My Service Indicator's Lying!
Posted: Sat Jun 28, 2008 5:45 pm
I'm trying to be a good boy, really I am 
The service interval for my petrol pug is 20000 miles or 2 years, whichever comes first, but I like to do an oil & filter change and give her a good check over in between at 10k or 1 year. The service indicator (miles 'til next service that come up on the odo when you turn the ignition on) currently says 10100, so I was getting psyched to do an interim service in the next week or 2. Then I though about it and realised that it can't be due yet...... so I dug out the records
I last serviced the car on 13th October '07 at 41728 miles, so that's only 8.5 months ago. Since then it's done a mere 7266 miles So why is the bloody thing indicating that it's done 9.9k or been a year 
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The next full service will be the timing belt one, so that'll be quite expensive, I'd rather that be done on schedule, not earlier than necessary. But if the service indicator keeps lying like this it'll be "due" 5.5K early .
Traditionally I've always done quite low miles (6-8K pa), so was servicing based on time, this is only happening since I've changed jobs and upped my mileage, so I'm now meeting the mileage criteria before the time criteria (only just though
)
Is this the faschist french BAStuds programming their cars to empty our wallets again, or is there a legitimate reason for it?
The service interval for my petrol pug is 20000 miles or 2 years, whichever comes first, but I like to do an oil & filter change and give her a good check over in between at 10k or 1 year. The service indicator (miles 'til next service that come up on the odo when you turn the ignition on) currently says 10100, so I was getting psyched to do an interim service in the next week or 2. Then I though about it and realised that it can't be due yet...... so I dug out the records
I last serviced the car on 13th October '07 at 41728 miles, so that's only 8.5 months ago. Since then it's done a mere 7266 miles
So why is the bloody thing indicating that it's done 9.9k or been a year . The next full service will be the timing belt one, so that'll be quite expensive, I'd rather that be done on schedule, not earlier than necessary. But if the service indicator keeps lying like this it'll be "due" 5.5K early
.Traditionally I've always done quite low miles (6-8K pa), so was servicing based on time, this is only happening since I've changed jobs and upped my mileage, so I'm now meeting the mileage criteria before the time criteria (only just though
) Is this the faschist french BAStuds programming their cars to empty our wallets again, or is there a legitimate reason for it?
