Hi.. hoping for some info ... my girlfriend has 2007 VRS SE which is now due a service - its just clicked 20k.

Service history so far is:

21/06/08 - 8430 miles ( oil change )

20/07/09 - 9709 miles ( oil change, brake fluid changed + 'additional work 30 000 km' ticked off - assume this covers the section in the service book under 'in addition every 30 000 km? )

20/04/10 - 10749 miles ( oil change - again! , inspection service ticked)

I'm just trying to understand what it needs doing going into this service as i believe this to be an inspection service but not entirely sure it needs it!

i am thinking an oil/filter change would be all it requires???

Opinions would be welcome.

Thanks

Hi.. hoping for some info ... my girlfriend has 2007 VRS SE which is now due a service - its just clicked 20k.

Service history so far is:

21/06/08 - 8430 miles ( oil change )

20/07/09 - 9709 miles ( oil change, brake fluid changed + 'additional work 30 000 km' ticked off - assume this covers the section in the service book under 'in addition every 30 000 km? )

20/04/10 - 10749 miles ( oil change - again! , inspection service ticked)

I'm just trying to understand what it needs doing going into this service as i believe this to be an inspection service but not entirely sure it needs it!

i am thinking an oil/filter change would be all it requires???

Opinions would be welcome.

Thanks

If it had a service at 10,000 miles and it's now done 20,000 miles then it does need a full service check.

Why did you have your third service 3 months early? It clearly wasn't distance related.

It had a full service July 2009. If you expect to get up to 30k by July 2011, I'd just have an interim service now (i.e. oil change and inspection)

the garage did the third service when we bought the car.

The Skoda servicing schedule is not straightforward and I believe the two responses above suggesting an Inspection Service is required are wrong.

The vRS needs an Oil Change service every 10,000 miles (no time limit) and an Inspection service every year (no mileage limit).

A car doing 10,000 miles or less per annum just needs an Inspection service annually.

A car doing 20,000 miles a year needs an Oil Change service at 6 months (i.e at 10k miles) and an annual Inspection service at 12 months.

Additional work is required at the 20,000 mile service (compared to the 10k Inspection one for vehicles doing less miles) and more additional work is required at the 40,000 mile service. Brake fluid is required every 2 years and cambelt every 4 years or 60,000 miles whichever comes first.

In your case the car missed its first Inspection Service which should have been done in 2008 when it had just an Oil Change instead.

In 2009 it then unnecessarily had a 20k service when all it needed was another ordinary Inspection service.

It's then had an early ordinary annual Inspection Service this year in April as you've noted.

It's now presumably being used for a long distance commute and has thus racked up 9k+ miles in five months. Despite it now being on 20k and in theory needing a 20k service, since it had one in 2009, it just needs an Oil Change this time round assuming this rate of mileage accretion will continue with another 10k miles being added by, say, around the end of March, when it will need a 20k Inspection service at 30k miles - and possibly a cambelt (slightly early at 45 months).

You'll then have to decide what to do at the next service which in theory is only another Oil Change but will coincide with the 40k requirement AND a new cambelt (over 4 years by then) if you didn't get it done early at the March service AND another brake fluid change...

In fact on my car I had the cambelt done separately to a service at exactly 48 months.

Edited 24 September, 201015 yr by DRJ