stale air in the tires as well?!

 

Make sure that your reverse tranny synced with your forward tranny as well. Oh and absolutely don't forget to check the pneumatic fluid in your tires, that stuff can get EXPENSIVE! lol

To the OP, No.

 

Not that I know of. I just did the 20thou service on Laurie's since we don't know if it was done or not.

Not to hijack but speaking of dealer service. I do know that the PO of this car had it serviced at the dealer. Year old Jag battery in the trunk, Jag oil filter and the rep at Rahal ran the VIN and said it was in once a year.

So I go to take the belly pan down and the frt center J-nut spins, ripping a chunk of plastic with it. I fixed it up with my trusty Fusor Adhesive good as new. But then I noticed nothing holding in the middle although there are two holes where fasteners should be. They had snapped the studs off the two little tin retainers in the center and just left it that way. I'm going to see how expensive a couple new one are. I can't imagine a whole bunch.

But why on earth wouldn't you put some antisieze or grease on those fasteners when you know they rust up. Well at least here they do. Especially when you are the one that will have to deal with them next time. And why let a car go out with fasteners missing out of the belly pan. Of course they probably figure just let it fall off and then sell a new one.

I don't mean to bash dealers but I bet an oil change isn't like Jiffy Lube priceing.


Oh, and I am surprised that this Jag doesn't have a service interval reminder. Such cars as my lowly Saturn wagon and a couple Pontiacs I had tell you when to change the oil. Just kinda surprising given all the other electronic do dads. Also got a surprise that it holds 7 quarts of oil. I wondered if it was ever gonna quit draining!!

 

All good points.

But I think only the diesel has a service / oil change reminder (with other messages) - all due to diesel-specific issues (DPF, oil/fuel dilution, whatever). And thus also has a way to reset the reminder.

As the non-diesel cars with VVT really do like clean oil it's a bit surprising there's no reminder.

 

Was there a line item for "blue writing fluid" aka "ink"? The service order had to get written after all and old dried up "blue writing fluid" doesn't work as well as fresh "blue writing fluid". But, if they want to change to green, red, or black ... a full flush is required to avoid cross contamination. And of course, regardless of colour, it has to be genuine Jaguar "writing fluid" meeting Jaguar specifications and only used in a genuine Jaguar "writing fluid" reservoir.

You're probably getting the drift by now.