Oil maintenance reset light “Impossible”

[Eastwood]

I am a bit confused; 03/27 is in the future so that sounds like BimmerLink correctly performed the reset. The transient maintenance reminder when you start the car is normal.

Everytime I start the car it says Service Due 03/27, 9000 miles, then disappears within a few seconds.

When this happened last time, I cleared the notice and it was gone. It came back this time, I was planning to do my oil change at 8200 miles or so, so I cleared the notice since it would take me a while to get to 8200.

When I tried to use the button control, it said Reset Impossible, so I used Bimmerlink, reset it and the notice still shows up, but as I said it still disappears quickly.

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[climhazzard]

It says Service Due 03/27, 9000 miles when I start the car, then disappears within a few seconds.

When this happened last time, I cleared the notice and it was gone. It came back this time, I was planning to do my oil change at 8200 miles or so, so I cleared the notice since it would take me a while to get to 8200.

When I tried to use the button control, it said Reset Impossible, so I used Bimmerlink, reset it and the notice still shows up, but as I said it still disappears quickly.

The transient notice informing you of the next maintenance date when starting the car will always occur. When the date (or mileage) arrives, the message will persist in the notification center of iDrive. This is normal behavior for all modern BMWs.

 

[Eastwood]

The transient notice informing you of the next maintenance date when starting the car will always occur. When the date (or mileage) arrives, the message will persist in the notification center of iDrive. This is normal behavior for all modern BMWs.

Yeah that's what I figured after I researched a bit. I was planning on doing the oil change before that and figured the notice will stay until 03/27 or 9000, just glad the notice is not annoyingly always there.

 

[climhazzard]

Yeah that's what I figured after I researched a bit. I was planning on doing the oil change before that and figured the notice will stay until 03/27 or 9000, just glad the notice is not annoyingly always there.

Yep. Once you hit the mileage or date the notification will persist and say service is due. If you go a month past that, it'll say overdue (the little yellow indicator might change to red, but don't quote me on that).

That aside, if your last reset was done when the vehicle had ~7000 miles, I do find it a bit weird that the reset only pushed the next interval out by ~2000 miles. Possibly something to do with the algorithm and back-to-back resets.

 

[Eastwood]

Yep. Once you hit the mileage or date the notification will persist and say service is due. If you go a month past that, it'll say overdue (the little yellow indicator might change to red, but don't quote me on that).

That aside, if your last reset was done when the vehicle had ~7000 miles, I do find it a bit weird that the reset only pushed the next interval out by ~2000 miles. Possibly something to do with the algorithm and back-to-back resets.

Might have been my fault, when I did my oil change at 4000 something, I didn't have a notice to do so, so I may have forgotten to do my oil reset. I think the oil maintenance alert came up sometime after that and I cleared it. Then it came up this recent time, cleared it but the Service Due alert came up and that's where I'm at now.

I'll just live with it until the date or mileage comes up and clear it then. I'll make a note to myself on my logs when I reset the alerts. Didn't know BMWs were this sensitive but now I know.

 

[tracer bullet]

I'll just live with it until the date or mileage comes up and clear it then.

That's usually what's up w/ BMW's, you can reset it, but can't reset it again until you have satisfied its minimums - certain # of miles, or the monitoring gizmo detects a sufficient change, their maybe be a minimum # of days as well. It's dumb but for some reason they wanted to keep people from resetting it too often it seems (whatever "too often" really means). This is through the cluster at least, Bimmerlink might allow you to WTH you feel like, I haven't tried it.

 

[J29DB03]

Yes, the “next service due” notice shows up every time you start the vehicle. It has nothing to do with anything you do.

That aside, if your last reset was done when the vehicle had ~7000 miles, I do find it a bit weird that the reset only pushed the next interval out by ~2000 miles. Possibly something to do with the algorithm and back-to-back resets.

It didn’t push it out 2,000 miles, it reset to 03/2027 or 10,000 miles and he has since driven more than 1,000 causing it to now say 03/2027 or 9,000 miles until next service due.

This is through the cluster at least, Bimmerlink might allow you to WTH you feel like, I haven't tried it.

Yes, BimmerLink allows you to reset any service interval (oil, brake fluid, brake pads) whenever you want. It tells the BMW interval to sit down and shut up.

 

[Eastwood]

That's usually what's up w/ BMW's, you can reset it, but can't reset it again until you have satisfied its minimums - certain # of miles, or the monitoring gizmo detects a sufficient change, their maybe be a minimum # of days as well. It's dumb but for some reason they wanted to keep people from resetting it too often it seems (whatever "too often" really means). This is through the cluster at least, Bimmerlink might allow you to WTH you feel like, I haven't tried it.

At this point, using BimmerLink doesn’t remove the service reminder. It cleared the original oil maintenance light but as you said BMW doesn’t want someone like me resetting it too often too early.

 

[climhazzard]

It didn’t push it out 2,000 miles, it reset to 03/2027 or 10,000 miles and he has since driven more than 1,000 causing it to now say 03/2027 or 9,000 miles until next service due.

Oh, you’re right! Show how much I actually pay attention to it.

 

[Stratosphere Blue]

I'm not reading that novel.

Sounds like you did to generate that answer.

 

[tracer bullet]

Yes, BimmerLink allows you to reset any service interval (oil, brake fluid, brake pads) whenever you want. It tells the BMW interval to sit down and shut up.

At this point, using BimmerLink doesn’t remove the service reminder. It cleared the original oil maintenance light but as you said BMW doesn’t want someone like me resetting it too often too early.

Well, at least one of you is right.

 

[J29DB03]

Well, at least one of you is right.

Both are correct. BimmerLink allows resetting of the services whenever you want. Also, it does not remove the service reminder that shows at every start up, only resets it. In addition, that service reminder is dictated by whatever service is coming up next between the oil or the brakes.

 

[mojo_jojo77777]

Something I've learned from E9x chassis, is that at a certain point, BMW will act funky about resetting service reminders.
I started learning that with the Supra, since I put so many miles on car in a shorter amount of time.

To get rid of the service notifications, just like on E9x chassis, if using ISTA/Protool, you can code out those popups forever.
Its under CBS something, but essentially "hide" notifications and service reminders/dates/mileage will never come up again.

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