theyus

Hi,

I bought my brand new S550 about 3 months ago. However, today it is giving this reminder about maintenance A. Is this normal? The car only has 2,200 miles on it. When I called the dealer a few minutes ago, they insisted that it does require oil change now because the car was manufactured 12 months ago.

Is this oil change really necessary at 2,200 miles? Thanks in advance for you comments.

Tom

Chucky300

I think it is the complimentary Initial "welcome" service.

Diesel Benz

FSS should not indicate any complimentary service, or is this too different for US cars?

I sort of understand the dealer insisting on the service but honestly the same oil from the MB factory survives 2 years in Europe. I just had my car serviced the first time at almost 2 years and a bit over 30 000 km (FSS still indicated a few hundred km to the next service). But since the service rules are different in the US and one year from manufacture has passed, the dealer obviously wants the car serviced.

trumpet1

I believe the service reminder you're getting is due to an elapsed period of time, not an amount of mileage. You should not be having to get oiled changed until around 10K miles. Just have the dealership reset the service reminder but you will have to remember on your own to get it changed at 10K because now the car will not remind you until around 12000 miles or so and by then it will be too late.

AsianML

Service interval is 13k miles or 1 year, whichever comes first. Sounds about right.

Mercedes22

Yes my service intervals are in Days rather than miles.

theyus

Ok, called another dealer today about this "Service A" reminder. They agreed that it is not necessary to do it at 2,200 miles and reset it for me. I just need to remind myself after 8 months or 8,000 miles to go back for the real Service A.

Thank you all for your replies. Much appreciated.

Tom

steveb9771

I had the same problem with my CL550. The service "A" indication appeared when my car was 9 months past its manufacture date indicating that 1 year had passed. It appears that the service interval logic initially gets reset when the electronics module is manufactured. Dealers should reset it upon delivery for new vehicles, but sometimes forget to do this.