JohnBob

Everything pretty much equal apart from the car. 40k was when all 4 tyres were swapped having been rotated front to back.

I have an iV on 19" wheels and based on wear so far, think the set will last ~20k miles. I drive like Miss Daisy, and previously got 40k miles with 17" wheels on a 2.0Tdi, both wagons. I think car weight and wheel size have an effect, though I can't prove the latter.

They are telling me the IV is fixed. Oil& filter at 12months/X Miles. I think X is actually 15000km which works out at 9320 Miles. (VW do quote 9300) but people colloquially say 10K miles. Even when not running on electric, the IV does cut in and out much more than a regular ICE only car so I presume this is the reason for the restriction on variable service.

My colleague has the same car from Bridgewater Skoda, who have told him variable servicing but I suspect he is about to find out different.

I took my lease Superb iV into Skoda Exeter today to have it set to variable servicing instead of fixed. The tech. came out, took one look and said IVs are fixed 12months/10,000 miles and that was it. The salesman had previously told me that it could be variable (After I had the car not as part of an upfront contract). IVs were very new then. Skoda donlt define this in their literature (that I can find) so I also checked the VW GTE servicing and that looks like fixed 12months/10K miles. I used to do 30K miles pa. 3 services a year!?!!

Hi Rory, I have had an IV for 12 months so can give you the detail. The IV reports the ICE range and the Electric range separately. When you fill up it always seems to revert to 400miles range on the ICE, regardless of past performance. (I think my previous Superb diesel did report the range based on the average consumption of the last tank). If you drive more economically then you see the range increasing - or simply not going down and if you push-on the opposite happens. I drive frugally and see about 500 miles from a tank. It has hard to say as you will have recharged the battery a few times in between so the total distance between fill-ups may well be much longer. I have only been on short trips recently and I always recharge so mostly using electric. The car was reporting 200 mpg as I was just not using fuel. I think this is what causes the fuel only range to reset to the arbitary 400 miles and then update rather than trying to use a possibly v. unrealistic average from the last tank. The fuel tank is smaller on the iV but still a useful 55litres. I previously had a Mitsu Outlander PHEV and that had a 30-something litre tank which gave serious range anxiety. Today I learnt that the service intervals on the IV are fixed 10,000 miles/1 year. No longlife option which is a bit scary as a previous 30K Miles pa driver. Working from home I have only done 6k miles in the first year and now it is screaming service. I am going to check on this in case the dealer had it wrong. Will correct this if I find out differently.

I have just taken delivery of this iV to replace my Petrol Blue TDI

Thanks for the heads-up on the manual and hellos. I will check on the manual as the car was built in March just before the factory closed. I would look on here if I was stuck! How are you enjoying your iV JJC? I had a Mitsubishi Outlander PHEV before my first Superb and it was interesting, with 5 levels of brake retardation to play with. It also had a CVT gearbox which was not good when you ran out of charge! I am hoping the DSG box answers that issue.

This is a strange one. My car was ordered at the end of January (Superb iV) for delivery end of June (that is when my current lease car went back). I called the dealer at end of May to ask how late it would be and he said actually it is built. It arrived at the dealer around 2 July. My colleague at work ordered his car one week earlier and at the end of May it was like yours, still not a twinkle in the schedulers eye. He created merry hell with Skoda UK etc etc and they have found him a car but they were not going to build the one ordered until Late August which would have been the 2010MY version, not that that is significant. So I don't think there is anyway of predicting but you are not alone. Just have to push your dealer.

I was watching a video about the MK8 Golf last week and it has lost the bonnet struts that it has had for years; and gone back to a cheap rod. The video was from Europe so maybe it is not across all markets, but still amusing if Golf and Octavia have 'swapped'.

Hello, I am currently without a car as my lease Skoda Superb TDI has gone for auction and my new Superb Estate L&K IV is at the dealership awaiting paperwork, so not long now to re-join the fold. As a company car driver, you could argue I have less investment in the brand but it is the only time I have ever stayed with the same model, so that must say something. Will post some pictures when I finally get the new motor.