Did not work on my 2017 sportwagen, I tried a number of times and my son tried ( he is a service advisor for an independent shop) we tried a number of other vids and although basically same procedure - those did not work either. mine is push button start perhaps there is a separate procedure?? Thanks
No never, would have loved to many times out of curiosity but not an option for us, I don't know of any dealer that does it either, never heard any of my mates that worked with dealers mention it even for warranty (warranty engine failures etc.. )
@@GerardBurkeBurkesGarage we did it all the time and cut oil filters open and layout the filter material and inspect between the pleats however giant cat engines and giant locomotive engines are slightly more costly and you need to pounce the moment something shows up, these are 24/7 engines earning millions. My mate was a ship mechanic he said they'd stand in the bores and manually clean bores with big grinders/wire wheels, he travelled the world, fought in fights for money , downside when I worked with him he had a constant twitch which would effect his right arm due to brain injury from stupid fighting and he welded beautiful with that crazy twitch, you'd never expect that.
@@closertothetruth9209 Oil samples are taken on a regular basis on heavy vehicles, particularly in the mining sector. I teach both light vehicle and heavy vehicle apprentices and no samples are taken by the light industry during normal servicing unless specified or a fault has occurred that needs to be identified. As you said closertothetruth, there is a big price difference between heavy and light engines as well as downtime that companies can't afford. It boggles the mind when you see some of those huge engines in action, like the cathedral engines in the big tankers! Good comment! 😊👍
@@MiracleMAX years and years ago at the lab I worked at they charged only $25 for an oil test hate to think what it is now, after working there I was back on the tools in the mining.
@@closertothetruth9209 The apprentices in the mining sector were saying that the sample kit and analysis is about $60 odd dollars, which is cheap compared to an engine repair and down time.
I own a 2015 Golf TDi, bought it new and have serviced it more regular than ever required. About a year ago a Oil Change Service display showed up (which I know wasn’t accurate) and ever since then it comes on every 400 miles, I reset it as per protocol requires which makes it good for another 400 miles. I have stopped at three different VW dealers to ask what happening, they simply go through a normal reset procedure and tell me it’s fixed.. until 400 miles later and it displays a service reminder again… the vehicle runs fine. Any ideas what is causing this to happen?
@@diegocm91 yes, I worked out what the problem was, I did my own service work on the car, the oil change reminder comes on at regular mileage intervals, however, when the car reaches a higher mileage the service requires a VW specialty service which also activates an oil change reminder every 400 miles and the reset that can only be done by VW factory software ($$$$) I never did any of the VW required servicing, I just conducted common sense work on the vehicle which has now 200,000 miles on and runs like brand new.. just have to reset the oil change reminder every 400 miles.. hope this helps!
