[cam50cam]

My truck has 5800 miles. When I changed the oil, the oil smelled like scorched earth. Has anyone else experienced this? Also, been in shop 4 times for throwing same emission codes. Anyone experienced these issues?

 

[mattyj724]

Curious why you are changing your Oil at 5800? did you get a indicator to change it? or just felt like changing?

 

[Chief Poncho]

Any follow up on this? What codes, what was the problem and fix if any?

 

[Accused]

Whats the codes its tossing out? I believe we had one or two here tossing out codes but they turned out to be erroneous just a faulty sensor...

 

[10%More]

Cam50cam...

Welcome.

See you chose an introduction with a problem. My take on the oil smell is you have little experience with diesel engines. Historically diesel engines both dirty their oil quickly and that oil has a bad smell.

This engine uses synthetic oil. I agree it did have a different smell during the first few miles than my experience with diesels and petroleum-based oils. Still, that was not unusual. My conclusion is you have experience with dino oil in gasoline engines and bring that experience to your diesel.

Forget the oil/smell issue. It's probably normal. Also, stop smelling your oil. Smell deer musk and know there's a big coming around you might get a shot at. That has more value.

As for all the codes ... what codes?

Assume you own a code reader and read the codes. If the dealer did it they were surely able to both interpret the codes and fix the problem. What was the problem?