supergreen

i might be the first... i have 6700 miles on my car now and the oil life warning keeps flashing when i start up the engine.
i did change the oil at 3500 miles but the dealer forgot to reset it.
anyone know how to reset the oil life back to 100%?

SlntSam

From what I've read on this board you select the screen that shows you the oil life and then you hold down the reset button for 5 seconds. it will then ask you if you want to reset the oil life.

6spdzoomzoom

its actually about 20 seconds... otherwise your correct

rets

Remember, you can also reset your "oil life" reminder any time by this tip. For example, if you're gonna change you oil next month, you can reset it by pressing "RESET" for seconds. (I don't know why 20 secons, I hold it about 10 seconds only.)

This is only reminder you can reset, and we're in the bad luck if dealers didn't reset others for us.

And, you're not the first... tons of early built cars has been experiencing this.

vtechbrain

Unfortunately you should have done it when you changed the oil. Change the oil before you reset it or your conputer will not calculate the service intervals correctly. I'm wondering how you drove with that pain in the butt warning for 3k? I had it for 1 day and it drove me bonkers!

6spdzoomzoom

It drov me bonkers as well.

supergreen

i think the oil life was at 50% when i had it changed.
it just started alerting me a couple days ago... at around 6500

jgrahamiii

I guess that absolutely verifies that the oil life monitor does not monitor the oil at all (I think we'd come to this conclusion any way, but this clearly confirms it). It also means that using sythetic oil will not change the monitor change period.

supergreen

oil life is reset.
thanks!!

rets

That oil life reminder is just a stopwatch or odometer, you have to reset it to make it count from the beginning again. It's not automatica device yet.

So far, there is no way to monitor your oil life as we monitor the height of fuel level or pressure of engine oil. And, we don't know how to monitor its cleanness yet.

IMO, this reminder is good for those always forgetting to change oil, but it's a little bothersome for those understanding oil.