Battery compartment sticker

[WhiteD3]

After 4 years of ownership I've just noticed this sticker. I assume it's saying "count to 120 seconds before disconnecting" and is not the instructions for the master reset! Which I've just had to do after washing down the engine bay :angel:

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[bbyer]

What is a Master Reset?

It does not sound good and seems like something I would like to avoid, particularly as a result of a cleanup in the engine bay.

Is it that procedure where one disconnects both battery cables from the starting battery, (and also any aux batteries), and then touches the positive and negative cables together for 30 seconds or so after making certain the 3 has gone to sleep? And yes, I know the cables do not have enough slack in them to easily touch together so one has to jumper them but ....

That procedure is I understand, supposed to discharge some capacitors and remove many but probably not all of the false error codes, but I wondered if there was another procedure as well.

Also thanks for deciphering that label. I have been looking at it for some time and could not figure it out.

[~Rich~]

Hard Reset = Master Reset :)

[WhiteD3]

[QUOTE=bbyer;1457029]Is it that procedure where one disconnects both battery cables from the starting battery, (and also any aux batteries), and then touches the positive and negative cables together for 30 seconds or so after making certain the 3 has gone to sleep? QUOTE]

Yes. Interesting to use a DC multimeter to short the leads and watch the systems dissipate the power.

[CaverD3]

Or wait till the park brake light goes out.