I had my oil changed for the first time a week or so back. The local Jeep dealer changed the oil.

So tonight, I'm pulling out of the parking lot at work, I hear a single chime, and I notice the odometer display saying "Change Oil". It flashed across the display 3 times then went away.

I drove around for a while tonight, and everytime I turned on the engine, I got the same "Change Oil" display and chime.

Tonight I finally had to read the book about how to reset the "Change Oil" warning.

Turn the ignition switch on, but do not start the engine. Depress the accelerator fully 3 times within 10 seconds. Turn off the ignition.

I guess maybe the dealer doesn't know about that warning being in the 08, or at least they did not reset it when I got the oil changed.

Also, while I was reading the manual, I found out how to calibrate the compass. I haven't calibrated mine properly. I just drove it around in a circle, I didn't put in the local offset number.

Well, I tried what the manual said, but it did not reset the Change Oil warning.

So I went to the dealer and asked him. The service manager looked online, or wherever it is his computer is connected to and found the instructions, printed them out, and reset mine.

I guess I didn't push the accelerator fast enough or something. Anyway, he got it reset with no problem.

He tried to give me the paper that he printed, but I told him he needed to keep it and post it somewhere for his service techs to read.

An FYI....

I have about 2,500 miles on my KK. According to the manual, the Change Oil warning goes by driving habits, not by a set time or number of miles. I guess they figured with all the around town driving I've been doing, that 2,500 is time to change. Who knows, maybe the computer knew it was a new vehicle, and figured 2,500 miles was enough and it was time to get rid of the break-in oil.

Sometimes it does pay to read the instructions. It's a natural male tendency to not do that until you have to.

Terry

Thats about when ours came on too.....

the system can go and blow it self... I'll do the oil change when i want because im not going to have it tell me that i should change my oil at 6000 miles when it needs to be done at 2500 or 3000.

i'm using castrol syntec...it like 19.87 at wal-mart....with the SOS reading, you might be able to extend it that long but i will see how clean the sample comes back before i take action..on most of the tractors at work, by useing the SOS program, most owners are able to extend their service interval by an extra 250 hours....and by doing this, they save a boat load since the cheapest cat oil filter is like 20 bucks and with that amount of oil theses things take (10 gallon of 15w40 for a 330 excavator) it really makes since

This happened to me too but I just brought it back to the dealer to fix it, after all thats what I paid them for and its fun to teach all the service guys how to do it too. 3 service guys got in and scratched their heads.. then the lead mechanic had the bright idea to look in the manual.... they were my entertainment for the day.

If you knew how to fix it then whyd you bring it on back to the stealership??

BTW the stealership service guys aint usually worth a dam as far as mechanics go just an FYI Do the work yourself and do yourself and your jeep a favor...