Oil Life monitor

[BlackLine]

How do you get this to tell you the oil life percent, when I press the button all it says is OIL LIFE, most cars have a percent left. Just curious

[Sp00ner]

I don't think it does that, since the computer is calculating it constantly. That, or it just dosen't have the nice half of the feature. When you press the trip button, that's the prompt to reset to oil counter. If you hold that in, that's what resets it after you change the oil.

[JPK]

No. It doesn't have that feature.

My oil chng light came on thursday of last week. I had changed the oil twice before that without ever seeing it. It came on at about 4000 miles since the last one I did.

[Tom01SC2]

Originally Posted by JPK

No. It doesn't have that feature.

My oil chng light came on thursday of last week. I had changed the oil twice before that without ever seeing it. It came on at about 4000 miles since the last one I did.

You reset it every time you change your oil? If yes, you must be driving her pretty hard, lol. I'm going 6k between changes. Well except my first change which I did at 3k.

Tom

[John]

Originally Posted by Tom01SC2

You reset it every time you change your oil? If yes, you must be driving her pretty hard, lol. I'm going 6k between changes. Well except my first change which I did at 3k.

Tom

did you say every 6000 ... every 3000 is highly recommended by myself and saturn.

[JPK]

Originally Posted by Tom01SC2

You reset it every time you change your oil? If yes, you must be driving her pretty hard, lol. I'm going 6k between changes. Well except my first change which I did at 3k.

Tom

No. I didn't reset it after my 2nd oil change. I did after the 1st though.

And when I changed the oil friday I reset it again.

I didn't think that the computer did it according to mileage on our cars. Doesn't it sense when to change oil by how it's driven and driving conditions and such?

[John]

Originally Posted by JPK

No. I didn't reset it after my 2nd oil change. I did after the 1st though.

And when I changed the oil friday I reset it again.

I didn't think that the computer did it according to mileage on our cars. Doesn't it sense when to change oil by how it's driven and driving conditions and such?

it does jpk factors mileage, temp, starts, drive time etc.

[bbrazil]

My girlfriend mentioned her ION 3 has a switch in the oil filter housing that resets the computer whenever you change the oil filter.

I don't know if there's any truth to that, but it would be a cool way to do it...

[Sp00ner]

Originally Posted by John

did you say every 6000 ... every 3000 is highly recommended by myself and saturn.

Maybe you should suggest that they state that in the manual. It's pretty vauge about it, in fact my old Saturn said 6,000 miles or when the light comes on, and every 3,000 if you drive the car in extremly dusty or hot environments. Same with the Redline manual. I've always went with 3,000 miles as a change point, but there is a lot of discrepency in your manuals it seems. I mean, 87 octane and 6,000 mile oil changes? Gotta fix that shit man!

[John]

Originally Posted by bbrazil

My girlfriend mentioned her ION 3 has a switch in the oil filter housing that resets the computer whenever you change the oil filter.

I don't know if there's any truth to that, but it would be a cool way to do it...

nope it dont same as the redline.