General 80K mile maintenance?

[purbeast0]

Well this past year I have not driven my car much because I take the metro to work. I drove just under 5K miles the whole year.

The past week my check engine light came on so I am going to take it in for that.

I also was wondering if there is any general maintenance/tuneup that I should get done since I'm just around 80K in the mileage department. I haven't done any belt changes or any kind of routine maintenance/tuneups yet at all (other than oil changes of course) so I was wondering if there is something I should get done as well since its 80K miles.

I have a 2003 GTI for what it's worth and it seems to be running well other than the check engine light, and I have noticed an odd noise on the passenger side wheel when I'm slowing down or speeding up initially ... wondering if this has to do w/the check engine light at all though.

Any advice is appreciated.

 

[alkalinetaupehat]

https://wiki.bentleypublishers.com/...hedule+-+2003+-+Jetta,+Golf,+GTI,+Jetta+Wagon

Per the above, you should:

Change the engine oil/filter (It sounds like you do this on-time anyways)
Change the spark plugs
Change the v-belt
Check the timing belt
Change the air filter
and some other stuff that's on the linked webpage. I don't want to type out a big list of stuff that's mostly inspection rather than replacement.

Remember that keeping up with the small things now will nip the big problems in the bud, so you don't end up like me and have to dump $1k in parts into your car over three months to keep it running.

 

[T2urtle]

60k is the bring routine maintence for your mk4 GTI. Should do the listed above.


your CEL might not be related to you noise. The noise could be axle, bearing or brakes. CEL would be engine related. Coolant sensor, o2 sensor. lean/rich faults are very common on your car.

go to autozone and get them to loook up your CEL for free.


if you do into a dealership asking those questions, you will have sucker on your head because they will upsell you worthless stuff for $1000+. go in knowing what the CEL is and possible ways to fix it.

 

[purbeast0]

60k is the bring routine maintence for your mk4 GTI. Should do the listed above.


your CEL might not be related to you noise. The noise could be axle, bearing or brakes. CEL would be engine related. Coolant sensor, o2 sensor. lean/rich faults are very common on your car.

go to autozone and get them to loook up your CEL for free.


if you do into a dealership asking those questions, you will have sucker on your head because they will upsell you worthless stuff for $1000+. go in knowing what the CEL is and possible ways to fix it.

Thanks for the replies guys.

I actually had my bearings and brakes replaced about 2 years ago, so I don't think it is that. It almost sounds like it could possibly be a belt though making odd noises.

I was not aware that autozone will look up hte CEL for free though so I will do that this weekend.

I am not going to go to a dealership though, I am going to go to this guy who I found out from good word of mouth on vwvortex, and he is the same guy who has changed my tires and installed my other brakes and bearings. I'll also ask him to do the general 60k mile maintenance stuff though.

 

[T2urtle]

^ good stuff. most cases forum guys are a little better then dealerships in knowledge and a lot better in price.

Autozone does CEL pulls. Pending on how busy they are. Normally the guy who does it takes a smoke break anyways.

Your serp belt and all your pulleys are on the pass side. Might have a failure in one of those pulley bearings. But might be that axle, i think you said it depends on speed.