[s-cars] Service Indicator - reading OIL???

[Mark Strangways]

Call your local S-Car clansmen and suggest splitting the cost of the
VAG-COM.
You must not sell your good Canadian S-car to yet another US buyer. We need
to keep the bred strong :-)

Mark (Causing cross border stress yet again) S
----- Original Message -----
From: "Robert Myers" <robert at s-cars.org>
To: "Ken Ng" <ken_ng11 at yahoo.com>; <s-car-list at audifans.com>
Sent: Tuesday, May 20, 2003 9:47 PM
Subject: Re: [s-cars] Service Indicator - reading OIL???


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> At 06:00 PM 5/20/2003 -0700, Ken Ng wrote:
>
> >My 95 UrS6's service indicator/trip odometer (below
> >the main odometer - where ln 0/ln 1/ln 2 usually flash
> >on start-up) is reading "0IL"... lasts for under 5
> >minutes and disappears...
> >
> >checked the oil and everything looks fine - (oil
> >change less than 2500KM ago)... car drives fine....
> >
> >anyone have any ideas on what this is trying to tell
> >me? I don't have a VAG-COM and can't find anything in
> >the owner's manual to shed light on this...
> >
> >help appreciated...
> >
> >Ken
>
> Ken,
>
> It's trying to tell you not to change the oil yourself but to take the car
> to the Audi dealership where they can change the oil for you and then use
> their VAG 1551 to reset the oil change interval until the next time.
>
> Now, ways to take care of the annoyance yourself:
>
> 1.      Do what the car is telling you to do.  (Ex$pen$ive)
> 2.      Disable the odometer LEDs so that the flashing light doesn't flash
> anymore.  (Perhaps undesirable.)
> 3.      Take the car to the dealership and politely ask them if they will
> reset it for you using their VAG 1551.  (Depending on the cooperation
level
> of the dealership this might either be satisfactory or not.)
> 4.      Invest in the VAG-COM software and do the rather simple job
> yourself.  (Expensive if you do it only a few times but the cost is a
fixed
> cost which does not increase every time you do it.)
> 5.      There is another software package designed to do the same as
> VAG-COM but on a different platform (Palm Pilot?)
> 6.      Forget about it and learn to live with the annoyance.
> 7.      Sell the car - quickly.
> 8.      Cultivate the friendship of someone possessing VAG-COM or the
1551.
>
> Have I overlooked anything?
>
> _____
>
> One nation, under surveillance. :-(
>
> Bob
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