itsbrokeagain
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My girlfriends car has been serviced at an independant garage and they have not cleared the spanner symbol from the instrument screen.Any ideas on how this can be done without having to go to the dealer?
Technical How to get rid of service spanner
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Technical How to get rid of service spanner
Dealer only im afraid.
I second that statement
Cha-ching £££££££££££££££££££££ 
some private garages can do it, got some leaflet other day for buying service re-set tool for the fiat 500, think it was £139.99 to buy, you could probably buy it and lend it out for £20 a go to people soon make your money back.
soon make your money back.
I can't even remember what i had for dinner last night let alone what I was posting weeks or months ago
Anyhoo a quick googling says that yes there is a service reset tool for the 500
http://www.spdiagnostics.com/index.php/products/serviceresettools/fiat-service-reset
and another
http://www.sealeytools.co.uk/vehicl...-with-oil-degradation-function-fiat_7358.aspx
This time with a price.
http://www.toolstop.co.uk/sealey-vs8623-service-reset-tool-with-oil-degradation-function-p12252
I would certainly buy one but I'd be asking for people to pay the full price as a deposit as you simply can't go around sending it around to people on the internet and not expect for someone to either never return it or break it.
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Shame that neither can reset the oil degradation counter on the 500 1.3MJT.
About as useful as a chocolate fireguard for an MJ owner then.Shame that neither can reset the oil degradation counter on the 500 1.3MJT.
True, however that was me just thinking out loud. :doh:
The main thing is that it will do what was asked for in the thread title.
itsbrokeagain
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Thanks for that, i find it astonishing that car companies bother to create these things in the first place,who needs a spanner to tell them that their car needs a service. I reckon she will have to take it to the dealer and get charged at least £30 just to turn a symbol off. A guy used to work with had a disc which listed every make and model of car and how to get rid of symbols by pressing buttons in a coded sequence, i remember it had puntos and pandas on it but i think it was too old for the 500.
If they were supposed to turn it off for the service, then they cannot charge you for turning it off if you take the car back!
With most cars there's a sequence to distinguish these lights, left indicator, right, left then right again or something similar on an Audi for example!
Took my car to a garage the other day, they swapped the wheels front to back for me and charged £5, i gave them a tenner because i thought it was too cheap!
With most cars there's a sequence to distinguish these lights, left indicator, right, left then right again or something similar on an Audi for example!
Took my car to a garage the other day, they swapped the wheels front to back for me and charged £5, i gave them a tenner because i thought it was too cheap!
It's an independent.If they were supposed to turn it off for the service, then they cannot charge you for turning it off if you take the car back!
With most cars there's a sequence to distinguish these lights, left indicator, right, left then right again or something similar on an Audi for example!
Took my car to a garage the other day, they swapped the wheels front to back for me and charged £5, i gave them a tenner because i thought it was too cheap!
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Shouldn't matter, if they serviced the car they should have done everything on their checklist, which I'm sure would have included "checking for service due message/light and distinguishing as necessary"
And how do they do this if they don't have the tool?
I think it's astonishing that you find it astonishing.
For every 1 person that knows when there car is due a service there is probably 50 people who don't.
And I'll bet almost everytime someone has blown up an engine that's 50,000 miles past it's last service they complain that it's upto someone else to tell them it's due.
We are a world of people who constantly needs their arses wiped for them. Everything is someone else reponsibility. Take Draig and the independant should fix it. If they don't have the tool they don't have the tool.
You took it to an independant therfore you have to expect them to not be able to offer full dealer service.
Want your arse wiped for you take it to Fiat. Want stinky finger nails? Buy a cable, some oil, an oil filter and a set of spark plugs.
Sorry Itsbrokeagain. Reading that back, it sounds like I'm having a dig but I'm not honestly.
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Venters is back in the 500 forum
Like you say people want their arses wiped for them and are happy to have a car that reminds them that the car needs a service but don't want to pay to have the service light turned off.
itsbrokeagain
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I am just frustrated that it is a cynical way for dealers to make money. Independent garages are cheaper because they don't have all extra nonsense of dealers but if they have to continually buy tools to turn off non essential symbols and put prices up then its a shame. Whats wrong with having a button to reset stuff like that and if people ignore the warnings and their car blows up then thats their stupidity.
Because Fiat need to cover their butts. If you want to opt out of this sort of stuff then buy an old Lada and be done with it. If you want to have a new car it's going to need to be fettled properly by someone with all the equipment and you need to pay for that.
1) Dealers have nothing to do with service lights, thats up to the manufactuer.
2) Independent garages are not always cheaper, big dealership chains have massive buying power and are often ruthless and can slash costs/labour charges to get work.
3) If someones car blows up then they cry 'watchdog' even though its their fault. I have seen many engines with seized or uneconomical to repair engines yet strangely with fresh oil in it (as if thats going to fool anyone!) if customer cant or should I say wont check there oil yes they deserve whats coming but when it actually happens its a different story.....it just suddenly happened
