reseting service light(I know its been askeda thousand times

[rvrboy]

Hi, where can I get a picture of the pins to use for my Pre facelift e30.
Cheers Gerry

[poolnoodle]

My local BMW garage will reset mine for nix but I have been going there for many years and had to ask nicely

[rvrboy]

Thanks for the reply Willnz, Will get it done tomrrow
Cheers Gerry NZ

[Brianmoooore]

The pin numbers are marked on the socket if you look carefully. The reset pin is number 7 in both types of socket, and the other pin is just an earth.
7 is easy to find on the later socket - it's the one straight in front of 'pacman's' mouth.
I usually use an earth somewhere else (rear bonnet catch bracket is my favourite), because it halves the number of pins in the socket I have to identify, and my test lead I use for the purpose has a croc clip on one end.

[e301988325i]

is that the inspection light and the little clock too for brake fluid?

[Brianmoooore]

All are reset by earthing pin 7 for different lengths of time.

[pac1982]

i did this on mine with help from the above peeps, but it only did the inspection light is there a way to do the oil lights as well?

[Brianmoooore]

All are reset by earthing pin 7 for different lengths of time.

[transatlantic0207]

do it with a paperclip be happy you used an item that costs less than a penny over a tool that cost $100+ or even worse paying a some tire changer an hour clock time at the stealership!

just bend the paperclip and stick the ends in the two hole #7 to reset and #19 the ground and turn the key to the second position...leave the paperclip in for i think 5 seconds and the oil is reset and 10 seconds will reset the service light

have fun and i'll come get my pint in september!

[The_Diddler]

just done this with my new service board, oil and inspection illuminated, now 5 green light and all is good, was fully serviced about 150 miles ago


Thanks guys for the info

[capri_rob]

Just done this following the service work I did on the car Yesterday

[daimlerman]

I do not trust myself with bits of wire,I bought the proper tool about 4 years back for less than £15!

[penton08]

the proper tool is now less than a tenner from gsf.

[transatlantic0207]

a paperclip is less than a penny

[Brianmoooore]

the proper tool is now less than a tenner from gsf.

And can only be used for one thing! My piece of wire with a croc clip on each end has dozens of uses.

[capri_rob]

I can confirm that the paperclip method works

[Ollie_bwoii]

I reset my lights, but after a day the inspection light came back on!

[asmith88]

a couple of bits of wire do the trick, an inline fuse woudnt hurt either