Hi

My 2.0T VRS is just coming up to 37000 and is on variable service.

Serviced at 14,500, then at 29,000 (although the vehicle insisted on a service at 24,000 and the dealer said too early - come back at 28/29,000).

Now it's asking for a service again. I think it's too early and was expecting it around 42,000 - 43,000....

Any ideas if the car's right or too early again? I've got our local dealer checking but they are vauxhall specialists as the Skoda sales was moved to a different dealer....

pp

Mmmm? I would hazard a guess that the wrong spec oil has been put in at service, in other words not the Long Life stuff.

Mmmm? I would hazard a guess that the wrong spec oil has been put in at service, in other words not the Long Life stuff.

I don't think that the car will know that it has got the wrong oil in it, and will base its calculations on the way the car is being used.

On variable, the car will indicate a service at the two year mark, regardless of the mileage. I assume that this is not the case.

If you are doing lots of short journeys and not getting the car warmed up, then it will require servicing at a lower mileage.

They have definitely not left it in fixed servicing have they, in which case the car will indicate a service is required after a year regardless of the mileage?

It was last serviced in April 09 and the sort of mileage it does - 30 mile trip into work and then same back at night every week day (dual carriageway/mway/a-road) has been the same since new - its now just over 2 years old....so it does get warmed up every day....

Variable = 2yrs OR UPTO 18k miles

The car monitors oil quality and can override this though.

The fact your dealer isnt Skoda/VAG specialist suggests they are resetting via the dash which resets the car back to fixed intervals (1yr or 9k miles). This would sound right given the service came back at 24k.

Running past this wasnt/isnt good. Are you 100% sure they used the correct long life oil? If they didnt, and just used VAG compliant (tell me they at least did that!) then you've been risking engine damage and your warranty if it still has one with Skoda. The diagnostics can read mileage and date of last service, as well as when the indication for servicing came on.

There is another thread running and this answer was given:.

"It does sound like its been set to fixed in error, the usual cause of this is reseting the service indicator using the dashpod and not the dealers diagnostic tool. Using the dashpod method sets the dashpod to say its on fixed servicing, but anyone checking the main ecu will see it set to variable. The dealer needs to check that the dashpod coding is correct"

Could be the same thing