Yellow spanner and oil level increasing

Yellow spanner and oil level increasing

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g7jtk

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Sunday 24th April 2016
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Took the Urban Cruiser to my local dealer yesterday. Yellow spanner comes on intermittently. This has happened a couple of times before.

They say there is too much oil in the engine. They are the only ones that put any in there.

They say this is because extra fuel is pumped into the cylinders as and when the DPF system needs it to clean the filter. On short journeys the cycle gets interrupted and the fuel that is left in the cylinders and gets past the piston rings then into the oil.

Their solution is going to be to make the glow plug light come on when the cycle starts then we have to drive the car on a dual carriageway for up to twenty five minutes so that the engine gets to maximum temperature.

I don't think this is an acceptable solution. We told the salesman the kind of use the car was going to get at the time of purchase Sounds like a misselling case to me.

No wonder Toyota are dropping Diesel engines.