Google Education Wins Again

Let me start by saying that this may be obvious to a lot of people, I am a bit simple when it comes to cars, I am in my early 30's and have only been driving for a little over a year, I know a lot about certain bus routes, bus and train times, how to get a bus pass and have it automatically renewed but car stuff is like witchcraft to me.

Learnt something new today in my quest to 'understand my car', so I thought I would share.

I had a car service earlier in the week and realised that the garage hadn't reset my service indicator, which beeps at me ever time I start the car.

I spoke to the garage today who said they do not have a method of resetting the indicator, as their engine management tool only finds fault codes but doesn't do anything else.

Their recommendation was to go to a larger garage that should be able to do it for me, but he warned me that as with everything there would be a cost attached. Not particularly happy about this outcome I reached out to my search engine friend and tried the first thing it said, which worked a treat.

I should probably add at this stage that Google is not my master and I do not always follow what it says, this is clarification for all those people who still would come out with the line 'if google told you to jump off a cliff, would you do it', to which the obvious answer is of course 'probably, as long as doing so makes the google screen animate in a way that blows my tiny mind'..

So if anyone cares how I did it, here's the science bit:

1. Press and hold the button on the instrument panel next to the fuel gauge.

2. With the button still pressed, turn the ignition key, not to start it, just the first click.

3. A ten second countdown appears on the screen, when this stops (mine stopped at -1) your service indicator will have reset.

This worked for me and apparently also works for Picasso's too.

Thank you Google!!