Originally Posted by Dan00Hawk

I was able to do the reset on my 2004 MCS yesterday, and it was set at 15,000 for the next "service interval". Prior to that, it had counted down for the "oil change".

Originally Posted by RCorney17

I successfully reset the reminder, but it says "INspection" now and not "Oil Service". What's up with that?

Originally Posted by MiniMacPR

Just to follow up on this, both quoted posts refer to exactly the same instructions. I just did this today and on my '05 the words that came up after the first step were not "Reset" but "test".

The first time I released the odo button when "test" came up but it didn't do what it was supposed to do. When I did it the second time, I waited a bit longer before releasing the button and after a while, "test" was followed by the oil service interval number, in my case -250. At this point I released the button for the first time and pressed and held it again (per the instructions) and the number started flashing. Then I released the button and pressed again and "voila" the service interval was reset, in my case to 15,500.

For the record I change my oil every 5K miles.

In summary, in my '05 the procedure was as follows:

1. Hold down the trip odometer button.
2. Insert ignition key and turn to the first position.
3. The word "test" will first appear on the odometer indicator and after a bit of time the current oil change interval will appear (e.g. 500, 2750, etc.)
4. When the number appears, release the trip button, then press & hold once more.
5. The current oil change interval number will flash.
6. Release the button, and then press & release again.
7. The Service interval is now reset.

I have no idea on what cars this will work on, but it's how it worked on mine.

Good Luck!

Originally Posted by jrprich

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The manual methods never worked on my 04 MC

Originally Posted by ScottRiqui

The sequence of services that come due are:

1) Oil Service
2) Inspection I
3) Oil Service
4) Inspection II

(after this point, I believe the cycle repeats itself)

To use my car as an example, when I took delivery, it was counting down to "oil service", which came due at about 12,500 miles. After that, it counted down to "Inspection I", which came due at 33,200 miles (yes, I also changed the oil myself during the 21,000 mile interval). When the service counter was reset after the Inspection I service, it started counting down to "Oil Service" again, and will likely come due for that service around 51k miles, at which point I'll reset the service counter and it will start counting down to "Oil Service" again.

On a side note, this is why I would recommend against paying for an extended service agreement if you drive a lot of freeway miles. I do a lot of interstate driving, and this stretches out the OBC-recommended service intervals so much that by the time the standard 36k mile service agreement ended, I only got through the first "Oil Service" and "Inspection I". I received a free service extension to 50k miles when I took delivery of the car, but even that agreement will likely have ended by the time I come due for the next OBC-recommended service (the second "Oil Service").

Originally Posted by jollyroger927

I have the same problem that you responded to with this quote and i dont know if i fully understand. my oil counter was at 75 when i attemted to reset, and now it says inspection at 15000, do you know how i can change this to say oil counter, or bring the oil counter back up and reset it? thanks much.