[MINI-Morgan]

ECU Reset using the speedo diagnostic controls:

1) Hold in your odometer reset button and at the same time turn your key to position 1

2) Release the odometer button and then press it repeatedly until it shows the #19

3) Stop at 19 and the display will go back and forth between "test on" and "off"

4) Push the button when it is on off and the press it repeatedly until you get to #21

5) It will display an option to reset. Press the button and your displays will go blank and your guages will flutter and then the displays will come back on

6) Turn off the key and then your done

 

[MINI-Morgan]

Thats a hell of a lot to do lol

I remember a day when all I had to do on a ford was to remove fuses 4 and 11 for a few mins and the start engine

Takes you 30seconds max though.....

 

[MINI-Morgan]

Nice tip! can this be added to the FAQ and DIY as i think its very useful when mods have been done to a car to let the ecu reset properly!

I believe it is on one of the FAQs but certainly isnt coming up in search. Thats where I first ever read it myself.....

 

[MINI-Morgan]

As Partsman stated, this is really not an ECU reset at all. My understanding in all of this (having spoken to several tuners) is that the only way to really reset the ECU is to actually flash it.

Now, that being said, people "claim" that the car feels different after the dash reset but there is no proof and when I did it to my MINI I felt no difference. Maybe my butt is not sensitive enough.

Ummm the only correct way to do it is how I do it with my laptop and using the proper ECU development tools. Nothing else that I have found lets you reset so much e.g. all the adpations (Theres many of them). Well unless you go to BMW anyway and then they can do the same.

But like I said above that reset was taken from the FAQs a while back and it does seem different after it has been done. but maybe my butt dyno just went numb and I was getting different sensations.