Service Interval - low mileage

[Lee_dub]

I have a 140 gt tdi mate, what they like on them?

Still far too complicated I imagine!

[Colinv]

Far easier than the gti mate. The diesel engines are actually great for changing the belts on, much more room on them. 2.5-3 hours and you can have the belt changed on them

[Davstylee]

Hey Colin

Great to see a trained VW tech on here, fingers crossed for some sound advice.

I hope no one minds me slightly stealing the thread here, but I just want to get some advice.

I brought my GTI from a main dealer at the end of November. It is a 05 reg and has done 51k miles. I had the DSG oil and filter change done by a different dealer closer to home, once I found out it hadn’t been done. The dealer I brought it from said it had, so I made them reimburse me for the oil and filter change, wont let them mug me off like that ha ha!

Anyway I have 2 questions.

First is, would or should the VW dealer I brought it from have performed a service before I brought the car? I think they are meant to perform a check but I don’t know if they actually give two hoots and just tick the boxes to say they have. I only say that because I just had to get my MOT done and the rear tyres needed replacing. I have not done many miles on them to be honest, and I thought the tyres would have been one of the things the dealer should check.

Second is, I mainly use the GTI for travelling to the train station and back, and then to the girlfriends house. It is mainly town driving and I probably do about 12 or so miles a day, so what sort of service plan should I be looking at? (I have just changed the pollen filter myself to try and cure an air con smell problem I was having, and I have a piper cross panel air filter fitted that came with the carbon fibre air intake I brought. I also only feed it with Shell V power juice.)

Any info would be awesome thanks.

[Colinv]

Hi mate first of all, I'd more than likely every used car should be at least checked prior to leaving the premises to a new customer. Brakes, gyres wiper blades etc all come under the basics that should be checked so I'd maybe have looked into that further if it failed it's mot on gyres if you had not long bought the car.

Secondly, approx 12-15 miles a day is approx 400-500 miles per month which works out roughly anything upto 6000 a year. I'd recommend time and distance servicing for you. Service it once a year or 10,000miles whichever comes first