Re: Oil change light

[feb@febsun.cmhnet.org]

A few days ago, Jeff McMeekin wrote:
>The oil change indicator on my 95 A6 started coming on when I
>start the engine from around 9000 miles.  Having just had it
>serviced at 7500 that doesn't make much sense (the next service
>is at 15k but living dangerously I think I will change the
>oil at 11000).  How does one reset things so that whatever
>is causing that indicator to come on, will stop doing that.

The exact same thing happened to my 95 A6Q just last week.
Right at about 9000 miles the "oil" indicator in the trip odo
area started flashing when the ignition was turned on.

My dealer had performed the 7500 service just 6 weeks earlier.

I stopped by the dealer and asked them about it last weekend.
The service manager said, yes, they probably just forgot to
reset the code.  He said that to reset the code they have to
hook up a laptop computer to the car and go through a procedure
that takes about 15 minutes in all.


As far as burning oil, I haven't noticed any problems with
oil consumption on my car (knock wood.)


I do have an annoying rattle somewhere inside the dash
that I can't decide what to do about.  The rattle started
out very quiet last April when I got the car, and has only
just recently gotten a little louder.  You can hear it
anytime the road is not perfectly smooth.  It doesn't matter
if you're going 25 or 75, you can hear it about the same.

The rattle is annoying, but I'm not sure that I want to try to have
it fixed just yet, because
(a) I fear that to fix it the dealer will have to tear the
    whole dash apart and put it back together, and chances
    are that they will never get it back together correctly,
and
(b) the rattle is quiet enough that they may not be able to
    find it when they open up the dash, so I'm holding out
    and waiting for the rattle to become really nice and
    obvious, so that it will be easier to find.

The last thing I want is for the dealer to tear the dash completely
apart and put it back together without being able to find and fix
the rattle.  That's my worst case scenario:  I still have a rattle
and now the dash is poorly assembled.


Franco

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Franco E. Barber
feb@febsun.cmhnet.org
1995 A6Q