my vrs is on varible servicing, and the other day was having a look at the oil levels ( which were ok ) but i noticed that it loooked a bit black :thumbdwn: . It has now done 31k and has only had one service in its 3yr lifetime,which was at 14k. I was wondering if i could drain out the oil and change it and the filter,. Just wanted to now if i could do this without affecting the ecu on its varable servicing setup.... or should i just leave it until the service light comes on?

cheers for the help pete.

Assuming that you are using the correct spec Longlife oil, I would be inclined to wait until the next service before having the oil changed. The oil quality is being monitored by sensors and, if you put clean oil in, it might just confuse ongoing calculations about when the next service is due.

If you change the oil the sensor will recognise it so its probably best to leave it alone. If its first service was at 14k and you have now done 31k i'd suspect it probably aint far off flagging up again anyhow.

cool,cheers for that... will wait till the light comes on then

Dennis do you have the part number for the alternator belt ( and the price ) as this has started to make a blo**y squicking noise

ohh, is it easy to change?

Try some spray on it first, silicone is good, they usually get noisy as they pick up dirt.

Probably PN 06A 260 849C - ribbed v-belt for vehicles with air condit - 21,18 x 1195mm. A whopping

WOW how much!!!!!!!

Should be able to find it cheeper, I hope.....

Thanks for that. You dont think it could be the tensioner also do you? Do you know if anyone else has had these replaced? wonder if you do these together?

You can just change the belt. Have you tried lubing it yet?

Its a bit fiddly

gonna try lubbing it 2morrow, have got some silicone spary at work :-)..

Well so long as everyone else hasn`t used it :thumbdwn:

found the belt for

Ross, tried some silicone spy but it still does it, could I try some wd40?

The niose sounds like it is comming from the plastic tensioner, maybe I could remove this and roughen it up some?

Iff not may just leave it ,but very anoying.