Skiday

Just a side note on filling. If you don't want to go to the bother of getting a special filling tube thing that 'Bap33' used, or just don't want to fill from beneath, you can do what I did; when the filter is off and the plug is in, pour new oil into the filter holder to the top (about 200ml??), set the alarm on your phone for 2min30sec, do a bit of polishing, when the alarm goes off fill it again and so on. Eventually you'll have the oil in and the car polished!

Thanks. That sounds fair enough. I'm sure though that the oil has not been changed since manufacture as the service record book has never shown it as changed, and if you paid the dealer all that money for them to do it I would think they would be sure to tick the box when they stamp the book and the owner would be sure to check it (I certainly would anyway). I notice that in the initial post of this thread by 'Bap33' he is doing the oil level check (the whole oil change in fact) with the rear wheels on the ground and the front on ramps. Surely the correct procedure would be for the car to be level just as it would be at the dealers with it on the lift? I'm sure that having the car up at the front must affect the level. I'm still not convinced that putting in the same as what came out (5.5l) can be any worse than checking the oil with the car not level.

If I don't have VCDS how much of a risk am I taking doing this job? If I measure the amount of oil I drained and fill up with the exact same amount surely I can't be far wrong?

Probably this was posted so long ago it's unlikely I'll get an answer, but (and I realise you're not naturally English spoken Stanian, so the error is understandable) the meaning is not understandable. When you say 'it's not gone it since' do you mean it's not gone wrong since, or it's not gone correctly since? I have code B108B71 but haven't really noticed any working problems with the HVAC. Anyway, I have done the re-set as shown in the video above and it all seems to work as it should (although it's hard to test the recirc until you get behind a diesel Transit!, I've cleared the code to see if it will reappear later. One little anomaly I have noticed is that usually, but not always, the fan will go from full and turn down one light at a time till there are three lights left, then one more click anti-clockwise it goes off. The turning back on it skips to three lights on and then goes up one light at a time. Sometimes it goes from off to full one light at a time. A bit random. As a general rule of thumb for any found fault codes, can you clear them off if you suspect, or to test to see if, there isn't actually a problem safe in the knowledge that if the problem is still present it will come up again? Andrew