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Anyone been through their fourth year service on a TDI?

Hello RisingRoc

It may be better if you changed the heading to 4th Year Service.... this post is now quite old.

Good luck and hope service goes well - enjoy the new cambelt !


Jeff

Hi all

My 'Service Now!' light is now on and starting to annoy me so I suppose I better give in and get it serviced..

It will be the 4th year service, the car is a TDI 140 and apparently the maintenance book in the car is now wrong, and the cambelt/water pump needs replacing at 4 years or 140,000 miles (instead of 140,000 miles and no time limit)

My car has done 70,000 miles, shall I just get the belt checked over or should I get it replaced?

What else should I ask for to be done, if it hasn't been done already?

Any help will be appreciated!

Cheers,

Scott

I understand the 4 year time limit is something that VW UK stipulate and not the factory.

I would get it changed along with the tensioner and water pump.

Cuprabob wrote:I understand the 4 year time limit is something that VW UK stipulate and not the factory.

I would get it changed along with the tensioner and water pump.

Plus AC plus MOT plus I need a new front tyre plus anything else they find...this is sounding expensive!

You could always skip the A/C, if it's working fine. I'm not convinced they actually do anything when they service it.

Yeah think I will. Fingers crossed the tyre scrapes through as well! Just annoying playing £400 for a cambelt which is 100,000mile shy of its limit. But I know the risks if I don't!

What makes it worse, Audi says 5 years for the exact same engine.

Cuprabob wrote:What makes it worse, Audi says 5 years for the exact same engine.

And VW (outside of the UK) don't have a time limit.

Scottydog wrote:Hi all

My 'Service Now!' light is now on and starting to annoy me so I suppose I better give in and get it serviced..

It will be the 4th year service, the car is a TDI 140 and apparently the maintenance book in the car is now wrong, and the cambelt/water pump needs replacing at 4 years or 140,000 miles (instead of 140,000 miles and no time limit)

My car has done 70,000 miles, shall I just get the belt checked over or should I get it replaced?

What else should I ask for to be done, if it hasn't been done already?

Any help will be appreciated!

Cheers,

Scott

Hi Scott

You put yours in for its service yet? What did you get done?

I'll be calling in the next few days to get mine booked in for next Thursday (28th). Going to ask for a run down from the garage on what they recommend being done without me prompting anything. Will be interesting as a VW approved garage to see if they match up to everything I've read. I'll keep you posted on what the garage says to me.

Edit - just off the phone with the garage. The guy at the other end of the line was quoting every 4 years for the belt or 60-80,000miles. He said he'd put a note on for them to have a look at it, but I know for them to do that they are doing most of the work to replace it so might as well just get it done. Didn't mention anything else major needing done to the car other than the usual filters/oil etc.

RisingRoc wrote:

Scottydog wrote:Hi all

My 'Service Now!' light is now on and starting to annoy me so I suppose I better give in and get it serviced..

It will be the 4th year service, the car is a TDI 140 and apparently the maintenance book in the car is now wrong, and the cambelt/water pump needs replacing at 4 years or 140,000 miles (instead of 140,000 miles and no time limit)

My car has done 70,000 miles, shall I just get the belt checked over or should I get it replaced?

What else should I ask for to be done, if it hasn't been done already?

Any help will be appreciated!

Cheers,

Scott

Hi Scott

You put yours in for its service yet? What did you get done?

I'll be calling in the next few days to get mine booked in for next Thursday (28th). Going to ask for a run down from the garage on what they recommend being done without me prompting anything. Will be interesting as a VW approved garage to see if they match up to everything I've read. I'll keep you posted on what the garage says to me.

Edit - just off the phone with the garage. The guy at the other end of the line was quoting every 4 years for the belt or 60-80,000miles. He said he'd put a note on for them to have a look at it, but I know for them to do that they are doing most of the work to replace it so might as well just get it done. Didn't mention anything else major needing done to the car other than the usual filters/oil etc.

Hey

Not yet, i've booked it in for the 4th March (the exact day it becomes 4 years old) at VWAudiTec near my home in Chelmsford..

It's still under warranty with the dealer I bought it from so any faulty parts they might find will hopefully be covered by that

I spoke to the guy on the phone about the cambelt and he said it should be ok for a while longer as the belts are strong, but I should get it done ASAP to be on the safe side, i'll probably leave until later in the year.. they are quoting me £350 for cam belt/waterpump and tensioners. I should have noticed it needed doing when I bought the car in November and got them to do it before I signed the papers!

Scott