Comments on: Reset BMW E36 oil service light

By: James

James — Sun, 17 May 2009 18:57:15 +0000

Cheers Tony, that worked a treat.

Any news on the ‘air bag’ light? I too took my steering wheel off and the airbag light is permanently on.

By: lee

lee — Thu, 14 May 2009 22:08:15 +0000

Hi,
I have a 95 318 e36 the reset trick worked very well thank you.

Just wondering my car runs at 1000 rpm tick over when first started, but when its been running and gets warm it goes up to 1500 rpm and seems to be racing a little at tick over.

Is had a full service and runs well just the rpm at 1500 tick over when warm seem to high.

Is this normal or is there something wrong ?

Lee

By: Daniel

Daniel — Sat, 09 May 2009 16:34:48 +0000

Thank You!!! You helped me so much, it worked great ;)))

By: kevin Newman

kevin Newman — Fri, 01 May 2009 16:51:42 +0000

Hi mate great I reset my oil lights. but got a couple of other faults you may be able to help with! 1) my fuel gauge reads empty all the time and 2) when i put the ignition to position II after a few seconds the radiator fan starts up even when engine cold eg car been sat for 2 days and this stops internal blower gowing and turns off the hot cold air instument panel, one thing i do know though saw one of your other posts about the air bag light this means it’s charged to go off and should not be driven as it could go off without a crash and cause one!!

By: devon

devon — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 03:51:20 +0000

Than you so much for the help!

By: Will Hunt

Will Hunt — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 16:35:16 +0000

Hi, I just used your article to reset the oilservice lights on my ‘M’ reg 318i, it worked first time & I now have 5 lovely green lights! Thanks a million !

By: Tony

Tony — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 20:45:23 +0000

David, back on Feb 14th, the noise is most likely the heater valve which is back on the right side bulkhead as you look in the engine bay. If you put your hands on it whilst the noise is happening you will feel the noise. Sometimes the valve will just keep on knocking and no other troubles, sometimes not. Check what is happening with your heater in the car, sometimes working sometimes not? If you go on ebay and put in BMW heater valve there are always some on there so you can see what it looks like. Common problem.

By: willie mchugh

willie mchugh — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 10:25:23 +0000

hi tony i have a 316i 1999 compact. can you tell me where the abs relay is please

By: mark

mark — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 01:41:32 +0000

hi new to this have a bmw 320i e36 1992 overheated replaced pump thermo aux belt plugs and one coil pack(seemed to have cracked and hard gunk was leaking out)all plugs were light brown ,car now has erratic idle removed and cleaned the icv but still lumpy in stationary mode rpm 1000 drops to about 800rpm back to 1000 (hunts)then settles at 800rpm however the car still has an idle vibration even though the rpm indicator seems stationary on 800rpm.also the dial cluster stopped functioning ie petrol/temp/rev/rpm stopped working replaced with second hand unit this now seems fine.inspection light needs to be reset will follow your instructions. car has done 300 miles with this idle problem and even going 80 mph on the motor way the car seems to have no ill effects i e no white/black smoke temp gauge centre posistion no overheat even with this problem stood in traffic for nearly one hour temp moved to 3 quaters never stalled seems fine but this idle shuddering is doing my brains in any ideas???????????????

cheers mark

By: tony

tony — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 18:12:23 +0000

hi i have the ABS light on on my 1996 316i is there a way of turning it off untill it’s annual test time in june? thanks Tony