Oil change & inspection - do the service reset yourself!

Recently updated on January 12, 2023 at 05:46 am

It should not be news that care and maintenance are part of maintaining the value and safety of the vehicle. Various services are to be implemented as a preventive measure in order to be able to drive the car reliably and safely in the long term. The different manufacturers have integrated the so-called service interval (maintenance indicator), which varies depending on the brand, model, technology and year of manufacture. If the car is getting a bit old, you might think about not always taking it to an expensive dealer, but various jobs like you oil change perform yourself. It goes without saying that any guarantees / warranties expire in this case and the correct stamp is not available in the service booklet.

Flexible or permanent service?

At some point, however, every “bread and butter vehicle” comes to an age when these things are less important than the option of saving money. Although it can make sense to have servicing and inspections carried out by the authorized dealer “after the warranty period has expired”, everyone has to know for themselves in the end resets the service interval. In a workshop or just yourself? In modern vehicles with flexible service intervals, a distinction must be made between service and oil change intervals. But that should be clear to everyone who works on their own car! By the way, only in the rarest cases do you have to go with one suitable diagnostic device reset the maintenance interval display system.

Diagnostic testers may be necessary!

It often works directly via a function in the on-board menu or manual reset can be carried out using certain key combinations, for example on the indicator or wiper lever. Keep in mind, however, that manual resetting in vehicles with flexible service intervals is often automatically switched to displaying fixed intervals. If you still want to have flexible intervals, you should carry out the service reset with a diagnostic tester or have it carried out in a specialist workshop against a 10 in the coffee machine. The prerequisite for a reset is of course always that work on spark plugs, air filters, transmission oil, brake fluid, fuel filter, oil etc. has been carried out.

the most common vehicles at a glance

Of course, you can still find examples of the vehicles we have inserted on the Internet countless other tutorials to reset the service interval. In the next paragraph we have identified the most common keywords for you, which you only have to enter into the search engine in combination with your vehicle type. The result is almost always a small video that explains in a simple way how you can reset the service interval.

We hope you have the info report on the topic / term Service provision from the field of auto tuning. You could also use the following keywords for the search engine: Inspection reset, reset inspection display, reset inspection interval, reset interval display, reset service display, service reset, reset service display, service interval display, service reset, maintenance display, reset maintenance interval, reset WIV. Our goal is that the largest German-speaking tuning lexicon (Tuning Wikipedia) and to explain tuning terms from A to Z easily and understandably. Almost every day we expand this lexicon and how far we are, you can HERE see. Soon the next one will be Tuning scene concept be illuminated by us. By the way, you will be informed about new topics if you have ours Feed subscribe to.

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