Service Indicator come on early

[ccaasjf]

Hiya,

Yesterday my service indicator came on saying 19 days or 5000 miles to a service, the car is 2.5 years old and has done 26k miles. I checked the log book and the inspection service (3yrs) is due in Sep or 35k miles.

After ringing my local swlondon dealer i was told the service indicator sometimes comes on early if driven in a city due to filters getting clogged up.

Previously I had a brake fluid change at 2 years old and 1st service after 1st year and 15k miles.

Anyone else have any experience of why it would come on early?

Regards
Simon

[ub7rm]

Are you on time and distance or 'long life' servicing?

Long life is only long life if you do a lot of gentle motorway miles.  It usually works out worse than time and distance if you do a lot of stop start / city type driving.

If it is long life, its probably right.  Best to change to time and distance servicing - better for GTI's regardless of the type of driving you do, but use the longlife oil.  Plenty threads on this if you search ...