Boxer 'change oil' warning fix

Amazing what you can find on YouTube. Good tip.

Actually the Boxer should go first two years without any service unless it has changed since 2016 when mine was registered.  If you set up your vehicle on the Peugeot website it will confirm the service interval.

Hi

We bought a brand new Bailey motorhome last year. Hardly any miles on the clock as only done one trip out to Lincolnshire. Just getting it ready for next trip, when we switched engine on "Warning Oil Change", appeared on screen we were totally confued but thanks to this post we have been able to get rid of the message on screen. A great find.

Hi, I also have a 2017 boxer 2.0 and after a few hundred miles the oil warning light message come on. I took it to my local Peugeot dealer and the mechanic connected his laptop to the van and reset it so the oil warning message went off..........wish I had your tip above at the time 👍

The mechanic said that the dealer should have reset it before it was collected by the buyer as it’s something to do with the time since build and the dealer should have reset it.

Re-setting warnings is not a good idea because there are at least two kinds of "change oil" warnings and the oil can become degraded by operation of the catalyst doing a forced regeneration.

However  I had exactly the same experience in my 2017 Citroen Relay Blue Hdi Euro 6 engine and the dealer who fixed it at no cost blamed the dealer who did the PDI for not having re-set the vehicles service computer at delivery/PDI.

I hadn't the heart to explain that the fixing dealer and the supplying dealer were one and the same !!

Just goes to show that all car manufactures sing off different hymn sheets. Depressing both throttle & brake pedal & then turning the ignition on with some Vauxhalls will flash engine fault codes via the engine management light.

I have a 67 plate Autosleeper Warwick Duo which is a Peugeot Boxer van which is just a year old, It has done 6700 miles and the change oil message has come on. I've reset the warning and the light has stayed off.  

I've asked Peugeot and one engineer said change, but another said it was just set to warn after 1 year (the old service interval).

Having read the above i'd be interested to know if what has happened to your vans since you posted? ( at £180 for 6l of oil, a filter and a plug seal it seems expensive, but I don't want a damaged engine!)

We have a Elddis Peugeot on an 18 plate. Also have the engine oil warning today , oil change not due for another year or more. Tried this fix on u tube and it works. Must be due to build of van 12 months ago but was sold 1/11/18.  Marquis needless to say have obviously not re set the oil change date.

That should read a 68 plate boxer.!

Bought daughter new corsa a few years ago ,back to dealer all the time flashing lights .plug in machine change loads of bits All not required ,found same as M/M same trick . Saved a fortune she had it for 10 years

I think it's always a good idea to have some kind of box of electrickery to 'talk' to your car with ... obviously none of them will be able to do as much as the specific dealer kit, but they'll give you a starter for 10. And you can normally buy one for not much more than a garage will charge you for plugging their kit in just once.