Oil Service Indicator/Yellow

[Jehu]

Is this indicator triggered by the Odometer? I changed my oil a few weeks ago before this warning began to appear. Is there anything other than draining old oil, refilling with new oil, replacing old filter which required attention? How do i tell the car its had its oil service?

[DaveVoorhis]

How do i tell the car its had its oil service?
http://www.unofficialbmw.com/repair_faqs/sil.html#reset

[Jehu]

Wonderful,Dave thanks. Looks like i can live with it for a while. Good to know its just an idiot light and i've covered the base.

[Blitzkrieg Bob]

http://www.unofficialbmw.com/e36/electrical/e36_reset_service_lights.html

It is easier to do the reset with.

[ILoveMPower]

Yeah, all you have to do is ground it out in a certain pin for 5 seconds or something. My buddy did it for me and we just used a piece of speaker wire and grounded it in the engine bay.

[jbourke]

How can Jehu be a big, big time poster without knowing the service indicator reset trick? There must be something wrong with this board's service indicator ;-)

[Happy_Go_Lucky]

How can Jehu be a big, big time poster without knowing the service indicator reset trick? There must be something wrong with this board's service indicator ;-)

Maybe he is only a big big time poster and not a big big time thread reader :D

[Jehu]

I had a local BMW Dealership do it for me free today.

[E34-520iSE]

I use a pair of scissors

Cheers,

Shaun

[Dash01]

Wouldn't a bent piece of coathangar wire work just as well?

[CarloE34]

I allways take a speaker wire and put it 7 and 19.
19 is the same as ground.
3 seconds for oil
12 seconds for Inspection 2
2x12 seconds for the year inspection