I'm interested to know from people who are using the variable service interval. When buying the car from new is it really the case that the first time the oil is changed could be as high as 30k miles? What ever happened to the 1st service cars used to have at about 3k miles? This I always believed was a good idea, to flush out any swarf that occurs in normal bedding-in. I know manufacturing tolerances have improved over the years, but are Audi really saying there is no bedding-in what so ever? Has anyone chosen to ignore the Audi recommendations and done an oil change themselves at 3k miles?