Engine: D5: Urgent Engine Service Required

[Adgti]

Fuel filter for sure! Mine did it right after i bought my S60 D5.
Changed fuel filter and its never done it again since.

[jim annandale]

Originally Posted by tykey

If I remember rightly, the recommended service interval on this filter is 160,000miles! A bit too long, I suspect.

I've been changing mine every year, I wondered why they're so expensive. Mind you, I don't think I'll wait 160,000 miles though.

[drasprey]

I've a D5 S60 2003, owned since 95k and now has 185k clocked up in trouble free mileage. Intermittently I recently get the dash message "Engine Service Required" appear. The only change the cars characteristics is the deactivation of my cruise control when this happens?

I experience no other faults, no hesitation in power, no engine smoke. Switch it off, switch it on and the message dissapears. As this had been going on for a couple of months I recently had it fully serviced (all filters etc)with a cambelt change at an independant garage. I've manually reset the service interval sequence, yet it's popped up agian this am after around 20 miles of 40mile daily each way motorway commute with cruise on at 65mph.

Any ideas to rid me of this demon message once and for all?

[outnumbered]

Originally Posted by drasprey

I've a D5 S60 2003, owned since 95k and now has 185k clocked up in trouble free mileage. Intermittently I recently get the dash message "Engine Service Required" appear. The only change the cars characteristics is the deactivation of my cruise control when this happens?

I experience no other faults, no hesitation in power, no engine smoke. Switch it off, switch it on and the message dissapears. As this had been going on for a couple of months I recently had it fully serviced (all filters etc)with a cambelt change at an independant garage. I've manually reset the service interval sequence, yet it's popped up agian this am after around 20 miles of 40mile daily each way motorway commute with cruise on at 65mph.

Any ideas to rid me of this demon message once and for all?

you need to have the codes read

[jim annandale]

Originally Posted by drasprey

I've a D5 S60 2003, owned since 95k and now has 185k clocked up in trouble free mileage. Intermittently I recently get the dash message "Engine Service Required" appear. The only change the cars characteristics is the deactivation of my cruise control when this happens?

I experience no other faults, no hesitation in power, no engine smoke. Switch it off, switch it on and the message dissapears. As this had been going on for a couple of months I recently had it fully serviced (all filters etc)with a cambelt change at an independant garage. I've manually reset the service interval sequence, yet it's popped up agian this am after around 20 miles of 40mile daily each way motorway commute with cruise on at 65mph.

Any ideas to rid me of this demon message once and for all?

Clutch pedal sensor??? You may have a slight leak from the clutch master cylinder onto the cps plug, that stops the cruise control working but to be fair I don't know if it puts a message up. Easy repair.

[cheshired5]

Originally Posted by drasprey

I've a D5 S60 2003, owned since 95k and now has 185k clocked up in trouble free mileage. Intermittently I recently get the dash message "Engine Service Required" appear. The only change the cars characteristics is the deactivation of my cruise control when this happens?

I experience no other faults, no hesitation in power, no engine smoke. Switch it off, switch it on and the message dissapears. As this had been going on for a couple of months I recently had it fully serviced (all filters etc)with a cambelt change at an independant garage. I've manually reset the service interval sequence, yet it's popped up agian this am after around 20 miles of 40mile daily each way motorway commute with cruise on at 65mph.

Any ideas to rid me of this demon message once and for all?

Definitely sounds like your clutch position sensor with those symptoms.
And......I have a shiny brand new one (boxed and unused) you could buy!
I bought it after reading several threads on here and also bought an autel diagnostic machine.
The autel came first and I found that my issue was actually my Mass Airflow sensor.
I kept the clutch position sensor anyway as from the sounds of it and the mileage my s60 has done, I MAY need it sooner or later.
I'm only in Crewe, so if you'd like to meet up, I could hook up the autel, read your codes and try the new sensor if that shows up.
Let me know if you're interested......

[66split]

To the OP, just as a note, if you use supermarket diesel, run it on some branded stuff for winter. I used to use supermarket diesel and experienced the same kind of problems...'branded' diesel, no more problem. Could be just coincidence though.

[Jonathan_angelo]

Originally Posted by tykey

If I remember rightly, the recommended service interval on this filter is 160,000miles! A bit too long, I suspect.

I dont think its that long, Mine just went into Holden Volvo for its 106k mile service @ 103k miles, and they change the fuel filter at that stage. I have to say that it felt a hell of alot more responsive after the service... Could have been air filter and decent oil that also helped, but my guess is fuel filter will enable a better fuel delivery?!

[mcpie]

So yesterday my car did the same, moderate load on engine, hick-up at 1800 rpm then loss of power at 3000 rpm and into limp home mode. I hope it's just the filter, I do a lot of high speed motorway miles and hopefully that keeps the sticky VNT problem at bay. I've done around 20,000 on the motorway in the last 8 months or so. But in the last four weeks there's been four tanks of fuel through the car.

I do get a judder (when pulling away) in the morning so have been reading many posts about the vacuum engine mounts too.

Waiting for the garage to read the codes right now...

Fingers crossed!

[mcpie]

Well codes read and they pointed at low fuel pressure. Filter changed - the old one was as black as the ace of spades...

Even got the reluctor ring changed on the offside front (I had a spare) and all for £80.