sween Posted April 10, 2007 Report Share Posted April 10, 2007 My A4 1.8T s line has done 24k and just had its 3rd AVS service. The puter has had a little think over the last 300 miles or so and it now tells me that the next is due in 360 days or 8900 miles. I am far from happy as i drive pretty sympathetically and the car gets a good run of 25 miles to work, half on motorway (60mp ish) and half on A road with only a couple of stops for traffic lights. I was expecting double the estimated mileage. I asked my dealer to check the settings were correct but I don't trust them to have done so. Does anyone have any previous experience of this crap mileage so I can go forearmed to the dealer to kick off?? Kev S Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andyccr Posted April 10, 2007 Report Share Posted April 10, 2007 Third service ???? These AVS cars should go approx 17k between services without any problems. My Octavia 1.8T vRS certainly did with no problems and the service history from my new 1.8T cabriolet is the same ! The last service was done at 55k and its not due until 70k according to the 'spanner' button ! If its only 8900 it sounds like its set on fixed service intervals of 10k ???? I think you can tell from the sticker in the boot what the original service schedule is set on (I think the user handbook even explains what the service 'letters' on the boot floor mean) Hope this helps Andy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sween Posted April 10, 2007 Author Report Share Posted April 10, 2007 i thought it was going to be something like this but any electronic settings I'm relying on the dealer to check they're correct and if they aren't, are they really likely to blow out another dealer... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AH101 Posted April 11, 2007 Report Share Posted April 11, 2007 My car is now about 1 month old (3.0TDi Quattro) and has been set to variable servicing.....next service is due in 17,600 mile or 700+ days time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UBM Posted April 11, 2007 Report Share Posted April 11, 2007 Sounds like you are on fixed interval not AVS! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chriswhgrant Posted April 11, 2007 Report Share Posted April 11, 2007 If its any help I had the same problem with my A6 last year, came up showing approx 9K miles until the next service after 1st AVS. Phoned the dealer and he told me that it will correct itself over time (which it did) eventually got the service done after 14K miles and this was mostly town driving. I'm now doing more motorway miles and just had it serviced so it'll be interesting to see what comes up on display. Hopefully yours will fall into the same bracket. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chav Posted April 11, 2007 Report Share Posted April 11, 2007 sounds like dealer bull to me sween. I thrashed my previous cab and service interval were every 17-19K miles regardless. My 2nd AVS service invoice for my previous cab is on this site somewhere. Think that was at 36K miles! ps. Do you really drive at 60mph on the motorway? I'd have thought service intervals would be every 100,000 miles if you did that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sween Posted April 11, 2007 Author Report Share Posted April 11, 2007 this is the second avs i've had done, same type of driving ie good steady runs to and from work, only the odd occassional spirited drive, and that only did 10k between service intervals so i do't fancy it will adjust to something acceptable Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sween Posted April 11, 2007 Author Report Share Posted April 11, 2007 chav, the bits i do on the motorway are over thelwall and m56 at rush hour so pointless trying to even think of going faster than that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chav Posted April 11, 2007 Report Share Posted April 11, 2007 Forgot to add - It sounds like your car is set for the 10K service, not AVS - get them to check! and if it's not, I'd try and get a reimbursement for the unnecessary servicing you've paid for!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chav Posted April 11, 2007 Report Share Posted April 11, 2007 [ QUOTE ] chav, the bits i do on the motorway are over thelwall and m56 at rush hour so pointless trying to even think of going faster than that. [/ QUOTE ] M56 at rush hour is still 70+ in the fast lane! At least towards manchester it is anyway. Every hour is a sodding rush hour for me typically though! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Booster Posted April 12, 2007 Report Share Posted April 12, 2007 If you had the 2.0T I could understand this. My car needed servicing after 9k miles on the variable service schedule. I had it switched to fixed 10k intervals after that. However, my old 1.8TQ used to get to 18.5k miles before it needed servicing. Nothing about my driving syle or regular journeys has changed at all. