the maintinence required light is on in a 2000 civic Si. changed oil every 2500-3000 miles and about to change spark pulgs. it is really annoying me. it is my cousins car and i told him get it check but he says it been there for a while, i dont know just looking out!!!! thanks

tomy_r

 

With the key off, press and hold the Set/Reset button on the gauge cluster. Switch the key to On and hold the button until the light goes out. Nothing to get checked out, it's just an Annoy-O-Light.

 

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yeah it doesn't mean that the ecu detected a problem and go to the dealer to get ripped for a diagnostic check. The light is set by mileage to determine when to illuminate

 

turns on every 6k usually to remind you to change ur oil. but that ***** usless who the **** changed their oil every 6k

 

There are some super-lazy bastards out there that don't even change it that often... my friend got tired of that thing and took it out of his si cluster and put in a CTR bezel... no more light

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by hayabusa160 &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote"> who the **** changed their oil every 6k</TD></TR></TABLE>

well.... don;t ever buy a SAAB. my mother bought a 9~3 turbo and spec for oil change is 15k! i told her she is a moron if she does that, but she said she will trade inthe car in a few years soo...

 

UHmmmm, EM1s don't have maintenance required lights. They have that little green thing that turns yellow after a while and then red. Take your key and push in on the little black thing next to it. Should reset it back to green.

Unless you're talking about the Check Engine Light. That's a different story. You should do a search for the codes page that was bouncing around here a while back.

 

well dont mean to be an ***, but i think my owners manual for my 94 civic says to change it every 7k or every 4k for "severe" conditions. so changing it every 3k is always a nice habit(i do it myself) but i don't think it is necessary.

 

7500mi oil changes are fine if your running synthetic. Pry ok if your using dyno oil too. 3000k mi is absurd now-a-days, unless you have a bad blow-by problem.

I change mine when the indicator goes to red. about 7,000mi. Mobil 1 5w-30

 

I work at Toyota and I see alot of gunked up engines from lack of a oil change. I did some work on a Avalon that a customer put over 12 thousand miles on it with out a oil change and it was already getting sludged up. Sad thing is the car only had 19,000 miles on it. Seeing those cars come in on a regular basis makes me change my oil every 3 thousand religously.

 

my freind has a kia with over 10000 on regular oil that thing has oil cacked on those rockers, its nasty and runs like ****, he doesnt care though, thats why he drives a kia

 

thank lot for the info yall, **** it is better to hear from yall than paying the dealership the wasted money. thanks a lot anyways it was really helpful.