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Old Apr 17, 2008 | 03:13 PM
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Resetting service light

Anyone know how to reset the Service light on a 2007 SL550? Thanks in advance
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Old Apr 17, 2008 | 04:26 PM
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Anyone know how to reset the Service light on a 2007 SL550? Thanks in advance
Do a search on "resetting Service reminder". I have 3 MB's and the reset is a little different on each model. It is quite simple but does differ from model/year.
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Old Apr 17, 2008 | 04:37 PM
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Originally Posted by lkirchner
Do a search on "resetting Service reminder". I have 3 MB's and the reset is a little different on each model. It is quite simple but does differ from model/year.
Thanks! Yes, I did a search on Google and Yahoo, with no useful results.
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Thanks! Yes, I did a search on Google and Yahoo, with no useful results.

He meant do a search in this forum by using the forum "search" feature at the top of the page.
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Old Apr 17, 2008 | 06:05 PM
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Originally Posted by Klinh
He meant do a search in this forum by using the forum "search" feature at the top of the page.
Yes, excuse me, I did that first. No results.

Finally called my salesman. He gave me the directions
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Could you post

Could you post the directions they gave you?
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Could you post the directions they gave you?
Sure. Happy to.


To reset the SERVICE light all you have to do is the following:

1. Turn the key to the ON position but do not start the engine.
2. In the mileage window, display the SERVICE "X" light. Press once.
3. Then press and hold for 3 seconds

That's all there is to it. The SERVICE light will go out. It will go to the next service schedule.
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Originally Posted by tomd
Sure. Happy to.


To reset the SERVICE light all you have to do is the following:

1. Turn the key to the ON position but do not start the engine.
2. In the mileage window, display the SERVICE "X" light. Press once.
3. Then press and hold for 3 seconds

That's all there is to it. The SERVICE light will go out. It will go to the next service schedule.
I found this via search and thanks so much for posting it. There are multiple very official methods posted for the SL reset procedure including some on Benz letterhead. I tried them all and some are patently wrong.

This one worked.
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It is a PITA but is possible, i do not have all the info at my fingertips, it is at home somewhere but i just did it myself two months ago. The key is the following

Turn key and then his the rest button 3 times before the airbag light is done (You have to hit it three times within 2 seconds)

This will get you into the engineering screen.

From there you should be able to navigate the menus and get to the reset for oil. The tricky part then is you need to turn the key an additional click forward to get it to take. I cannot recall exactly when but if you experiment with it like i did it will magically work. Then you just turn the car all the way off and then turn the engine on and you will be happy that it is all set

If you search google with something like 2005 mercedes fss reset you will find one a post for i believe it is a CLK - the process is the same for our SL's
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