If you go to Skoda UK's site, click on Business Sales then fleet Management. At the bottom of that page there are downloadable Excel spreadsheets giving running costs for the Fabia, Octavia and Superb.

For the Fabia 1.9vRS on an extended servicing regime the 10K (lubrication) and 20K (inspection and lubrication) costs are shown as

Hmm, so WTF did I get charged

David Ian ltd is a main Skoda dealer in Morecambe the exact price charged for the 10000 service is

When I dropped my car off at JBS on Saturday I mentioned this thread and asked about there 10k service cost for an Octavia vRS and they quoted

When we purchased our Fabia vRS in the summer we were told that the 10k service would be about

I think I'll be looking into the legalities of vat registered independent garages doing the work whilst retaining the warranty.

I e-mailed Skoda UK about whole issue. Their first reply was platitudinous corporate-speak and I told them so. They then came back with this:

Dear Mr Schtum,

Thank you for your further email. I am sorry that you found my reply unsatisfactory.

I would like to clarify that whilst we recommend that servicing is carried out by an approved

I paid about 88 squids for my 10k service from D.M. Keith in Leeds - seems that was very reasonable given some of the prices quoted in this thread...

OK, my 10k service for fabia vrs as follows:

From the first line in the invoice, I guess it's

paid 114 pound for my first service , so 175 far to much !!!

i got my 10k service for

Well, this thread's been going on so long that having posted my

Oh well, I guess the moral must be that I seem to be one of the only ones to get ****-raped off the dealer.... glad you got it cheap though. I'm not planning to buy another car in the very forseeable future (probably well over 5 years time) but if I was it would not be another Skoda due to their disgraceful servicing with me at least. You probably even got your car cleaned for your

Oh well, I guess the moral must be that I seem to be one of the only ones to get ****-raped off the dealer.... glad you got it cheap though. I'm not planning to buy another car in the very forseeable future (probably well over 5 years time) but if I was it would not be another Skoda due to their disgraceful servicing with me at least. You probably even got your car cleaned for your

Just a few pence over

Just a few pence over