Help with Reseting Oil Service Indicator...

[zugellos]

Hi everyone. I was hoping I can get a little help with the reseting process for the oil service.

I was able to reset the indicator, however what I ended up doing was inadvertantly set it such that the next oil change won't be needed until 2013!

Does anyone know of a way to change it back to the correct date?
Please help, I've searched as best I could already without any luck.

Thanks.

[Keyser Sose]

What is the reset process?

[Jordo]

Originally Posted by Keyser Sose

What is the reset process?

Or where did you find the info?

[Weasel]

You can't change it back through the cluster, but it can be done through the diagnostic equipment. You just tell it what mileage and date the last change was done and it recalculates the remaining time till service. If you still have maintenance coverage you'd want to bring it in to fix this to avoid disrupting the service cycle, if not and you do the oil changes yourself you can note down when it is due again and just reset normally it when you do the oil change.

[zugellos]

Yeah...I've got no warranty left. So it looks like I'll have to manually keep track of the mileage for a couple of years.

Thanks for the responses.

[Jordo]

Originally Posted by Weasel

You can't change it back through the cluster, but it can be done through the diagnostic equipment. You just tell it what mileage and date the last change was done and it recalculates the remaining time till service. If you still have maintenance coverage you'd want to bring it in to fix this to avoid disrupting the service cycle, if not and you do the oil changes yourself you can note down when it is due again and just reset normally it when you do the oil change.

So with out the dealer there is no way to reset it? You said "reset it normally". So is there a way?

[blktoptrvl]

Check out the "Articles" section at the top of the page. I believe the reset procedure is there.