I've just had a 30k service on my Octavia vRS (mk2). It's on variable servicing, but because I had 30k free servicing on it I took it in roughly every 10k, which is only a few hundred miles prior to when the counter has been saying it needs it anyway. Anyway, I looked at my service log book the other day and noticed that it's been marked as the dealers replacing the oil with oil not for variable service regimes for each of the 3 services...

What problems might this cause me and what do you think I can/should do about it? :confused:

My car does seem to use a lot of oil too. I've had it from new and shortly before my last service my oil level dropped to minimum, which is unusual according to the other threads on here..?

Cheers

PS, It's a petrol

My gut feeling is I wouldn't worry about the oil type, even though you say you've been on variable, really you've been following fixed and using "fixed oil", so should be ok.

But have they also followed the fixed schedule for other service items such as filters etc? The only thing that would bother me is if they have followed variable servicing generally, but followed fixed just for oil!

I reckon you'll find they have just been following fixed for everything though...

If your car has been serviced every 10'000 miles or at least once a year then you might not need the long life oil.

I'm not sure if the 2.0 TFSI VRS needs the VW504 oil under all circumstances or if you can use a lesser grade for fixed interval services.

If you want to be on variable servicing you will need the correct oil put in at the next 10k mile service and the servicing set by a dealer to variable from fixed.

Cheers people.

I'll give the dealership a call to find out what they've been doing. The car is still set to variable servicing as almost straight after collecting it from its last service I checked the time to next service and it said 9300 (obviously I don't drive all that economically!). Ideally I'll be wanting to improve on that, and stick with variable as I'm looking to move up north in a while and will be driving back darn sarf fairly regularly.

I do know on my 55 reg Polo, if I use the oil for the fixed service (5w40) it does seem to use some, but when I have use the oil for the longlife service (5w30 LLIII) it doesnt seem to use a drop...

All I can assume is that for some reason with the lower spec oil more becomes airborne and comes out through the crankcase breather and gets dumped back into the intake and gets burned off. There is a proper name for this but cant for the life of me think what it is.