How Often Should You Service Your Audi?

Are you the proud owner of an Audi? Owning a luxury vehicle like an Audi comes with its perks, but it doesn’t void the same responsibilities all car owners have, such as maintenance. 

Car maintenance is essential to keeping your Audi in pristine condition. But how often should you get your Audi serviced? In this article, we’ll discuss why you should keep your Audi well-maintained and how often it needs to be serviced. 

Why is it important to regularly service your car?

We’re taught to look after ourselves from birth. Consider your parents telling you to brush your teeth twice a day. Why do they do it? If you don’t, your teeth could rot or get damaged, hindering your ability to chew your food. Thus, they need to be well maintained for use. 

The same goes for our cars, particularly cars with a performance engine like an Audi. Cars are made with moving, perishable materials. Over time, these materials degrade and lose their effectiveness, causing the car to underperform. To avoid this, vehicle owners must replace many of these parts with new ones, allowing the engine to operate better. 

However, when these parts are left untreated, they often result in other issues developing. Because the engine functions as a whole, relying on every part to work in conjunction with one another, when one part malfunctions or doesn’t perform as it should, the effect it has on connected parts could be negative. That’s why maintenance is important: It keeps your car running well, mitigates the risk of worse issues developing, and saves you more money further down the road.

How often should you service your Audi?

The health of a car is often measured by how far they’ve been driven. Thus, the service metre is measured the same. Generally, most cars go in for a service every 15,000km. However, Audi recommends taking in one of their cars every 12,000km. However, other factors influence when a car should be serviced. For example, say you take your Audi A5 onto the race track twice a week and flaw it. By putting your engine under so much strain, it might need a service sooner than 12,000km. The same goes for if you drive it like a snail everywhere you go. 

What will they do during a service

There are a few types of services that service centres do, either a basic service, which involves changing the essentials to keep your car running well, or a full service that changes intricate components of your car that are likely to give way, resulting in more damage. Here are some regular things technicians will look at or do when you take your car in for a service:

• Change the spark plugs
• Perform an oil change
• Replace the respective filters (fuel, air, and oil filters)
• Top up the brake fluid or replace it
• Check the tyres
• Check brake pads, discs and the brake fluid hose
• Change the brake pads, discs and the brake fluid hose
• Inspect the radiator and air intake
• Check that all lights are working
• Inspect the battery and ensure that all the electricals are functioning correctly

Can you service your Audi yourself?

Audi’s aren’t like your standard car. Their engines look vastly different, with parts in different places that look different to how they’d normally look. That said, if you have experience working with Audi and the tools to ensure you can get the job done, then yes, you can service your Audi at home. However, we don’t suggest doing that.

Because Audi has more complex engines, one small mistake could be catastrophic. Instead, we suggest taking your Audi to a professional. There are two reasons for this. Firstly, a certified Audi technician has trained to work on Audi, so they’ll know how to diagnose an issue and the right way to repair it. Secondly, you’ll have insurance. If you make a mistake when trying to fix your car, the consequences fall on you; however, if you take the car to a certified Audi service centre, they’ll cover the costs of their mistake if they make one, which isn’t likely. 

Final Thoughts

Serving an Audi is essential to keep it functional and performing well. Remember to carefully track the distance you travel to take your car in for a service when the time comes. A helpful way to do this is to add the 12,000km to your car’s current mileage. Once you hit the calculated distance, book it in for a service.

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