How To Reset Oil Life/Oil Change Light On Chevy Traverse (2018-2023)
Last Updated on August 27, 2022 by Nick
Yo! Wassup. Today, I will be doing a quick walkthrough on how to reset the oil life or oil change light in a Chevy Traverse. This will also hold true for 2018 to 2021, and I believe any of those model years should line up pretty accurately with what we’re going to be showing you today.
So this is a pretty simple process, but I just wanted to go through how I reset the oil life and that kind of stuff if anyone else likes to do this themselves after an oil change. So without further ado, let’s get into it now.
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Resetting Oil Change Light On 2018-2021 Chevy Traverse
Time needed: 3 minutes
Here we have a 2020 Chevy Traverse, and we just did the oil change on it. And now we’re going to reset the oil life. So basically, what you want to do is:
- Put on the ignition without starting the engine
If your vehicle has an ignition button, press and holds the Start/Stop button for 5 seconds without stepping on any pedal
- Press the ◄ navigation button to access the cluster applications
Then you’re gonna have to move to the left, so click the left ◄ button and you’ll come up to this screen here that says Info, Audio, Phone, Navigation, or Options but you want to be on INFO
- Select the INFO
Once the INFO is highlighted you press the ✓ checkmark to enter
- Find the remaining OIL LIFE
Now you’re gonna scroll up or scroll down whichever way you want to go until you get on the remaining Oil Life
- Press the ► right button
Then you see how that is lit up right there so you push over to the right to find the reset option
- Select RESET
Highlight the Reset option and hit the ✓ checkmark
- Select YES
It’ll ask if you sure want to reset? Just select YES to reset and you’re done
How to Reset Oil Life with Up Level Display
- Turn on your car
- Use the ◄or►directional pad on the steering wheel to go over to the VEHICLE or INFO tab
- Once you get to the Vehicle tab you can press the up and down arrows to cycle the menu and you need to find the OIL LIFE
- To reset it you’re just gonna hold down the ✓ checkmark button until a question pop up
- After that, it’s going to say are you sure you want to reset? Now you’re going to press the up arrow to highlight YES and then press the ✓ button to confirm
For your info, this operation work for the second generation of the Chevy Traverse (2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, and 2023 model years). For the older ones, you can find them here.
When Should You Change the Engine Oil?
Your dad or grandpa might have always told you every three to five thousand miles and three to six months or something like that. But that old adage applied as a general for all cars, and all vehicles aren’t the same, and people don’t drive cars the same. So thankfully, we have the technology.
Now and most Chevy cars have an oil life monitoring system. It considers factors like engine revolutions, mileage driven, and temperatures the cars face to determine when your oil needs to be changed. Honestly, they’re getting pretty accurate, and I trust my oil life monitor, but I have limits.
So the oil life monitor starts a hundred percent, and at zero, it will tell you to change your oil, and my manual says get it to change within six hundred miles of that. Well, I go to about 20 percent. Once it’s under 20 percent, I do an oil change, and most dealers will require at least that or maybe even down to five percent with my average driving of twelve thousand miles a year.
If I were to take it down to zero, I think I get about nine thousand miles, and this is typical for many cars these days, but the oil life monitor is only as good as the person reset it.
FAQ – Chevy Traverse Service
5 quarts of oil are needed for the 2019 Chevrolet Traverse with the 2.0L inline-4 engine. Those who choose the 3.6L V6 engine in the 2019 Traverse will need 6 quarts of oil on hand.
2018 Chevrolet Traverse models require SAE 5W-30 full synthetic oil. The 5 in 5W-30 refers to the oil’s thickness or viscosity at cold start speeds, the W to indicate use in cold weather, and the 30 to indicate use at average operating rates. To find GM-approved engine oil, seek out the Dexos1-approved logo.
Since P0300 is a generic and randomly generated error number, it does not specify which cylinder is misfiring. What causes cylinders to misfire on their own is less precise than a fault code that is unique to a single cylinder.
On a Chevrolet Traverse, a P062F error code indicates a problem with the vehicle’s engine control module’s long-term memory performance.
So that’s what you need to do to get to oil life or oil change light reset in a Chevy Traverse. This tutorial will also hold true for most of your Buick and Cadillac models that are similar to the Traverse GM models. It might even hold for some of the other models with the V6 engine. So thank you for your time, and have a good day.
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jacob
Hi, I'm Jacob, and I have been passionate about automobiles since I was a child. I have spent countless hours assisting my father in his garage, learning everything there is to know about car maintenance and repair. For ten years, I ran a successful repair business, where I gained hands-on experience working with a variety of vehicles. As a result, I have developed a deep understanding of the mechanics of the car and have become an expert in maintaining and repairing any vehicle.
