Service due display --- miles --- days

[the-odd]

Had my Exeo ST serviced ahead of a trip to Spain and I have got it back with the next serive due showing --- Miles and --- Days. The dealer says it will reset after a few days/miles, both a few days have passed and I driven 150+ miles with no change. Anyone else had this? I saw that one member had it after he requested this car changed to 10k service interval, I only had the car serviced.

 

[julianat57]

Hi, yes I had this come up after my recent first service, I believe it says this somewhere in the user manual and should have a proper readout after 500 miles, mine did this, although it has come up with longlife service time and miles and according to my dealer mine is 12 monthly service....Julian

 

[stuarttunstall]

Hi, yes I had this come up after my recent first service, I believe it says this somewhere in the user manual and should have a proper readout after 500 miles, mine did this, although it has come up with longlife service time and miles and according to my dealer mine is 12 monthly service....Julian

When I collected my Exeo in November 2010 the dealer told me that no Exeo was on long life, they are all 10000 mile service.... funny, I said..... mine is long life

So...I think some are and some not.... like VW/Audi, depends how the factory set them up

 

[andyj]

the very early (pre Wk20 2009) Exeo's like mine are only on 10k scheduled servicing, as they weren't fitted with the oil condition sensor.

Anything built after, has the option of being set to either long-life or 10k scheduled at the PDI. After that, I'm pretty sure it's fixed.

 

[dalepearson]

my Exeo ST

Off topic but I think your car looks great in your Avtar.
Have you got a bigger pic and is it Track Grey?

Thanks in advance.

 

[OLDOILER]

the very early (pre Wk20 2009) Exeo's like mine are only on 10k scheduled servicing, as they weren't fitted with the oil condition sensor.

Tell us more please and would it be ref. in the build pack??

 

[andyj]

The only information I know, is what I managed to gleen from the Sales guy (canonman on here) at my local dealer, after I had bought the car, having originally been told it was long-life servicing.

After about 9months (9,000 miles) the service indicator popped up, so I queried it with the dealer, and the end result was that my car was one of the very early ones and had not been fitted with the oil condition sensor, and could therefore not be put on variable servicing.

However, I'm overly bothered, as I actually prefer the oil being changed more frequently then the expected 18,000miles on the variable service schedule. I use the same long-life oil anyway.

 

[stuarttunstall]

However, I'm overly bothered, as I actually prefer the oil being changed more frequently then the expected 18,000miles on the variable service schedule. I use the same long-life oil anyway.

I agree.... I do not agree with long service intervals.... in my opinion 18-20K between oil changes is way too much, so I intend to have mine changed at 10K....

I appreciate that oils have come a long way since the days of my 1982 Cortina and it's 6K intervals.... but I believe that for what it costs... get it changed....

 

[Stupra]

Service due indicator resets anywhere 500 - 1000 miles after a srevice reset. Thought mine was broke when I got it back from dealer, but it does take time to sort itself out

 

[MisterW]

in my opinion 18-20K between oil changes is way too much

It depends on the type of motoring you do I guess. I had a 1.9PD A4 before the Exeo, it was always on long-life and did 140k miles no problem. I do about 18k/year and so long life is ideal for me, it means 1 service/year.

 

[andyj]

I'm doing 18k/year, and would still prefer a 10k oil change than an annual one.

Even if I was on a long-life servicing plan, I would still probably do interim services myself, on top of those that go in the log-book.