Hello Peter: I appreciate what you are saying, which is that the application has the capability to reset both the oil change interval and the service interval. But I think you are missing my point. The existing button 'SRI Reset' in the current (non-beta) release of is described as "Automatically reset the service light for oil and inspection" (my bold). Well, as I noted
in my first post above, if you push the button, it doesn't do what it says it is supposed to do. All it does is reset the oil change interval. It doesn't reset the service interval. What I suggest as a fix for this is that after the user presses the 'SRI Reset' button, a dialog be presented with three options to choose from: 1) Reset Oil Change Interval, 2) Reset Scheduled Service Interval, and 3) Reset Both Intervals. The user then chooses which one of the three actions he or she wants,
and presses "Do It". The application would then programatically (by way of macros) carry out whatever actions the user selected. I fully appreciate your explanation of how to accomplish this by way of the step by step procedure you described above. But, it sure would be a timesaver if the application could automate the task for the user. There may be some vehicles out there that only support one interval. In that case, you could design the macro so that if an error was encountered
running the macro, it returned a plain language message to the user such as: "Scheduled Service interval not supported on this car, Oil Change interval was reset" (this if the user selected 'reset both' on a 2004 Golf), or "Scheduled Service interval not supported on this car, do you want the Oil Change interval reset?" (this if the user selected 'reset Scheduled Service only' on a 2004 Golf). Perhaps you could get the application to check and see if the vehicle supports all the various
adaptation channels required for oil and/or service interval reset immediately after the user presses the 'SRI Reset' button, and only present options that are supported by the vehicle. In other words, if the connected vehicle is a 2004 Golf, after pressing the 'SRI Reset' button, the choices for Reset Service Interval and Reset Both Intervals would be dimmed out, and the Reset Oil Change Interval would be the only one available (and thus selected by default), this because the 2004 Golf does not
support two different intervals.
What I am drifting at here is that the overall objective of the original suggestion is to make the application as easy to use as possible. Sure, the user can get the job done step-by-step, and the user can generally figure out how to do it on their own. But, it took me about 20 minutes to figure it all out the first time I came across an Audi that had two different intervals to reset. It would have saved me 19 of those minutes if the application had prompted me through the process. For a recreational user like myself, losing 20 minutes is not a big deal. But, to an automotive tech who gets paid by piecework, and who has a customer waiting to pick up the car from the promised "quick oil change and scheduled maintenance job", 20 minutes to figure it out on their own might not result in happiness for all concerned.
I believe that the key selling feature of is that it enables a VW technician to get work done faster and easier than the VW diagnostic scan tools that the dealership already has available. Therefore, every little bit of 'faster and easier' that can be added to will directly support increased sales of Ross-Tech products to technicians who work at VW dealerships... and I think that group of people is, perhaps, the single largest target demographic that are potential customers.
Michael
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