Audi 'Long Life' service & service indicator

[davej311]

So how does this work, i.e. I understand the long life service gives a service interval that is not a fixed amount of miles, but mine's gone off after 20,000 miles. Isn't this the 'normal' service interval? Is there a different kind of reset for long life, or is this to indicate something other than a full service needs doing?

[davej311]

All good interesting stuff, thanks. I do mainly long distance driving so my 19/20k is about right, however I've just had it (long life) serviced & checked the miles to go & it says 8500. How's that then? Does it take some time to give a more accurate reading or has something gone wrong, crap oil maybe? Or has the leading '1' digit failed?

[davej311]

XDA said:

Sounds as if the garage hasn't put the car back on the longlife service schedule when they reset service indicator?

Yes it does, & I've just realised that the indicator had gone off after 9/10k not 19/20k as I said previoulsy, so they obviously did the same before. I have an ELM327 OBD device, can I set it to long life myself?

[davej311]

Be assured I'll be ringing the garage up in the morning, yes it was an indy & it's a 2004 model 2.0 tdi. I guess if he can't reset it properly then I can pay for someone else to do it. Deep joy.

So assuming I manage to get it properly reset at some point, does it matter that I'm likely to have done 2 or 3k miles by that point? Does the 'quality sensor' look for absolute values, or a change since reset?

[davej311]

Tame Technician said:

Change since last reset

or it wouldnt need reseting, it would know the oil was new.

The fact that you done 3k already means you will get a londer run to the next service light, could have it done bit early to be safe.

Ok fair enough, daft question maybe. I'm going to get it reset ASAP, 2/3k was a worst case scenario if I don't manage to get it done for a while, I do 200 miles a day & have probably done 850 since the service so should be ok hopefully, will be on the case tomorrow.