Inspection Lights

[Rudders666]

Hi all,

Does anyone know of an easy way round the Inspection light on a 318i SE? I'm pretty sure it doesn't actually "need" an inspection and therefore the system needs resetting.

Cheers kids,

Pete

[waynne]

Hi Peter and welcome to Torquecars. Those Pesky service lights can be a pain and BMW would have you believe that they are the only ones that can turn them off.

Here are some pointers in the right direction (method 1 is obviously the best method but the others have proved sucessfull).

1) Peake Research tool can reset this
2) Ground Pin 7 for 3 seconds for the Oil and 12 seconds for the service.
3) Stick a bit of Gaffer tape over the dash!

Hope this helps and as always if your car blows up we accept no liability or responsibility etc......

[Rudders666]

Thanks for that but what is a Peake Research tool? And the pin 7 an doil and la-dee-daa means nothing to me, lol, sorry.

I'm a bit of a novice at things under the bonnet i'm afraid though i do intend to learn at length.

Cheers mush,

Pete

[waynne]

This link should answer your question :-

http://www.peakeresearch.com/

If you don't know where pin 7 is then we'd best leave method 2 out!

[fingers]

Hi Pete. What year is the BMW? n the later ones you don't actually need a service tool, you can do it by pressing the buttons for your trip counter in a specific order. Does yours have an electronic trip meter or an old style revolving one?

[Rudders666]

My Beemer's a 1996/7 on a P. It's digital display with the 4 or 5 green lights then the yellow and then the red inspection lights.

I've heard from a mechanic (a friend of mine) that works for BMW that all you need is a test lamp and doing the old pin 7 thing that Waynne was talking about. As well as bleeding the brakes to and shutting off the braek inspection light also.

[fingers]

I will have a look in the manual at work tomorrow to see if you can "trick" the ecu with the trip buttons to put it out. Suprisingly, its usually very simple.

[Rudders666]

Cheers for that Fingers. Let me know what you glean from it