VW Golf Mk 5 coming up to 40,000 miles

joeyvicks

my Golf 2.0TDi is coming up to 40,000 miles (next couple of days). I seem to recall it needing a few things doing/checking at this mileage... am i right?

Rossy.

joeyvicks wrote: »

my Golf 2.0TDi is coming up to 40,000 miles (next couple of days). I seem to recall it needing a few things doing/checking at this mileage... am i right?

What does your service book say?

joeyvicks

good point haven't looked

Hintza

If it was me I would do the cambelt if it hasn't been done. (Ours failed at 33,000 miles whilst still in warranty...whew!)

alo6

With your 40 thousand they should visually check the Cambelt so getting your Cambelt done 20k miles earlier than recommended is daft in my opinion. Especially if your paying for your service aswell.

i paid VW £270 for my Cambelt (i also have golf 2.0TDI) replacement last month if your looking for prices.

Inactive

Surely service periods are both mileage and age related, ie, every 12/18/24 months?

daveyjp

Indeed - how old is the car? Brake fluid, coolant and cambelts are also time rather than mileage based.

It was at this mileage that a colleague's Golf V started needed suspension parts renewing so it'd worth getting these areas checked out.

Hintza

alo6 wrote: »

With your 40 thousand they should visually check the Cambelt so getting your Cambelt done 20k miles earlier than recommended is daft in my opinion.

That of course is your perogative but if the caris out of warranty and it goes the OP is going to look silly.

Mostly it is not the belt that goes anyway but the pulley wheels.

Do you not know that cambelts are the spawn of the devil in modern cars?

bigjl

When I had a Toledo tdi back in '99, they changed the cambelt interval to 40k, this was on the older 1.9tdi engine, but why take the risk and leave it longer.

A lot of these extended intervals are to appease fleet managers, who incidently get rid of the cars when the warranty runs out.

Don't know the specific interval for the 2.0, but the interval for the 1.9 used to be 60k on VW's of the time, but I believe it Seat felt the interval was too long, not sure if Skoda made the same decision.

But honestly 40k is enough for what is effectively a consumable part. And do the water pump and tensioner aswell. Plenty of good VAG specialists out there.

joeyvicks

it'll be 3 years old mid december. I asked at the garage the other day about the cambelt and they said it was 90,000 miles/4yrs so thats covered. I bought it with 26,500 on the clock at the end of this June...
Had 2 free services with it so had the 10k one last month and now it'll need to go in next week for 40,000 miles things doing to it yeah?

bigjl

Most maintenance will be either annual or at a set mileage, if it is on a 10k interval then they should have done everything needed for the next 10k.

If you do high miles or low miles then you would have to do some things on a year by year basis.

I would do the cambelt at 4 years, as the main issue with cambelts is when the car does low miles and the belt ages.

Minor discrepencies always surface when the usage of a car changes, the previous owner might have done low miles and so they had it serviced annually at say 6k, so when you do more miles a year you get it serviced after from the last service, but it has only done 16k, not 20k.

Also some garages service the car at point os ale putting the schedule out of sync.

My advice was more relevant to a car having done low miles, a high mileage car will have less problems with components aging.

Your car will only need servicing after another 10k, and for convenience you may want to get the cambelt done a few months early ro prevent to visits to the garage.

The service schedule is a combination of miles from last service and a maximum time from last service to stop cars that do low miles being untouched for two or three years and to stop high mileage cars being unserviced for too many miles.

Oil breaks down and gets contaminated, filters get clogged.

If you had it serviced last month then it doens't need doing, a decent garage will put in your service book when the next service is due.

If it had 38k on it then it is due at 48k.