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Last weekend, I was assisting the staff at my local VW dealer, and as part of that work, I was asked to reset the service interval reminder on a 2010 (I think it was 2010 - maybe 2012?) Audi A4, NAR specification.
I ran the VCDS macro that automates this task by pressing the 'Service Interval Reset' button, but the service reminder remained present in the instrument cluster. After a fair amount of digging and looking at adaptation channels, I discovered that this vehicle actually has two different reminder systems, one for oil changes and the other for scheduled service. It appears that each of these two reminders needs to be reset individually.
VCDS (the current 12.x release) documents the presence of these two different reminders very well in the adaptation section of the label file, but the macro for 'Service Interval Reset' appears to only reset the oil change timers, not the scheduled service timers.
This was the first time I have discovered a car that has two different reminders (one for oil change, the other for scheduled service). Perhaps there might be more cars out there like this, or perhaps this is something that VW AG is introducing to other product lines. In any case, I think it might be worthwhile to modify the 'Service Interval Reset' button application so that after this button is pressed, it presents the option of resetting the oil change interval only, the service interval only, or both the oil change and service intervals.
Michael
I ran the VCDS macro that automates this task by pressing the 'Service Interval Reset' button, but the service reminder remained present in the instrument cluster. After a fair amount of digging and looking at adaptation channels, I discovered that this vehicle actually has two different reminder systems, one for oil changes and the other for scheduled service. It appears that each of these two reminders needs to be reset individually.
VCDS (the current 12.x release) documents the presence of these two different reminders very well in the adaptation section of the label file, but the macro for 'Service Interval Reset' appears to only reset the oil change timers, not the scheduled service timers.
This was the first time I have discovered a car that has two different reminders (one for oil change, the other for scheduled service). Perhaps there might be more cars out there like this, or perhaps this is something that VW AG is introducing to other product lines. In any case, I think it might be worthwhile to modify the 'Service Interval Reset' button application so that after this button is pressed, it presents the option of resetting the oil change interval only, the service interval only, or both the oil change and service intervals.
Michael