Good post! I'll point out to the North American crowd that our vehicles don't have this feature so this cannot be tested, but this information is probably of use to the rest of world crowd.

 

Hey aircooled, If this trick doesn't work on the US. models, than what does?

Cya

 

Hey aircooled, If this trick doesn't work on the US. models, than what does?

Cya

It does not work for we do not get the message in the first place. So nothing to reset. It is only a ROW feature.

 

Thx buddy ...it worked perfect

Same scenario with me... 2 days After a servicing the Service Now came on.

 

This is great when you dont have VagCom. But for those of you who do, you can both reset the service reminder and also choose the interval in terms of miles/km and days. I have a US model with Europe variable extended service interval of 30.000 km or two years. Just have to make sure to use the long interval oil and filter.
The ECU calculates according to driving style so with my driving style I usually change with 20.000km intervals.

 

Where with the vagcom can one change the service interval from the stock interval?
And does it have to be changed at the time of a service (eg, 5K, 10K, 15K etc) or can you update anywhere in between and get the proper message at the new intervals?
Thanks

 

With the recent versions of VagCom this is pretty easy. Go to 17-Instruments Adaption-10 and change your settings. Full instructions at: Ross-Tech: VAG-COM: VW Service Interval Reminders
Now SRI-reset is a special function that you perform when you have oil-service done. Resets all the counters at once instead of the old version one at a time in specific order. You can even reset before the reminders show up.
The guys at Ross-Tech have really done a great job !

 

I did a write up on SRIs a while back as I work with Uwe in getting this ID'd. You can set your own service interval, just see my post on it.

We do get a service reminder in the US. When you reset it though, assuming it's not the 3k standard, it will take up to 300 miles for it to show "miles to next service". Have no idea why it takes that long but it could be tied to the ROW and extended service life even though asaik there are no sensors to determine that.

siberian

 

This worked for my 2005 v6 petrol thanks




Awsome it worked for me here in AUS on my 2005 v6 petrol thanks a heap

 

Just done my 05 v6 diesel worked a treat cheers ?

 

OK,

Tried this on my 04 V10 with no success, no message as others has stated, it was like Dead Horse

However......

I played about a bit and found the write up is slightly flawed:

Original in post #1

1- press the milage resetting switch on the cluster while the car is off.
2- turn the key once, so the lights are on, but the car is off ( dont start the car )
3- after you do that, a ( service reset ) messege will come on the screen. simply press the wheel button on your steering wheel to accept.
and thats how i did it.
its very simple, and it should be somehow similar to touaregs with different options.
enjoy!

Modified:

1- press the milage resetting switch on the cluster while the car is off & Don't Let it Go till ALL steps are completed!!!!

2- turn the key once, so the lights are on, but the car is off ( dont start the car )

3- after you do that, a ( service reset ) messege will come on the screen.

4- simply press the wheel button on your steering wheel to accept.
5- you can now let go the "mileage reset"

Hope this is of use to some members \\/

 

OK,

Tried this on my 04 V10 with no success, no message as others has stated, it was like Dead Horse

However......

I played about a bit and found the write up is slightly flawed:

Original in post #1

1- press the milage resetting switch on the cluster while the car is off.
2- turn the key once, so the lights are on, but the car is off ( dont start the car )
3- after you do that, a ( service reset ) messege will come on the screen. simply press the wheel button on your steering wheel to accept.
and thats how i did it.
its very simple, and it should be somehow similar to touaregs with different options.
enjoy!

Modified:

1- press the milage resetting switch on the cluster while the car is off & Don't Let it Go till ALL steps are completed!!!!

2- turn the key once, so the lights are on, but the car is off ( dont start the car )

3- after you do that, a ( service reset ) messege will come on the screen.

4- simply press the wheel button on your steering wheel to accept.
5- you can now let go the "mileage reset"

Hope this is of use to some members \\/

This procedure DID NOT WORK in my Aussie '08 TDI, all it did is reset the trip meter to "0".

TonyB

 

How about for a 2008 V6,same as above?? Thanks..

 

Try it I guess

 

Funny how one day something happens like , the service message erupts and then the next day , while cruising your favorite touareg forum the answer falls into your lap.
Saved me getting out the vagcom too, cheers guys.

 

will this work in a 2011 touareg t3?

 

hello peps, need help on how to reset the service light in the cluster of 2011 t3....

 

No need for anything complex

Go to screen tap car

Tap service
Tap reset service interval

All done

 

By the system it's reset. Every time I start the truck the cluster say service now and has the caution sign

 

I went to the dealer, they reset the service message, but as I start the car the message came back. Any body knows how to reset this? It's a 2011 Tuareg tdi

 

Mine is in the MFI,isn't yours?

 

Along the same lines ...

BUT, recently finished two very long trips in my '13 T3 VR6 gasser so perhaps those with '11's and forward may have run into this. Current mileage sits at a little over 7,900 so an oil change would be due in about 2,100 miles to reach the magic 10K mark --- but the 'service soon' message is coming up on each restart --- another 2,000 + miles seems like a LOOONG time to keep warning the owner (as well as the ~ 265 day reminder, T-Reg went into service 12/8/12) but perhaps it's because the car 'knows' of my two recent almost 3K trips in less than a month and could 'see' that I would want to know this if I plan another one? I would think a 500 miles or less reminder would be more appropriate but have others run into this?

Now that my long trips are pretty much done for the year and I don't expect to reach anything close to 10K for another 10 or 11 weeks (average about 175 miles a week on work commutes or only 9,100/year) this could get annoying; other than totally resetting the reminder is there a way to 'postpone' it until say the 250 or 500 miles to go mark? I confess I haven't checked the manual yet but if others have already and changed this that would be helpful.

 

Many thanks to the O.P. for this information, it works for me in my UK 2005 Touareg.

Regards

RalphyB

 

I have a 2012 TDI. It was recently serviced. It still says overdue inspection service. Have tired the odometer reset thing above. It did not work. I have also reset the interval service on the car settings menu. Any help anyone?

 

my dealer had trouble with resetting the INSPECTION service interval as well the 60,000 km one. It has to be reset via the computer. Under instruments module 17, adaptations, then the distance traveled since last inspection service needs to be manually input to 0. After this is done , you need to reset the service now indicator by hitting the button in the nav under service. My dealer took 3 hours trying to figure it out without success, and in the end I did it myself with my Vag com in about 3 minutes.

 

I had this going on in a used 2007 Treg that I picked up in Feb. Got to resolve it in the 17 instrument adaptions. Found that the last service reset was over 2665 days prior - in other words, it was never done and none of the prior owners or servicer's ever reset it, or didn't know how. Other than that, it is a pretty good running VR6 with only 48K miles.

 

Nice job! Works for me on touareg 2003, V6 3.2Bow Down

 

This worked on my 2003 T1. Good informative post, finally got rid of that annoying service message.

 

change turbo in my 2004 Vw Touareg v10Tdi
, is it an hard job?

 

Does this also work on the T3?

 

if you read through the thread the T3 resetting method is explained. It's different than the T1/T2.