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CabGirl Posted April 12, 2007 Report Share Posted April 12, 2007 I had my first AVS at 7,500 - I've just had my second AVS and I managed to squeeze 19,800 from this one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Motormouth Posted April 12, 2007 Report Share Posted April 12, 2007 I had been on AVS and got 14k miles out of this time, at last service I asked to still stay on AVS. The service was two months ago and I have driven 700 miles since the service and its now telling me 6100 to next service and I drive normally !!! I defo recon Ive been put on fixed servicing as the rate the miles are dropping on the next service indicator work out Im due a service 12 months on from last one. However I did notice on the service book for the previous owner it seemed the same, first AVS lots of miles, second AVS not alot miles, then me 3rd AVS lots of miles, 4th AVS not alot of miles. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sween Posted April 12, 2007 Author Report Share Posted April 12, 2007 just been to audi stoke today and they have set it to AVS, ie it wasn't on it before, puter now says 17700 to next service. I detect a snotty letter to the other audi dealer that was happy to take my money and not check the settings as i asked!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PetrolDave Posted April 12, 2007 Report Share Posted April 12, 2007 The clue as to whether you are on AVS or not is to look at the number of days shown to next service. AVS is 2 years (fixed) or max 20,000 (variable) miles whichever is reached first. Fixed interval is 1 year (fixed) or 10,000 (fixed) miles whichever is reached first. So if you had an "AVS" service a month ago and the number of days to next service is 335 (365-30) then you DIDN'T get an AVS service, the number of days should be 700 (2*365-30). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Avus_Bub Posted April 12, 2007 Report Share Posted April 12, 2007 [ QUOTE ] just been to audi stoke today and they have set it to AVS, ie it wasn't on it before, puter now says 17700 to next service. I detect a snotty letter to the other audi dealer that was happy to take my money and not check the settings as i asked!! [/ QUOTE ] Sounds about right. When I had my AVS 1 done last November the indicator strangely (after a few days) stated service in 8500 miles or 340 odd days....... I queried this upon my return to the dealer a couple of weeks later when I had the A/C compressor renewed. No prizes for the answer I received. [ QUOTE ] The clue as to whether you are on AVS or not is to look at the number of days shown to next service. AVS is 2 years (fixed) or max 20,000 (variable) miles whichever is reached first. Fixed interval is 1 year (fixed) or 10,000 (fixed) miles whichever is reached first. So if you had an "AVS" service a month ago and the number of days to next service is 335 (365-30) then you DIDN'T get an AVS service, the number of days should be 700 (2*365-30). [/ QUOTE ] Thanks for the post dave That's just what I thought anyway. TBH I'm not bothered I'll just reset it myself in November when I drop the oil (I'm too old skool to have the same oil in my car for 2 years ) The dealer might see it again in Nov' 2008.......... BUB Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spikeyboy Posted April 12, 2007 Report Share Posted April 12, 2007 Dave - are you saying it should be a minimum of 2 years between AVS services ? Just curious as im supposed to be on AVS - car was last serviced september 2006 with 34,495 miles have done around 5,000 miles since then and indicator is stating something like 260 days or 9,000 miles to next service which is less than 2 years on the days front. Tend to find that it drops quite quickly and the next service will probs be due around novermber 2007. Not do alot of miles and its maily short runs - nursery, shopping etc - so this could be the reason it drops faster i guess. If that is the cass and im only going to get around 14 months between services would it be worth me switching to annual ? is annual cheaper ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PetrolDave Posted April 13, 2007 Report Share Posted April 13, 2007 [ QUOTE ] Dave - are you saying it should be a minimum of 2 years between AVS services ? [/ QUOTE ] Definitely not! An AVS service is required when whichever of these happens FIRST: 1) 2 years after the previous service - so the "days to next service" should count down from 730. 2) 20,000 miles adjusted according to driving "style". What this means in reality is that if you drive your car once a week on a motorway like a granny, then you might reach the 730 days before the "miles to next service" drops to zero. For all of the rest of us the "miles to next service" will drop to zero before the "days to next service" does. What I was saying is that when you collect your car after an AVS service you should press the service button. What you should see on the DIS is: miles to next service = --- (because you haven't driven enough for the driving style to be worked out, that takes maybe 500 miles or so). days to next service = 730 After a fixed interval service you should see on the DIS: miles to next service = 10,000 days to next service = 365 If you see any "hybrid" of those, then it's likely that the dealer technician has not correctly coded the instruments. The sequence for an AVS service is weird and has to be followed exactly. BTW VAG-COM 704 has a great new feature which does all the coding for fixed and AVS services automatically. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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