Hi!

I've got a Skoda Fabia Combi 1.4 (2006). The problem is that the car gives a way too short service interval. The car was serviced when having 28000 kilometres (17000 miles) in the meter.

After the service, the car soon announced that the next service should take place after the next 1000 kilometres (620 miles). As this short service interval had no sense, the LongLife service counter was reset. The reset was succesfull as the service alarm was silenced and the car did not give a new service interval value for a while. However, now the car has given a new estimation for the time of service which is again a way too soon: After the next 800 kilometres (500 miles). Obviously, there must be something wrong with the LongLife service interval counter!

Does anyone have any experience concerning this kind of problem?

Hi!

I've got a Skoda Fabia Combi 1.4 (2006). The problem is that the car gives a way too short service interval. The car was serviced when having 28000 kilometres (17000 miles) in the meter.

After the service, the car soon announced that the next service should take place after the next 1000 kilometres (620 miles). As this short service interval had no sense, the LongLife service counter was reset. The reset was succesfull as the service alarm was silenced and the car did not give a new service interval value for a while. However, now the car has given a new estimation for the time of service which is again a way too soon: After the next 800 kilometres (500 miles). Obviously, there must be something wrong with the LongLife service interval counter!

Does anyone have any experience concerning this kind of problem?

Have had he same problem on our Beetle TDI, apparently according to the guy at VW dealer is quite common on MKIV Golf also.

He just reset it and it was ok then, ours came on after 9K though, and was ok after this until it genuinely needed a service.

From what he said though they have seen it quite alot with the longlife service indicators coming on too soon.

Lewwy

Surely a 2006 Fabia doesn't have longlife?

Could this just be that someone only reset the oil interval and not the inspection (or the other way round?)

Correct. No Fabia 1s had variable servicing. Oil change every 10k miles, and inspection service (including oil change) every year. Resetting one indicator manually does not reset the other. That's all that's happened.

Coming on too soon may be an excuse for just not doing when the car's in for service, as it can't be reset manually unless the warning's already showing...

Maybe I just let the service counnter to be reset again as soon as the next 800 km has been passed and hope for the best...

However, according to the manual, this Fabia clearly has the variable servicing in use. It's also true according to the coding sticker showing the service mode selected in the factory. However, the model is the 2006 Fabia I, not the Fabia II of 2007. So, as far as one can trust to the manual of the car and the factory written service mode information, this Fabia I of 2006 has the variable servicing also known as long life service mode. Or, have I somehow misunderstood the meaning of the terms Fabia I and Fabia II?

Fabia I:

Fabia II:

Does the manual say 'QG0' or 'QG1'?

Thanks for the pictures. The car is clearly Fabia I and the manual as well as the sticker says QG1.

Maybe the long life option has been included to the latest versions of the Fabia I cars?

Interesting... My 6/2007 car is clearly QG0 - perhaps they changed the petrol powered cars?

Edited 14 September, 201015 yr by DRJ

Are you sure you were supplied with the right manual? Wouldn't be the first time run-out models shipped with the new model's manual!

I'm pretty sure that none of the Fabia 1s have an oil quality sensor fitted, and theerefore could not possibly be run on long life servicing. If it were my car I would be sticking to the 10,000 mile/12 month intervals.

Are you sure you were supplied with the right manual? Wouldn't be the first time run-out models shipped with the new model's manual!

Yes, I'm sure. The manual has a photo of Fabia I and it seems to be printed in 2005 and the QG1 is discussed there.

And, furthermore, the sticker having the QG1 mentioned is printed for this individual car - it is not a general sticker shared with every car. Don't you have this kind of sticker anywhere?

It shows the service mode and other information related to the individual in question.

Anyway, it is good to rule out the possibility that someone has tried to activate a service mode which does not exist. It could explain the problems if the systems allows to activate a non-existing mode.

However, there is quite a lot of evidence suggesting that the QG1 mode really is available and in use in this Fabia I.

One possibility could be that for a some mysterious reason the QG1 Fabia Is have not be imported to all parts of Europe... But I can't see any reasonable reason for that.

I don't know what the answer is. As far as I know, Fabia Is never had the hardware to support QG1 servicing in the UK, but like you say, maybe they did elsewhere. What I _do_ know is that if your car does support variable servicing, but you reset the service indicator using the dash button rather thasn diagnostics, the car swtiches to QG0 fixed servicing. Maybe that's what's happened?

What I _do_ know is that if your car does support variable servicing, but you reset the service indicator using the dash button rather thasn diagnostics, the car swtiches to QG0 fixed servicing. Maybe that's what's happened?

They did the reset in an official Skoda service. So, I hope they knew what they were doing... I suppose that if the car would have swiched to the QG0, it should not give a service call after two months and few hundred miles of driving. I'm planning to go back to the service place soon and ask them to investigate the problem a little bit in more detail than just resetting it again... Although, I do not know if they can do anyting else than a new reset or replacing all the related electronics... The latter possibility sounds rather costly and thus it might be more wise to really switch to GQ0 if the GQ1 does not work properly.

Hi again...

I just wanted to tell that I went back to the service and the service interval counter was re-reset again. This time the reset seemed to work. At least, I haven't had any problems for few thousands of kilometers since the reset. I do not know if they did anything differently. So, it might be possible that a few resets are needed sometimes for some reason... Or, someone did something wrong earlier...