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

[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