Hey everyone, so I changed my oil about a week ago or so and changed over to synthetic, and still have no leaks so that is awesome. Now here is my question. I was scrolling through display on my guage cluster and was looking at things like my MPG and what not. And I also looked at my oil life. On the 7th gen (not sure about older models) you have the ability to look and see what you're oil life is at and it will say like 80% life left or something like that as an example. Well when I looked at mine it said 34% which is what it was at before I changed my oil. I would think that it would update and tell me I was at a much higher percentage. Does anyone know if you have to manually update it, or should it update automatically? Hopefully that all makes sense. Thanks guys

 

Any time you change your oil, you need to reset the Oil Life Monitoring system (as the car does not know you did this). This is part of the reason I still use a window sticky with my changes (I am never 100% sure how much I trust the monitoring system). On my '04 Monte, it's done via the radio.

If you have the owner's manual it should state in there how to reset it.

 

Alright, that makes sense. I appreciate it man

 

You reset your oil life by holding down the checkmark button on the dash.

 

Im like you Jason...I reset it.(Cause I hate Idiot lights) I depend more on my window sticker.

 

X2 for the 7th gen. Navigate your way so that the oil life is displayed on the screen. Then hold the checkmark button till it resets.