My older son (also an indy BMW mechanic) and I have successfully used the reset procedure described in the Bentley 5 Series (2004 - 2010) Service Manual (Maintenance, pages 020-3 through -6). Their example includes an overdue oil change reset (negative mileage).

Note that the instructions state that the vehicle date and time must be correctly set.

HTH,
Jim / crewzer

 

i always have the time set correctly. well it may not match the atomic clock time though.

like i said before, my mechanic and i have both done it before and it was a breeze. the procedure above was how i did it before and also my indy mechanic.

i also found the following additional variation to the above procedure that folks said they needed to do to get it work, and none of them worked either. the additions were:

1. make sure to clear the tripmeter
2. make sure the date is displayed
3. make sure to hold down the blinker lever
4. make sure to push down the i-drive knob
5. make sure the oil service screen is displayed in i-drive
6. do another quick click of the tripmeter button right before the reset prompt

nothing is working. nada. nooooooooooothing. i think they fkd me with a firmware update.

 

How about drivers's seat belt buckle inserted?

 

buy a bmw obd 2 cable and get a copy of BMW TIS for your laptop run it in vmware (google is your freind on this)
you can do so much more with this and defianetly reset any of the counters .

 

ok i googled bmw tis and it just looks like its a software based repair manual. are they just not advertising the fact that it resets oil / service intervals also?

 

TIS is not going to do anything for you besides give you technical documentation. If you're talking about OSS on www.bmwtis.com that's a different story. But not any OBD cable will work.
E60 has the CAS module and no off the shelf OBD reset tool is going to work for this as they did for E39,E46 etc
I've seen this with the battery recall several times. In this forum I have seen at least 4 people have the same issue after taking their car in for the recall. I have a feeling it has something to do with hooking the car up to ISIS and not actually updating the entire car after changing the vehicle status