Have Skoda put wrong oil in my Fabia VRS

[Hewey]

Hi All,

Just had my Fabia serviced at a Skoda Main Dealer, noticed they have put on the invoice that they have used Quantum Longlife oil.

I thought it should be Quantum Platinum, can anyone confirm please?

Cheers

[Gti Fly]

long life is fine

[hockeylad72]

personally I would have preferred Quantum Platinum

[Friggerpants]

If it's PD oil, I wouldn't worry.

[geordie_21]

I'm pretty sure the indy garage I use (Autohaus Dolby in Sheffield) puts the same oil in mine, 5W30 I think it is.

[Jim H]

I've been asked this by another chap, last week. As far as I know, that oil meets and exceeds the spec of normal 505.01 PD oil, so it should be perfectly OK in your engine.

[Timewarp]

Does them using the long life oil mean that you can drive further before your next service, or should you still change the oil after the next 10K?

[martinch]

You can find the specs of the relevant oils here: http://www.thetradepartsspecialists.co.uk/flash/quantum/quantumOils.html

I believe (but don't quote me!) that Skoda have said that the LongLife oil should be OK as it's a superior oil (have a look in the stickied thread for confirmation). However, the Fabia doesn't have the oil condition sensor, so you'd still be on 10k changes.

[Hewey]

Wouldn't run it beyond the 10K in fact usually do an interim anyway!!

Cheers just hope it's ok

[Tech1e]

It's fine, we put longlife in all PDs now to save on stocking so many different types of oil, we brought the price down in between the two to a middle ground. Saves on space and confusion.

[Guest BigJase88]

I dont understand how skoda isnt longlife servicing plan

I had a 52 golf pd130 asz and it was on longlife servicing but a fabia pd130 Asz/blt vrs is on fixed

Beyond me like!!

Edited 13 October, 2011 by BigJase88

[cjb]

It's fine, we put longlife in all PDs now to save on stocking so many different types of oil, we brought the price down in between the two to a middle ground. Saves on space and confusion.

Indeed. My local independent (Midland VW) does the same. The Leon is on normal 10K services, but they use longlife in it, at a reasonable price.

[martinch]

I dont understand how skoda isnt longlife servicing plan

Some are - it depends on whether the car has an oil condition sensor. For example, my parents have an Octavia, one year newer than my Fabia, which is on variable servicing.

I had a 52 golf pd130 asz and it was on longlife servicing but a fabia pd130 Asz/blt vrs is on fixed.

I suppose the question is does the Polo the Fabia is based upon (MK IV?) have a variable servicing option? It would be a bit daft for the Polo to have the sensor and the Fabia not (i.e. no real point spending engineering time to design out something you put in!) ... doesn't mean it's not the case though!

[Guest BigJase88]

Tbh i dont think a golf tdi on a 52 plate has an oil condition sensor? But it was longlife servicing

Also i had a lupo gti that was on longlife servicing and it was an 02 plate

I did however change oil on both cars at 8-10k miles as 20k is stupid

[Tech1e]

Fabia doesn't have pad wear sensors and other things that are required for long life servicing, even the Fabia II is still fixed.