Hi all, I have tried to remove this from the dash several times but to no avail. is there  anyone nr BURY Lancs who could help thanks Mick

 

You must be doing it wrong, you simply hold a button down while switching on the ignition then you can reset it, try different buttons until you find the right combo

Have you tried looking for youtube videos?  A few here: https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=mk1+fabia+insp+reset

I always forget from one time to the next, especially as the Polo and Fabia technique is slightly different.  In fact last time the Fabia showed INSP I used VCDS to get rid of it. It's in one of the adaptation channels for the Instruments module.

 

Thanks to you both, I read the Haynes manual, but they omitted the clockwise turn Thanks again

No sign of clockwise turn in my ( 04 MK1) manual .

Since this seems to be a regular problem, I've copied the relevant page from my user manual . Hopefully this will not breach copy write laws.

 

thanks for that

 

I was struggling with that too! Everyone says "turn the reset button" but you try to do it and it feels wrong, like there is nothing to turn. I thought I had an older dashboard or something. There's no feedback, no click, no movement. Actually that's what you are supposed to do, turn it gently and hold there for a second and that's it. It works.

thanks ,I have sorted the problem thanks again

49 minutes ago, 1200cc said:

I was struggling with that too! Everyone says "turn the reset button" but you try to do it and it feels wrong, like there is nothing to turn. I thought I had an older dashboard or something. There's no feedback, no click, no movement. Actually that's what you are supposed to do, turn it gently and hold there for a second and that's it. It works.

On mine, turning the trip reset one way advances the clock in hours, whilst turning the trip button the other way advances the minutes. Pushing the trip in resets the trip. AS per my copy of manual resets both insp and oil I've always had to this all the time I've owned the vehicle as I don't trust the local stealer and have used indies, who don't seem to know how to reset trip. I'm old school and use my service record to keep track of services, brake pad & shoe replacement etc.

26 minutes ago, VWD said:

On mine, turning the trip reset one way advances the clock in hours, whilst turning the trip button the other way advances the minutes. Pushing the trip in resets the trip. AS per my copy of manual resets both insp and oil I've always had to this all the time I've owned the vehicle as I don't trust the local stealer and have used indies, who don't seem to know how to reset trip. I'm old school and use my service record to keep track of services, brake pad & shoe replacement etc.

 

Mine's exactly the same, you have to hold it in while switching on the ignition to reset the service indicator.

2 hours ago, 1200cc said:

I was struggling with that too! Everyone says "turn the reset button" but you try to do it and it feels wrong, like there is nothing to turn. I thought I had an older dashboard or something. There's no feedback, no click, no movement. Actually that's what you are supposed to do, turn it gently and hold there for a second and that's it. It works.

 

There are two switches on the back of the instrument cluster circuit board that the trip button presses on when turned/twisted...

 

Edited 15 May, 20197 yr by TMB

TMB- I presume that's an old PCB, or you handled it using up to date ESR  precautions, else it's  also now a potentially fried PCB and it now comes with fries  fries ( chips ) on it. ( as in a fast food place saying "do you want fries with that?")😎

It's from a scrap cluster I bought for spares/to examine. However you can handle them as much as you want and nothing will happen unless you stand there rubbing balloons before you touch it.