PRESTONBOB

Thanks TMB - the 'OIL' signal appearing and the loss of power I described were indeed unrelated. The AA came out, plugged in the diagnostic tool and lo and behold it was a faulty ignition coil, which he replaced in 5 mins. I'm now 50 quid lighter (price they charge for the part) but the engine is running smoothly again!

I've recently had similar problem: oil changed at Christmas and I've covered less than 3K since then. 'Oil' on dashboard display appeared (as in gfunk's pic) and I checked the level - al ok so I assumed it was just a servicing schedule reminder that needed to be reset. However, today whilst driving home from work, things took a much worse turn. Driving normally and suddenly the engine lost most of its power and felt like it was about to stall but didn't. I managed to limp it home but wonder if today's development is related to the 'oil' dash message and the car's put itself into safe mode as happened to me a few years ago. Any suggestions? How can I investigate any engine error codes? Thanks.

I had a similar problem and found that bizarrely the boot would open if I opened the rear driver's side passenger door first! I kid you not - I discovered this when trying to get things out of the boot. The problem then disappeared for a while but would occasionally reoccur. Recently both doors havbe been OK and al I did was spray WD40 down into the locking mechanism (on one of those random occasions it would actualy opened).