Technical Service message
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Technical Service message
Your service is due in 30 days? See if it says 29 tomorrow.
Did think that, was serviced 3 months / 1500 miles ago.... but wasn’t prompted by car, just part of MOT
TrevC
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My wife's showed the same a couple of months ago, even though it had been serviced, on schedule, last July. It was bought from a non-franchised dealer and I suspect they don't always reset the warning "clock". If you ignore it the message changes to something different when the service is "overdue", then goes away after another couple of weeks.
Piccolo Nero e Bella
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My wife's Pop has been displaying "Service Coupon Expired" for several weeks now since it clocked up 30,000km (it's now about 1200km over that). It's over five years old but has been serviced regularly. Since it doesn't get seen by FIAT dealers I suppose the message can't be reset?
We've had our car 4 years and 35,000 miles(now on 84k) its never come up as far as I know though I've seen "service" in the menu options on our 59 plate.
You certainly can reset using MES on the older cars.
As for the latest models, I've seen a rumour somewhere (not sure if it's true) that the service coupon can only be reset when the car is actually online to the manufacturer's server. If it is true, that will presumably make resetting such things a main dealer only option in future.
Another step backwards for the independent mechanic :bang:.
As for the latest models, I've seen a rumour somewhere (not sure if it's true) that the service coupon can only be reset when the car is actually online to the manufacturer's server. If it is true, that will presumably make resetting such things a main dealer only option in future.
Another step backwards for the independent mechanic :bang:.
Piccolo Nero e Bella
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Follow the link I posted in post 9 ...
TrevC
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Following the "gas pumping" procedure in the link above certainly didn't work on my wife's 65 plate (facelift) 500C 1.2 - I tried it umpteen times. However, as I said above, we ignored it and it went away after a while. Unfortunately I can't remember exactly how long it took, but it was at least a couple of weeks after it thought the service was due.
