Volkswagen’s compact all-wheeldrive SUV appears to be ageing well and is still a reliable and affordable workhorse, so it’s worthwhile keeping on top of maintenance, especially because, as we discovered, most of the jobs are very straightforward to complete on a DIY basis. Diagnostic equipment is required to communicate with the electronic park brake (handbrake) and switch the rear brakes to service mode should you want to work on them, and replenishing the oil inside the Haldex unit that’s fitted to the rear differential is quite a squeeze, but the routine servicing and checks are easy to get to grips with.
We visited independent Jaguar specialist, Ken Jenkins, who has a suitable Tiguan that needed servicing, so we volunteered to help. The following steps outline everything we found.
Rob says
Our recommended service schedule listed at the end of this Service Bay shows that the air filter should be replaced every 60,000 miles which, in our opinion, is a little too long. Jobs like this can easily get missed, especially with a cabin filter being changed every 20,000 miles, yet a fuel filter with a change interval of every 24 months. We recommend changing all of these filters at least every two years.
