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Originally Posted by rawkus
TO CLARIFY EVERYTHING PLEASE READ. I'm Dan and I am a service advisor at a local Honda dealership.
You CAN check your next recommended service using your Maintenance Minder system without reseting it, even if your at 90%.
Press your select/reset button to get to the oil life screen, then press and hold for about 10-20 seconds, and your display will indicate what services are due next. If you TAP select/reset again, it will not reset the maintenance minder system. If you want to reset the system, follow your owner's manual. I DO NOT RECOMMEND reseting your MM system without having the service done. Hope this helps.
Dan
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Here is my situation:
-bought my car in April 2006
-one year later (April 2007) my Oil Life was to 50%, but I had the oil changed as recommended in the owner's manual; I then reset the maintenance minder
-I've yet to have any maintenance codes appear
So, after reading Dan's suggestion about checking the next recommended service, I gave it a try and a B1 code appeared during the "test". To me that suggests (or perhaps proves) that resetting the MM also resets any maintenance codes, regardless of whether they are currently appearing, or are in the "background" waiting to appear. My reasoning behind this is that I should have seen an A1 code at some point, but it must have been cleared out when I reset the MM in April 2007.
Knowing that a B1 is the service that is due next is helpful, but I have no way of knowing
when the service needs to be done. Or should I just have the service done the next time I take my car in for an oil change?
I find it hard to believe that Honda simply "forgot" to account for this situation (ie people who don't drive a lot), when they designed the MM. Perhaps they wanted to keep the MM as simple as possible, and felt that complicating the system to benefit a small percentage of drivers wasn't worth it...