BMW service indicator lights can come in very handy, no matter what year BMW 3 series you own. From brake pad sensors, air conditioning warnings, oil service lights and check engine or service engine lights, your 3 series dash can look like a Christmas tree at times. While the reminders to take your BMW in for service or much needed maintenance is handy, these lights can also prove as a distraction or annoyance.
That’s what our guide is here for, to show you How To Reset Your BMW 3 Series Service Light. We won’t be stopping at just the service light either, and show you how to reset your BMW oil service light as well.
Most of our instructions are for the 2001 and up BMW 3 series, although these instructions may work for earlier models. Today we’ll be showing you how to reset the BMW service light in a 2002 BMW 325i, although this process is very similar for most 3 series of this generation.
To begin our How To Reset Your BMW 3 Series service light DIY article, you will need to get into your BMW and insert the ignition key. With you sitting in the drivers seat and with the key inserted into the ignition, you will follow these steps.
- Locate the odometer knob and depress the reset button. Keep your odometer reset button depressed as you turn the ignition to the “ACC” position.
- Continue to hold down the reset button until the word RESET shows up on your BMW 3 series dashboard.
- Once your BMW 3 series flashes the RESET, you can release the odometer reset button.
- Once you let go of the odometer reset button, depress the reset button again and hold until five green lights show up on your instrument cluster.
- If all five LED’s light up green, you have successfully cleared the Service Light warning indicator.
To learn how to Reset Your BMW 3 Series Service Light correctly and this method does not clear your service light correctly, you can try this alternate method. This alternate method is perfect for resetting the brake pad warning lights in your BMW 3 series.
To begin this alternate method, get into the car and insert your ignition key much as you did in the previous example and instructions. Do not depress the gas or brake pedal and wait for your SERVICE indicator to disappear.
- Depress and hold the odometer reset button until the warning triangle appears on your instrument cluster. Keep the odometer button depressed until the oil can appears on your screen.
- You should now be in the programmable BMW 3 series service menu, used by the dealer to clear these annoying lights and reminders. Use your BMW toggle switch on your combination switch to scroll through the options in your service menu. This is known as your condition based service items, which can all be selectable through the toggle switch.
- Now push the BC button on the end of your BMW combination switch and this should trigger the RESET on your dash. With that RESET indicator on and lit, push and depress the BC button for another 3 seconds to finish resetting your SERVICE reminder. You may see a OK or a DUE message on your dashboard.
BMW Condition Based Services also known as CBS are a vital part of owning your BMW 3 series. This dash display can give you conditions for each segment of the BMW body control ECU or control concepts. This colored triangle display gives you a real time readout of what your BMW 3 series sees as potential maintenance service items.
– Orange for normal
– Yellow for service due
– Red for service overdue
The number underneath your dash display readout will give you how much mileage is left in the specific condition.
That does it for our How To Reset Your BMW 3 Series Service Light DIY Guide, if you have any questions or comments please leave them for us below.