Audi long life service

LOTTOWINNER

Just brought a 04 Audi A4 diesel from England, and all the services in the log are Audi long life services, each interval is approx. 18k miles.
Should I continue this type of servicing or should I use conventional servicing, as I won't be doing as high a mileage as the previous owner. As far as I know the engine management monitors the engine and determines when the next service is due, will I have to get this reset if I decide on conventional servicing?

trant

A dealer can change the car to use fixed schedule servicing instead of Long Life servicing if you wish. An independent garage with the right equipment should be able to do this also.

Which servicing you choose is up to you, but your low mileage would make me more inclined to go with fixed scedule servicing to avoid too long a gap between services.

crosstownk

As trant says, the choice is yours. The dealer (or whatever garage you use) can set either interval.

You will have to top up with oil between services, but if you stick to the long life servicing be sure to top up with oil that is suitable for long life intervals.

I've had plenty of cars with over 100k miles on them that only had long life service. They were all high mileage cars though. The maximum time interval for long life servicing is 2 years.

LOTTOWINNER

Cheers for the help!

OKenora

Or you could just service it at fixed mileages or time intervals making the decision yourself and not worry about what the onboard computer says, as long as you aren't exceeding it's recommendations.

yellow012

The long life service interval is 30k or 1 year. If your not doing more than 15k a year then it would be cheaper to go with the fixed service interval otherwise stick with the LL service schedule.

crosstownk

yellow012 wrote:

The long life service interval is 30k or 1 year. If your not doing more than 15k a year then it would be cheaper to go with the fixed service interval otherwise stick with the LL service schedule.

It's actually 2 years. An A4 in the garage here is displaying 654 days to next service. Either way it doesn't really matter as you just need to wait for the display to tell you that a service is due. It's not really long life service, even though VAG call it so. It's more of a variable service. Depending on driving conditions, service intervals can vary between models. I've seen some VAG cars display that a service is due as early as 15/16,000kms and others that have gone in excess of 45,000kms.

LOTTOWINNER

Thanks again guys! By the way Crosstownk! this A4 hasn't got a sunroof!!

crosstownk

LOTTOWINNER wrote:

Thanks again guys! By the way Crosstownk! this A4 hasn't got a sunroof!!

Thats one problem you won't have this time - once bitten, twice shy and all that...........................

yop

U can reset the service clock on the computer in the A4. Mine sets in intervals of 10k miles. I set it myself after the service

LOTTOWINNER

Does resetting require specialised equipment or can "anybody" do it?

yop

Anybody can, check ur handbook, it tells u how

Mr.Diagnostic

To the best of my knowledge the manual service reset procedure does not wotk if the instrument cluster has been programmed to long life. If it is re-programmed to the short interval then it can reset manually.

As an aside, I feel these benefit from shorter intervals as they get older.