S4 Long Life Service.

[Hydracam]

Morning all.

I need to pick your brains on B7 S4 sevice intervals. The prevoius oil service is shown in the book as 66,600 miles, the current milage is 79,800 and the comupter is telling me that I have 5,900 mile to go before it needs it's next oil service. My concern is that it adds up to aprox 19,000 mile between these services (gulp). I have read some threads on here that say the S4 should really be put onto yearly oil changes as it's a performance V8 and to also stop the timing chain for rattling.
I'm concerned that I'm driving it like a girl and my car is mocking me.....

Any advice ...?


Paul

[magpies]

move the pink fluffy dice out of the way so you can see the road and get a move on

I tried to drive like a girly in my audi to see how big a mileage I could get on the long life and the computer ended up at a 9000 interval - so I gave up and went to annual (or earlier as the oil is not expensive) my car is now over 140k and still going strong.

[Cupramax]

Hydracam said:

Morning all.

I need to pick your brains on B7 S4 sevice intervals. The prevoius oil service is shown in the book as 66,600 miles, the current milage is 79,800 and the comupter is telling me that I have 5,900 mile to go before it needs it's next oil service. My concern is that it adds up to aprox 19,000 mile between these services (gulp). I have read some threads on here that say the S4 should really be put onto yearly oil changes as it's a performance V8 and to also stop the timing chain for rattling.
I'm concerned that I'm driving it like a girl and my car is mocking me.....

Any advice ...?


Paul

19,000 is normal if your doing long runs.

[cuprabob]

I get 19K between services on my R32 but I mainly do long runs and motorway miles.

[Hydracam]

Cheers for the replies. Heres a little more info, the previous services (assuming they where done at the correct milage) where 15,300, 16,860, 15290, 19,405 and 15050. I've just worked all these out and it does appear that the car has done this milage before. I only really do the daily commute of about 10 miles which is a mixture of trafic all the way in the morning and traffic up until the compulsary blast on well known roads... oh and it's an auto.

I would also add that disrespecting the dice isn't helping.....



Paul

[Witchfinder]

The consensus from rs246.com seems to be that annual servicing is much better for your S4 than variable servicing. Treat your V8 right, don't scrimp on it

[TonyHetherington]

I do similar commute to you - and as such only do 9k a year.

When I got my car I spoke to 4rings (who look after it for me - ex Audi) and asked if they thought I should go on to yearly servicing. He said nope, no need for it at all, the computer works out what it needs and so that is more than enough to go by.

[marctwo]

Mine has just had it's service, almost a year to the day is was last done. In that time I've only put around 5000 miles on it. I am not sure how it works out when the next service is due but I was going to service it annually anyway (as I used to do with my S3).

I also use 4Rings who have been excellent as usual, thanks Dean!

[Witchfinder]

TonyHetherington said:

When I got my car I spoke to 4rings (who look after it for me - ex Audi) and asked if they thought I should go on to yearly servicing. He said nope, no need for it at all, the computer works out what it needs and so that is more than enough to go by.

This thread on rs246.com seems to suggest that annual servicing helps to mitigate the tensioner rattle: http://www.rs246.com/index.php?name=PNphpBB2&f...

[TonyHetherington]

Interesting, I'll have a read - thanks!