So this is the first Hyundai I've ever owned and I purchased it for my wife after I decided not to buy my 6th Honda Accord in a row. In general, it's been a nice little car. Good gas mileage, comfortable ride and handling. Not very good acceleration compared to other 4 cylinder cars I've driven but it suits my wife just fine. Basicially it's just a nice little car. Anyway, today I decided to perform the first oil change since we picked the car up new from the dealer. The car only has 3500 miles on it but I started getting messages that it was time to service the vehicle. The message didn't specifically say anything about an oil change but the salesman told me that he set the vehicles computer up to indicate that service is needed at 3750 mile intervals and he said that's when I should perforn the first oil change. So I managed to change the oil and filter and I have to say that it was a bit of a PITA because the bottom of the engine has a plastic cover over everything and that cover had to come off in order to access the oil drain and oil filter. After i got the car buttoned back up I checked the owners manual to see if I could reset the oil minder but there are no instructions on how to do that. In fact I'm not quite sure that Hyundai's have oil minders at all. The closest thing I came up with was lited under "User Settings." I changed the service interval to 5000 miles and am wondering if thats all I need to do. does anyone have any experience with this? Is resetting the service interval the same as resetting the oil minder on my Honda? Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks.
-Valentine
-Valentine
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