Hi T, This shocked me a little this as I have always serviced our Fiats after the warranty period. If its *locked* to the Fiat examiner for re-setting the service interval indicator its going to be quite a pain when running two Fiats long term and doing DIY.
Currently we have a 2 Fiats that
don`t have a service indicator to reset.
But my wife is right at the point of buying either a 1.3 Panda or ( more likely) a Multijet Grand Punto new from our local Fiat dealer. She has already test driven one but has still to decide.
We have discussed it and will cancel the planned purchase if we have to pay to have a service indicator cancelled. As we have saved a small fortune over the years doing our own servicing. To be honest its the principle and time involved as well as the money ( what is it about £40 each time?)
Is there not an over ride option on the console its self?
Or we could switch to one of those `used car supermarkets` and pick up one of the last of the old models. When did Fiat switch to Dealer only service indicator resets?
Regards
I enjoy servicing my own cars though and knowing a thorough job has been done.
( I am not implying a dealer does less) There is the cost saving too, but the main issue is being free to service your own car and that being an interest and a hobby.
IMHO, its not the DIY service thats the potential problem regarding resetting the service indicator. But rather someone who does not service the car at all and then pops into a main dealer and just pays for a service indicator reset.
Regards
I think we are both saying the same here and both being diplomatic.A problem I find that if someone does their own service (not saying you by the way) is that they miss things that a tech would be aware of,
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Fact is though my multijet got a 3/4 litre overfill of engine oil at the (warranty) dealer service recently.
I have a vaccuum extractor so it was a moments work to suck it back out.
Also really would not want someone to be given a B***icking on my behalf, so I let it go.
Stan, there`s an active discussion here about Fiat service indicators.
http://www.honestjohn.co.uk/forum/post/index.htm?t=48432&m=543639
Ooops didn't make that very clear did I
I meant 'afraid not' as in you cant do it yourself...dealer has to reset with examiner.
Apologies,hope that cleared it up
You need to buy a car specific ECU tool prices 14-145£. I am going to get one soon the pricier end to be able t reset the service light and read error codes. I think if you google the subject you will find he same answers I have. www.gendan.co.uk thinkAfraid not.