Sorry but you are missing the point and I'm not grumbling but asking for advice.

Also £90 is not chicken feed for a job I can do myself in 15 mins. plus I have already bought the filter and oil.

I hope someone else can please give me a useful reply.

My useful reply is:

If you diy and then have a warranty claim on the engine , Audi will be perfectly within their rights to dosown you.. I assume you are not an experienced mechanic. So you are not a "competent person" under the law.

Frankly you sound like "penny wise, pound foolish". Save £90 and risk a new engine at £6,000?

Absolute stupidity.

If you can't afford it, why buy it.

So stupid I assume this is another windup.

I have a bit more sympathy for the original poster - it's his car to do what he likes with and the VAG service shedules have not distinguished themselves in terms of long term benefits to the owner.

I bought my Superb with the balance of a manufacturer's warranty. I also decided that it would be in the best interests of long term ownership to make an oil and filter change before the warranty expired. I dont buy oil or filters from VAG (not on my list of favoured sources) - and they don't make them anyway.

Obviously, the oil has to be to spec and the filter reputable - Bosch and Mann & Hummel I have found, through sectioning and testing when in the business, to be the best. I would defy VAG to detect an oil change in a diesel if the correct oil had been used, although the soot loading might be a bit light.

As far as the filter is concerned, I simply saved the OE element I took out until the car was out of warranty. If the engine had become the subject of a warranty claim, the old element would have gone back in.

Sometimes, you have to treat less-favoured traders with the trading practices they apply to their customers...

659.

Changing the oil on a VAG car is not "a 15 minute job", even if you suck it out.