Resetting the oil service light on a 2006 BMW 320i

The oil service warning light on the BMW was still on after the last oil service, so I looked around for how to reset it. Lots of advice on the internet, but mainly involving special tools (aka paperclips) and dodgy shorting-out of pins in the diagnostic port.

There’s also talk of holding down the trip reset button whilst turning the ignition key to the first position, then releasing and pressing and holding the button again. But there IS no ignition key in the recent BMWs..

The answer turned out to be a bit more easily guessed (after a bit of trial and error). When you start the engine, the oil service warning shows on the dashboard, at which point you just press the BC button on the end of the indicator stalk (which is how you access most of the diagnostics anyway). The word “reset” appears, and another click and hold on the BC button makes it show “resetting” (and a little clock icon so you know it’s busy). And that’s it.

Put away the paperclip.

Tags:

This entry was posted on Thursday, March 12th, 2009 at 10:51 pm and is filed under Home . You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

One Response to “Resetting the oil service light on a 2006 BMW 320i”

  1. What does it mean when my service light comes on in my 2000 Audi A4? | Cheap-Performance-Parts.co.uk Says:
    April 6th, 2009 at 7:01 am

    [...] JulianHigman.com » Blog Archive » Resetting the oil service light … [...]

Leave a Reply