That's the way mine behaves. The problem is repeatable and a definate bug, but mine is an 05 C6M6 and I would have thought they fixed it by now.
Oil Life Reset While Driving????
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Drifting
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Oil Life Reset While Driving????
So I am tooling along on a 200 mile drive today. I am flipping through the trip info button. When I start the drive it reads 58% oil life remaining. After about 150 miles I go through again and it says 99% oil life remaining. I had not stopped or turned off the car. Just driving along at a steady 75-80 on the interstate. Any one have this one happen before? C6A6 @3000 miles. I am changing the oil this weekend but it sure makes me question the indicator.
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Someone here reported having the oil life counter reset to 100% when they reset the Elapsed Timer option. Of course, you could have hit the reset button while you were previously displaying the % Oil Life left.
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Drifting
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I did reset the elapsed timer. It was running and I reset it to 0 and restarted it to time some mile marker passes. Bet that was it. Wonder how they fix that one? I will let it run down a little and see if I can get a repeat.
Thanks.
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I'm the One
I am the guy who posted about this a month ago or so. I had been messing with my elapsed time, resetting it while driving. Next thing I knew, my oil life remaining was 100%! After learning here that it was a common problem, I've stopped using the elapsed time. Oh yeah, I got my oil changed, too!! It speeded up my search for an oil-change place with a driver-over bay.
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Racer
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I am the guy who posted about this a month ago or so. I had been messing with my elapsed time, resetting it while driving. Next thing I knew, my oil life remaining was 100%! After learning here that it was a common problem, I've stopped using the elapsed time. Oh yeah, I got my oil changed, too!! It speeded up my search for an oil-change place with a driver-over bay.
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Even though it reset, you could give it a few weeks of typical driving and based on how much it goes down in those weeks and milage of your last oil change calculate a good ballpark guess when it would have said to change the oil next.
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I tested this today after changing the oil. I put the car in run mode (engine not running) and instead of re-setting the oil life I started the timer and re set the timer a few seconds later. The oil life re-set to 100% by re-setting the timer.
Does GM have a fix for this?
..jack
I tested this today after changing the oil. I put the car in run mode (engine not running) and instead of re-setting the oil life I started the timer and re set the timer a few seconds later. The oil life re-set to 100% by re-setting the timer.
Does GM have a fix for this?
..jack
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07 C6 Z51 MN6.
I tested this today after changing the oil. I put the car in run mode (engine not running) and instead of re-setting the oil life I started the timer and re set the timer a few seconds later. The oil life re-set to 100% by re-setting the timer.
Does GM have a fix for this?
..jack
I tested this today after changing the oil. I put the car in run mode (engine not running) and instead of re-setting the oil life I started the timer and re set the timer a few seconds later. The oil life re-set to 100% by re-setting the timer.
Does GM have a fix for this?
..jack
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07 C6 Z51 MN6.
I tested this today after changing the oil. I put the car in run mode (engine not running) and instead of re-setting the oil life I started the timer and re set the timer a few seconds later. The oil life re-set to 100% by re-setting the timer.
Does GM have a fix for this?
..jack
I tested this today after changing the oil. I put the car in run mode (engine not running) and instead of re-setting the oil life I started the timer and re set the timer a few seconds later. The oil life re-set to 100% by re-setting the timer.
Does GM have a fix for this?
..jack
http://forums.corvetteforum.com/show...light=oil+life
