Confirmed. My E70 had the oil warning light come on and started to count down from a 1000 miles. 4400km does seem very unusual...unless it is indicative of some fault relating to the slow gear changes and high revs, you mentioned earlier?

Hi Peter,

I have had the exact same problem with my e70 3.0d. For the last few months it would occasionally hold the first gear for a long time, sometimes almost hitting 3000 revs before changing up.

I had the car remapped 6 months back by Jason, so was going to see if he could help. In the ...

Hi,

Yes, I did get the vehicle from a main dealer and will try the goodwill angle, but in all honesty, regardless of outcome, I think I'm going to disable the headlight washer jets in the future (presumably a fuse somewhere).

I don't particularly like them as they spray screen wash all over my ...

Hi everyone,

My 1st post on this site is unfortunately also a whinge about the dreaded headlight washers. My X5 E70 lost one of these yesterday as I was driving back to London from Manchester, it was around -3 on the way back and my washer jets were frozen.

When they finally got working, around ...