I have just found out from s e r v i c i n g s t o p dot co dot uk that you can service your car at a non Skoda garage and retain the warranty. The law is that I believe as long as the garage uses geniune oem parts to service the car retains warranty under the EU Motor Vehicle Block Exemption Regulation (MVBER) which has been in place since 2002. I believe this was introduced to allow fair competition so that main dealers can't rip us off by saying we can only go to a main dealers in order to r