2016-2021 Mazda 6 Oil Change/Service Light Reset Guide

Last Updated on October 2, 2021 by Nick

What’s going on, fellas! If you’re curious about how to reset the oil change or service light on your 2016 Mazda 6, we’re going to go ahead and do that today. You’ll know it’s time for an oil change because, on your dash, you’ll get the big wrench indicator in the middle of the screen.

Something to be said about the check to change your engine oil light is that when you get that light doesn’t necessarily mean you have lousy oil in your engine. It’s just that you know whenever you go to change your oil. So let’s jump into this and get this thing done.

2016-2021 Mazda 6 Oil Change/Service Light Reset Guide

2016-2021 Mazda 6 Oil Change/Service Light Reset Guide

Time needed: 3 minutes

Alright, guys, I’m in a 2016 Mazda 6 Grand Touring, and I’m going to show you how to reset the maintenance messages that come up on the dash. There this one is coming up for the oil change that’s due. So now all you need to do is:

  1. Turn on your car

    First, sit in the car with the key and then hit the START button twice until everything lights up

  2. Press the HOME button

    Next what you do is is hit the HOME button on the center console to bring you to the main menu

  3. Go to the APPLICATION

    Then you’re going to scroll over to APPLICATION and pull that up 
    oil change service light reset on mazda

  4. Select VEHICLE STATUS MONITOR

    After that, go down and select the VEHICLE STATUS MONITOR 

  5. Find the MAINTENANCE 

    Scroll down again to MAINTENANCE and get in

  6. Select SCHEDULED or OIL CHANGE

    From here you can enable and disable the scheduled maintenance and the tire rotation as far as the oil change. So we’re going to go into there and go down to RESET

  7. Adjust the interval or reset it

    Here you can adjust the interval to whatever you want or just reset it. When you select reset it asks you to reset, select RESET to confirm it

For your info, this operation work for the third generation of the Mazda 6 (2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021 model years).

So there we go. We’re done, so I reset the time in the distance as well. And the schedule is already set, and I can see that the wrench is gone. Let me know if you guys have any questions about resetting the maintenance messages on your Mazda 6. I hope this was helpful, and best of luck to you.

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