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But don't worry, you will be at moderate risk of the car breaking down before 10,000 miles and you can't fix the part because it has been deliberately engineered so that mechanics can't fix it and it has to be replaced.

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[–] john_brown@hexbear.net 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

Can the cheap OBD2 tools reset maintenance intervals, TPMS, etc? My perception was you had to spend a lot more to get scantools that would do that stuff. Newest car I've owned is a 2001, newest bike a 2009 and it was still carbureted, so I've never dealt with the modern stuff personally.

edit: and just to vent, I work on a family member's car pretty often and it's a 2014 - it has no dipsticks. You have to work through a bunch of menus and idle the car until warm before the dash will give you an actual oil level reading. I hate modern cars.

I'm not sure if they can reset the maintenance intervals. All the cars I've owned or worked on, those are reset through menus or other means.

Also 100% agree on modern cars. One of my dads vehicles needed a special factory tool to change the sparkplugs. It's complete bullshit.

[–] Carl@hexbear.net 3 points 1 day ago

2014 - it has no dipsticks

That's wild, but it's a problem with specific models/manufacturers, not the entire industry. i have a 2018 car and a 2022 motorcycle and both are pretty maintenance friendly.

[–] Bartsbigbugbag@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 day ago

Don’t you typically reset the dash lights through codes in the cab? Like, my maintenance light resets by doing something like turning the key five times and pushing a button, I can’t remember because it’s been a few years.