Octavia servicing!

[Transporter]

Mine is 4/12 build. 15k service was done in March of this year. If you could check if my car needs any updates that would be great.

I'd know only for MY10, since we have it in our family. Otherwise it only can be found if the car is connected to diagnostic equipment.

[woofy]

Hmm our car threw an exhaust emissions fault light just now, its getting looked at next Friday, my wife is calling them to see if they can get it any earlier. Seems the slightly higher revs thing that has happened twice at the lights the last fortnight is getting worse. Yes Brad it is silly money, but I figure if something like what's just happened occurs, they can comp me some leeway with any repairs for all the extra Dosh I paid them. They used to be the cheapest dealer around, but the best and cheapest is Geelong and I'm not driving that far with a now more painful issue. Volkspower are not far from us but still undecided as to whether I should break my service history to go with them if this could be the last service before selling the car next year.

[brad]

...maybe they stuffed up something there.

It's a Captiva, the whole car is a stuff-up - especially the suspension damping.

The issue was that they programmed the torque convertor to lock-up (under ideal circumstances) at 1800rpm to minimise fuel economy. Unfortunately, once the vehicle got a few thousand miles on it, the parameters became a bit "grey" and the torque convertor would cycle from lock/unlock very quickly causing a vibration. The software change moved the lock-up point to around 2100rpm.

Surprisingly, my missus chose another Captiva (V6 this time) for her latest vehicle instead of the Passat Alltrack she could have had. Nothing much had changed with the Captiva in the 5 year interim period. It's adequate & gets the job done but it isn't what I'd call a great vehicle.