As some of you may know, I dislike French cars, mainly because of their excess complexity and high spares prices. Anyway, I agreed to do a general service on a '52 plate xsara petrol 1.8, only because I had previously serviced the owner's Vectra. Once serviced I tried to reset the service indicator, followed the latest instructions from Autodata : press and hold the 000 button and turn on ign. Nothing happened, no countdown, no reset of the spanner symbol (which is what should happen)
When starting the car the dash displays a message "arrange service"
Does anyone know precisely what this means? Does it need some sort or CPU reset? I ran a Launch X431 scanner on it, but no faults show up.
I have asked various friends in the trade, but they haven't come across the problem and could not help.
I have given the car back to the customer, but I would like to sort this if I can, rather than have him take it to a Citroen dealer.