2002 A4 1.8T Quattro - APR Chip

The Service light has come on based on the time elapsed since my 30k service (almost one year). The issue is, my car is primarily garaged these days, and I'm only at 35k.

I'm assuming that I can follow the steps in the manual to reset the service notification, and that I can just wait until I get to approx. 40k for my service visit.

Since it's been almost a year since my last oil/filter change, would it make sense to change these on my own?

 

Check with the dealer.

 

Um yeah, you should get your oil changed.

 

I was planning on it, but, was told that I can follow the service schedule. 10k miles between oil changes always worried me, but, I bought the car at 29k, and was told to follow the dealer schedule.

I have synthetic oil in it, does this last longer?

 

Yeah it claims it will last up longer. I really don't buy into the whole 10k miles deal. 5k max.

 

Thanks for reinforcing my feelings. I'm going to bring it in for a change ASAP. Especially with the fact that it's Chipped, it can't hurt to change the oil every 5k.

 

I put 5K on my car every 6 weeks!

 

god dont wait until 10000 miles when i got my car the guy didnt change his oil until i changed it at 20000 it was god awful black, i mean thick black and i decided to go on the safe side and just flush the oil for the hell of it, i dont think i had to flush it but i just felt like it

 

I'm a 3-4k man myself..and its getting about that time again. Not sure what I'm gonna use though, last time I went with dealer synth but I'm not letting those ***** touch my baby again. Dealer in Eau Claire is hurrendous.

-T

 

u think they are bad ok for SoCal people heres a warning dont go to Rusnak of Pasadena the manager was a moron he didnt kno anything he didnt even kno where anything was and the mechanics scratched my rear bumper when i got it back i didnt notice until i got home and they just denided it