GOLF R Service required & Coolant low message

[BlackGT3]

The 'service required' message has just showed its self. My car has covered 8500 miles and is a year old so I am assuming the Tech set the car to annual servicing during PDI. I would appreciate some feedback regarding Dealer service costs?

Further, has anybody experienced their Gold R losing coolant?

Many Thanks

[hornetrider]

BlackGT3 said:

Further, has anybody experienced their Golf R losing coolant?

Interesting. I have a 4 month old Alltrack with 8k miles, which the last couple of days has been pinging a low coolant warning when I start it up. In fact I just posted about it on the Alltrack thread. I do start early and the temperature is dropping.. I'm wondering if it could have been filled on the low side from the factory.

[SuperchargedVR6]

If you're not actually losing coolant from the expansion tank, it's probably just a faulty level sensor.

[BlackGT3]

hornetrider said:

BlackGT3 said:

Further, has anybody experienced their Golf R losing coolant?

Interesting. I have a 4 month old Alltrack with 8k miles, which the last couple of days has been pinging a low coolant warning when I start it up. In fact I just posted about it on the Alltrack thread. I do start early and the temperature is dropping.. I'm wondering if it could have been filled on the low side from the factory.

UPDATE - I phoned the dealer again and spoke to the service front desk, Manager. He said this was normal and just top it up with Tap Water! If the problem persists, book it in.

With regard to the Service Required message, he did confirm that this should be set to Long Life service intervals which are generally good for approx 19,000 miles/2 years. They have agreed to reset this.

Edited by BlackGT3 on Wednesday 19th October 11:16

Edited by BlackGT3 on Wednesday 19th October 16:49

[hornetrider]

Tap water?! Right, I'll do that. fk it, it's not mine.

[AGK]

To reset the counter press and hold the big zero on the clocks then turn the ignition on then press it again and it'll come up service reset for oil change.

I had to do it on mine after it wanted a service at 7k.

[hornetrider]

As posted on the Alltrack thread....

Before:



After two cups of water:

[anonymous-user]

BlackGT3 said:

hornetrider said:

BlackGT3 said:

Further, has anybody experienced their Golf R losing coolant?

Interesting. I have a 4 month old Alltrack with 8k miles, which the last couple of days has been pinging a low coolant warning when I start it up. In fact I just posted about it on the Alltrack thread. I do start early and the temperature is dropping.. I'm wondering if it could have been filled on the low side from the factory.

UPDATE - I phoned the dealer again and spoke to the service front desk, Manager. He said this was normal and just top it up with Tap Water! If the problem persists, book it in.

With regard to the Service Required message, he confirm that these should be set to Long Life service intervals which are generally good for approx 19,000 miles/2 years. They have agreed to reset this.

Edited by anonymous-user on Wednesday 19th October 11:16

I leased a brand new vw caddy van back in 2015 for 6 months, the van does this 3 months in and i was offered the same advice....strange

[DanSkoda]

There was a technicial notice from Skoda, but not at Audi surprisingly, about coolant loss before the 1st service interval. It's apparently due to the "complex cooling system" layout creates air pockets at manufacture that then work their way out over time, causing the level to drop. Once topped up it shouldn't happen again.
The old advice was to fill the bottle completely at PDI to reduce the likelihood of it happening. Essentially, there's one tank for a system that splits off into 3 different subsections, with their own pumps that can be controlled individual. Can be a bit of a pig to bleed up after a repair with a long winded computer aided test plan to go with it.

Yay for technology!

[ashleyman]

Yep, having coolant issues. I was driving along a few weeks back, car went into limp mode and I had coolant low error message. Checked the levels and it was like the photo from the AllTrack guy.

Drove to the dealer to get them to check it, turned car off, fault cleared itself so they couldn't do anything. They confirmed levels were low - below minimum. Then when I bought coolant to top up the tech came out to do it for me and the level was back to normal.

Lost a bit more over the last few weeks and topped it up again on Monday just gone, along with the oil which was scarily low - again sensor warning, did the check, EMPTY, no warning at all.

I've now added a calendar reminder so every week on a Sunday afternoon I'm reminded to check levels. For those of topping up with tap water, I wouldn't. Book and internet says distilled water only.

Edited by ashleyman on Wednesday 19th October 23:56