prius oil change alert?

No. According to the owners manual oil changes are every 5,000 miles. I guess it is just making sure you know where to go 2,500 miles from now.

 

Since you have NAV, you also have a fairly extensive calendar feature included with your Prius. Punch the INFO button up on the MFD, and explore the options up there. You can "schedule" all sorts of maintenance items, and then the car will give you periodic reminders of what's due when. Personally, I find this a little annoying, and have deactivated all the reminders, but that's just me. Hey, I LOVE this car, but really, I can tell when I need new wiper blades -- I don't need the car "reminding" to get new ones (yes, it'll tell you that too sooner or later...). I'm guessing you're new to the car, and someone had messed with your dates, and you're seeing meaningless reminders. Again, explore your MFD some, find this function, and do with it what you like.

 

i don't know much about the nav system since i don't have one in my car, but could it be set to 6 mo/5k miles whichever comes first? have you had your car for 6 months?

 

As already posted, it's just a reminder from the calender function. Some dealers put reminders in there when you take your car in for service. Go in and clear out the ones you don't want.

Tom

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(mayathystle @ Apr 29 2007, 09:10 PM) [snapback]432368[/snapback]</div>

No, it only means that some greedy dealer set the NAV maintenance reminder for half the recommenced distance in order to profit at your expense.

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(mayathystle @ Apr 30 2007, 06:22 PM) [snapback]432840[/snapback]</div>

I have that feature. When you set the oil change you can set any distance you want, but you also set any time you want, so it may have been set for 5000 miles or 3 months whichever came first. You can go in and reset the reminders yourself. It is easy. This won't affect the 5,000 mile maintenance required light because that is a different reminder.