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Model specific boards => Golf mk7 => Topic started by: fifthflaw on 23 June 2014, 11:16
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Hello
service indicator has just went on to indicate i need an oil change. When I bought the car I was meant to get 2 years free servicing but never received any written confirmation. Now im assuming an oil change would be outside the scope of that but is it in the service schedule?
Does anybody have a rough idea of cost for the oil change. I have the car on a PCP would it be ok to use an independent rather than a dealer?
Thanks in advance guys
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I assume its just the service now reminder popping up? If so the 10k service is just an oil & filter change IIRC.
Service plan is associated to your Reg/VIN and you should have got a letter in the post (which I've never needed when booking service) - may still be on their system though.
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Its just the little spanner along with oil change in 28days?
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I'm in the same position as well. 12 days till i need an oil change. I was hoping to hold off and just get it done at the same time as the first year service which is due at the end of July. I'll probably book the car in at the beginning of July for both. Whether its an additional cost over and above the service I have no idea.
Oh, and my oil light is on and i've only done 7,500 miles approx
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I'm going to ring a couple of dealers in a bit. I'll let you know
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Chaps - the first service and an oil change are one and the same thing!
The service reminder light should not come on until the car is one year old or has covered 15,000Km (9,400 miles), whichever occcurs first. If it comes on before either of those then you can wait until either one does occur (its possible that the service computer was not 'zeroed' at the time you collected the car from new so in that situation it can come on earlier, thinking its one year old).
This sounds like the situation with your car Craig - just wait until its first birthday to get the service done (provided you don't go over 15k Km in the meantime of course!).
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Chaps - the first service and an oil change are one and the same thing!
The service reminder light should not come on until the car is one year old or has covered 10,000 miles, whichever occcurs first. If it comes on before either of those then you can wait until either one does occur (its possible that the service computer was not 'zeroed' at the time you collected the car from new so in that situation it can come on earlier, thinking its one year old).
This sounds like the situation with your car Craig - just wait until its first birthday to get the service done (provided you don't go over 10,000 miles in the meantime of course!).
Ah thanks for that Mark. I remember with my TT that the oil change used to be separate from the service so just assumed it was the same with the Golf. :smiley:
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Its scary to think a few of us have nearly had our motors one year. Time flys when your having fun.
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Mine is going in for it's first oil service this Friday. Just hit 9k after 7 months it's truly a brilliant car, can't fault it :)
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Just had mine serviced at 9,400 miles.
Now I have a very strange scenario.....
Imagine going into your nav system and viewing the service details. A few months ago I had something like:
Oil Change 2,000 miles
Inspection 12,000 miles
All looks fine.
Now I have this:
Oil 9,400 miles
Inspection 10,200 miles
I first thought the technicans had misprogrammed the services intervals as it seems insane to carry out an oil change then about 500 miles later carry out an inspection. So I phoned VW Bradford and the lass on the service desk agreed it sounded odd, so she spoke to the technican and it is correct - that is the service interval!!
Has anyone else encountered this? It seems very odd to change the oil and 500-700 miles later carry out an inpsection.
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Just had mine serviced at 9,400 miles.
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Oil Change 2,000 miles
Inspection 12,000 miles
All looks fine.
Now I have this:
Oil 9,400 miles
Inspection 10,200 miles
So few months ago (i.e. 2000 miles unless you went over) it showed inspection due in 12k miles.... now it tells you it's 10k.
What's so surprising (12k - 2k = 10k after all) ? Inspection was not done as not due, as this has 20k interval in the UK (30k km in metric countries), oil change interval is 9.4k (i.e. 15k km) when not on longlife, so the dealer did only do the oil change.
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Yes I agree with the intervals you state. That's not the issue.
my computer now shows 9,400 approx for oil and 10,500 approx for inspection. That to me means in 9,400 miles time I'll have another oil change and then in less than 1,000 miles an inspection. Not even a Ferrari has a service interval that frequent.
I'd expect the inspection in 10k and the oil change stating 20k, not 9k miles. VW Bradford says this is correct and I find it very hard to believe
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Got mine booked in for 25th July so we'll see what happens when they reset the service intervals. I'm also getting a complimentary healthcheck carried out apparently :rolleyes: :rolleyes:
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@ Raymondo... your car's coded for fixed time service interval not longlife... with longlife you could get up approx 18k miles for oil change.
Just get oil change and inspection done together next time round and both reset.
PS: You'd be surprised on oil change intervals on Ferraris and other supercars.
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If the oil change interval is 15 000 km then my car had its oil changed prematurely at 8 000 km as the car's computer requeste.
The warning message for oil change within 30 days came on as the car was in at the dealer for the suspension strut bearing replacement, so at the dealer they changed the oil for new long life oil, had the oil filter replaced, and made a "servicing" which apparently only included visual inspection of the brakes..
I don't know what the car's computer says about next service interval now i will have to check..
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You're on longlife intervals... with that you can go UP TO 30,000km or 2 years (whichever is sooner).
If you only drive short distance, city traffic etc it will ask you for a service much sooner. Especially since you have actual winters in Stockholm too. 8000km seems a bit short, how many months did it take you do that mileage?
Longlife tbh is only ever really good for high mileage drivers (like myself @ 40k miles / 60000km a year), if you don't drive a lot you're probably better off with 15000km / 1 year intervals for oil change.
PS: Any good spots for camping round Stockholm (going on a Scandinavian road trip in a few weeks, DK, SE, NO, FI)?
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Ok I see,
Well the car was built in may 2013, and in traffic since october 2013. Oil was changed in june 2014 after 8 000 km.
so roughly 9 months. I didn't refill it during this time, although I was planning to because the oil stick showed close to minimum level somewhere around march. But the oil change interval computer beat me to it :)
Yeah well I don't really drive much only 15 000 km / year. Many of my journeys the engine gets warm but the oil temperature doesn't have time to get anywhere near working temperature! I believe this makes the oil absorb moisture, and seldom have a chance to evaporate it. It is a good thing the oil change interval computer compensates for this type of driving!
Camping - I'm sorry but I don't really know. :undecided:
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My GTI is booked in for its first oil change this Friday. It's only done around 9,300 miles which is some way short of 10,000. I'm guessing the sensors in the engine have detected that the engine oil quality is poor hence the early warning.
* While it's in I'm getting the dealer to look at the the squeaky front suspension and loose rear spoiler (mentioned in other threads)
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My GTI is booked in for its first oil change this Friday. It's only done around 9,300 miles which is some way short of 10,000. I'm guessing the sensors in the engine have detected that the engine oil quality is poor hence the early warning.
* While it's in I'm getting the dealer to look at the the squeaky front suspension and loose rear spoiler (mentioned in other threads)
It's a continental round-up. They don't ask for a change at 10k miles, they ask for it at 9400 miles which corresponds with 15000km, when the continentals have their fixed distance interval.
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My GTI is booked in for its first oil change this Friday. It's only done around 9,300 miles which is some way short of 10,000. I'm guessing the sensors in the engine have detected that the engine oil quality is poor hence the early warning.
* While it's in I'm getting the dealer to look at the the squeaky front suspension and loose rear spoiler (mentioned in other threads)
It's a continental round-up. They don't ask for a change at 10k miles, they ask for it at 9400 miles which corresponds with 15000km, when the continentals have their fixed distance interval.
Bl**dy swizz that :wink:
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Mines on 9600 miles now, demanding an oil change every time I switch on, getting done a week on Monday. I think you're ok (warranty wise) less than 11k miles.