Oil Service Warning (Comes up in the miles bit)

Arnoldo · Post by **Arnoldo** » Mon Dec 18, 2006 8:57 am

Mines just come up. A bit confused tho. Got the car serviced about 6 months ago @ 16,000 miles and now shes at 21800 miles and its come. Scared the crap out of me tho as I thought I was running without any oil in her. Checked her and shes fine. Anyone know why this comes up? Also how often do u service u polo?

Cheers

Ian_R · Post by **Ian_R** » Mon Dec 18, 2006 1:44 pm

Arnoldo wrote:Mines just come up. A bit confused tho. Got the car serviced about 6 months ago @ 16,000 miles and now shes at 21800 miles and its come. Scared the crap out of me tho as I thought I was running without any oil in her. Checked her and shes fine. Anyone know why this comes up? Also how often do u service u polo?

Cheers

Check your manual, But if i recall correctly its every 10000 Miles or every 6 Months, Which ever comes first, No need to worry bout it mate, i ran for that on for about 2000 miles before i could be bothered to get it all sorted

just a small service you need, oil filter and new oil

ModifiedMadness · Post by **ModifiedMadness** » Mon Dec 18, 2006 3:48 pm

It's usually 10,000 or 12 months whichever is first, if they changed the oil etc last time, they may not have reset it properly.

It happened to me when I bought mine, VW serviced it before I picked it up but didn't reset the service interval, so it came on prematurely.

Bepe · Post by **Bepe** » Mon Dec 18, 2006 5:29 pm

and some times if you have it serviced at a non genuine vw garage they dont have the correct tool to reset it properly, mine has done this on several occasions, i think all in all 3 warning lights have come on

Arnoldo · Post by **Arnoldo** » Mon Dec 18, 2006 7:10 pm

Ye went to VW today and he explained exactly what u guys said. Thxs V much. O and I didnt go to VW for my last service

ModifiedMadness · Post by **ModifiedMadness** » Mon Dec 18, 2006 7:58 pm

Bepe wrote:and some times if you have it serviced at a non genuine vw garage they dont have the correct tool to reset it properly, mine has done this on several occasions, i think all in all 3 warning lights have come on

I'm pretty sure you can reset it yourself mate, there's no special tool.

Arnoldo · Post by **Arnoldo** » Mon Dec 18, 2006 8:04 pm

How u do it?

Redline · Post by **Redline** » Mon Dec 18, 2006 8:15 pm

http://www.tigerstyle.co.uk/poloforum/v ... hp?t=21512

With this very handy guide, sat right at the top of the Mk5 forum

Arnoldo · Post by **Arnoldo** » Tue Dec 19, 2006 3:52 pm

polo power · Post by **polo power** » Tue Dec 19, 2006 11:00 pm

special tool no special tool needed for this job appart from your finger lol

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