I have not been as good as I could have been at keeping it serviced the last 4 years but never gone over a year. Just forgot that it should have been more frequent now I'm asking her to do 20k a year.
Got a split on the oil fill pipe that I hope to replace in the next few weeks and just broke the tip off a second dipstick.
Car has always sounded like a tractor in the mornings but thinking of changing all 3 plugs as well soon.
Not sure if gearbox oil should be changed at this age but no obvious issues,clunking, difficulty etc with it or the clutch?
Hi, well done on the miles to date, I bought a A2 TDI 18 months ago that had had two previous owners, the first one put 95K miles on it in the first 2 years then the guy I bought it off took it to 272,200 miles at which point the clutch gave up
In his ownership he serviced it, changed the timing belt every 80K miles or 5 years (it was ALWAYS on the 5 years), changed the front disks and pads (pads more than once), a starter motor at 246K Miles and numerous sets of tyres. The battery was also changed at 12 years old, but he gave me the old one and it still works perfectly, I suspect it was the common earth problem and not the battery at all.
when the timing belt was changed he always changed the water pump, belt and tensioners
fuel filter, air filter, oil filter, oil all at recommended intervals
Car is currently on 288,600 miles and sorn'ed because I bought a TDI project that I then fell in love with
There is a little paint work to sort out over the winter then it will be offered for sale on this excellent forum
I am somewhat torn as I would have loved to have taken her to the 300K miles.
I changed the clutch for another LUK clutch, the spinner plate on the new clutch as 1.6mm of material to the rivets, the old spinner still had 0.6mm left, so at least another 100K miles had the release bearing not failed
I changed the oil in the gearbox and the stuff that came out was not good, but since the oil change the gear change is improved. insistently it still returns 65mpg on a motorway run and I got 72mpg when I went to A2steves (420 mile run on mainly A roads, and I was not hanging about)
I can supply a pair of replacement dip stick end that you super glue onto the wire having first removed the old plastic ends remains
I have had one on my TDI for 18 months and no issues to date
Drop me a PM if you want a pair
Cheers,
Paul
PS I also do other 3D printed parts (Google A2Oc 3D printed) and re manufactured door check straps
anything to keep these excellent little aluminium cans on the road