Morning problems !!!

[David_smith_909]

Driving to work this morning and i heard something go "poooooof" in my engine, wasnt going fast (only 20mph actually coz i just went past a lolly pop lady ) and the engine management light come on, then the battry light come on and turned my car off, pulled to the side of the road to have a look

found that one of the clips on my intercooler pipe is duff and it keeps popping off, so i pushed the pipe in as much as it would go (tricky as f@@k as the pipe was the one in the bumper), finished driving to work at 20mph and stopped about 20times to put this bloody pipe back on, going to get a new cliip at dinner

my question is tho, when i turn my engine back on, i get something saying "service" next to my mileage, whats all this about?? and how do i get rid of it??

 

[Steve_B]

It is to remind you that the car needs a service soon

You can get rid of it a few ways, take the car for a service, check in the book for the instructions on how to turn off the service indicator, do a search on here for how to turn off the service indicator or find someone with VAGCOM that can turn it off

 

[David_smith_909]

my car got a full service 1.5k miles ago though??????

 

[Jonzy]

Dont need vagcom to turn it off.

With the ignition off....

Press the trip button in
With it held turn ign on
Keep it held and turn to the right
Turn ign off

 

[David_smith_909]

turn the wheel to the right?

nice one jonzy, cheers mate

any idea why it came on? only just had a service, only came on when the pipe blew off this morning ????

 

[Forbez]

Buy a new, high quality hose clip!

 

[David_smith_909]

Buy a new, high quality hose clip!

yeah will do, the one i was using was the one neil gave me when he sold me the intercooler, think i will replace them all, just to be on the safe side

 

[Jonzy]

The indicator has nothing todo with the hose blowing, it comes on after a preset time/milage. You prob had a service done earlier than the car service interval indicator was set at.

 

[David_smith_909]

The indicator has nothing todo with the hose blowing, it comes on after a preset time/milage. You prob had a service done earlier than the car service interval indicator was set at.

that totally makes sense now, i had a service done at 46k but it wasnt due till 48k, but it had been 12 months since the last one so i got it done anyway, think iv just hit the 48k mark

 

[David_smith_909]

Dont need vagcom to turn it off.

With the ignition off....

Press the trip button in
With it held turn ign on
Keep it held and turn to the right
Turn ign off

just to confirm, is it the steering wheel that goes to the right or the little button on the stalk next to my ecu reset button at the bottom

 

[claudefrog]

lol.. its the little button

 

[David_smith_909]

thought so, wondered what the steering wheel had to do with it, turns out its got nothing

 

[Forbez]

PSML sorry but thats made me chuckle!!

 

[David_smith_909]

PSML sorry but thats made me chuckle!!

i can see why reading back on it

didnt work though, pushed reset button and held, turned on ignition and moved to right, turned ignition off and released reset button, tried going to the left also, both didnt work

managed to get a new clip tho for my intercooler, also put a thin layer of glue on the outer side of the pipe that goes into the hose, seems to have worked, only time will tell

 

[David_smith_909]

weird, just got off the phone from awesome, they said that you turn it off as it says here, still didnt work, then i reset my mileage counter to 0 and the message never reappeared ????????????? dont understand???? at least the message has gone though