oil change question

[m3f_FLi GLi]

Thanks a lot guys for your imput..



This might be too late, but if you haven't done your oil change yet be careful...oil comes out of the oil pan at a fairly good velocity! I did not have my oil catch pan positioned correctly and lost ~ a quart on the garage floor when I recently did my first oil change on my "new to me" M.



I would suggest two things to avoid this mistake - 1) if you haven't already bought an oil catch pan, buy one with the biggest catch bassin possible (more surface area means better chance of oil stream hitting bassin) and 2) remove the oil drain plug VERY SLOWLY allowing yourself to see where the stream is going to hit and position your oil catch pan accordingly.



HTH,



FLi

[m3f_DesmoBob_e0fc43b145]

If I do the oil service light reset before the light comes on, does it reset the counter, so that now the counter will be synched with my oil change?



no, you have to reset it

[m3f_Sirius_880bd69485]

Under bmws contract, normally you don't reset the oil serivice light for just oil changes. The light also doubles as your inspection 1/2 lights too.

[m3f_ubersnax]

how does the service lights work..



i thought that for every green bar you change the oil .. and then when it gets to the red you get an oil service .. or whatever..



whats the deal

[m3f_DesmoBob_e0fc43b145]

Under bmws contract, normally you don't reset the oil serivice light for just oil changes. The light also doubles as your inspection 1/2 lights too.



if we are talking about this one:

http://www2.hawaii.edu/~roberto/desmobob_oil.jpg

that is the oil service light.



there is a separate indicator that says "INSPECTION" for inspection I/II.



closing the circuit between pins 7 and 19 for 4 seconds will reset the oil service light only. doing it for 15 seconds will reset the INSPECTION interval (whether or not the INSPECTION indicator is on).