Hi all - I've had my monster since January, and am on QG1 variable servicing. The MFD is telling me that the first service is due in 11000 miles, 443 days. I've only done about 7700 miles, and not likely to do more than another 1000 before next Jan. Do you think that I should get it reset to fixed servicing, or would you recommend sticking to variable and just changing the oil after a year? Cheers

http://www.volkswagen.co.uk/owners/servicing/regimes

Have mine on time and distance, despite doing around 13,000 per year. Living on the Wolds I'm regularly up and down hills, thus loading and unloading the engine (see gagetmans link).

Have taken out one of Skoda's two year service plans for £299 (get a£50 accessories voucher) which effectively covers you for one full service and one oil change.

TP

I'm also on time & distance. I cover about 15,000miles a year, but drive around South London most of the time. Occasionally I get let out. :lol:

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TP, are these service plans still available, I would be interested in one for my SM but can't find any info on them anywhere.

TP, are these service plans still available, I would be interested in one for my SM but can't find any info on them anywhere.

Hi,

not sure to be honest, they were last month as I got a flier advertising the plan from D M Keith but I'd already responded to earlier fliers from Roberts down in Hull for both the wife's Fabia last year (£100 voucher then) and then the Yeti this year.

Ask your local dealers is the best bet :wonder:

Regards,

TP

TP,

Thanks, I will check round some of the dealers.

I have always been on variable service with numerous VAG cars, all have been services at about 17 to 19,000 miles and all cars did about 120,000 in three years with varied driving on all sorts of roads and under different loads too.

I really don't see what the worry about variable servicing is, just wait for the car to say it wants one.

I have always been on variable service with numerous VAG cars, all have been services at about 17 to 19,000 miles and all cars did about 120,000 in three years with varied driving on all sorts of roads and under different loads too.

I really don't see what the worry about variable servicing is, just wait for the car to say it wants one.

The extent and nature of your driving make you a perfect candidate for variable servicing. If like me you do up to 10,000 a year with quite a lot of short journeys annual fixed servicing makes good sense.

Well I have been offered the £299 2YR servicing deal yesterday from a Manchester dealer (its a skoda offer) so I am just seeing what it offers for the money, cheers - Stuart

Hi all - I've had my monster since January, and am on QG1 variable servicing. The MFD is telling me that the first service is due in 11000 miles, 443 days. I've only done about 7700 miles, and not likely to do more than another 1000 before next Jan. Do you think that I should get it reset to fixed servicing, or would you recommend sticking to variable and just changing the oil after a year? Cheers

I'd stick with the 'variable' regime and fettle/pamper your Yeti with the luxury of an oil change now, rather than in January.

Your 1st service, will the be likely to be due in June/July next year.

PS> This is what I am doing with Kevin.

I'd stick with the 'variable' regime and fettle/pamper your Yeti with the luxury of an oil change now, rather than in January.

Your 1st service, will the be likely to be due in June/July next year.

PS> This is what I am doing with Kevin.

+1

Alternate oil change only when you get mid way between the indicated service and then the full dealer service at the proper time. I have just used an oil suction device to change the oil on my SM (at 27k) - quite a doddle. Just ensure that you use the correct grade of synthetic oil and genuine filter. Looks like the second full service will crop up at about 37k.

But the oil is designed to last the life between services. I understood the car monitors the type of driving and adjusts the service interval to suit. It also can detect degradation in the oil eg dilution with another grade of oil and call for a service much earlier.

Mine came up for its first service at 19k, about 13 months use, but in my previous car (Skoda Superb) I was driving less for work and it nearly went 2 years before the first service was indicated as needed.

Surely this is money down the drain as any first owner will never see the benefit of this. How many people buy a car and reach 100k in it without changing, usually only the odd company car and they will ahve been serviced as needed, like mine. As abused company cars will easily reach 150k without a problem, a private vehicle doing say 60k before being sold will never benefit from this.

The only real argument for a shorter, hence time related service is for a safety check as no MOT on new vehicles, on vehicles doing a low annual mileage?

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Interim oil changes can affect your distance between services on variable, and shorten them as the car see's the oil quality change considerably.

It may also cause you warranty issues should a fault occur and Skoda put it down to the oil change. You are only covered for works where a VAT registered garage has been used.

Interim oil changes can affect your distance between services on variable, and shorten them as the car see's the oil quality change considerably.

It may also cause you warranty issues should a fault occur and Skoda put it down to the oil change. You are only covered for works where a VAT registered garage has been used.

The service interval actually has not altered one bit since I changed the oil myself - about 1,000 miles ago. It wanted the dealer at 37k and that's still what it indicates now.

The oil and filter used are to the exact specification required by Skoda and I would be very doubtful of any warranty issues occurring as a result. My first 'interim' service had zero affect on the scheduled first dealer service mileage either. It showed 18k before the change at 9k and that was the mileage it needed the first dealer service.

How would Skoda know unless the oil was of the wrong quality (it's not), the filter was replaced with a pattern filter (again it has not) or any of you lot were to grass me up.

I still consider it £40 well spent (the cost of 1/2 tank of diesel!) and I don't intend to keep the car for more than 100k. I think it's well spent as most private secondhand buyers seem to be happier to know that the car they are thinking of buying has not just relied on 20k miles between oil changes and they are comforted by the idea of more frequent changes.

It may be my imagination but the car also feels more responsive following the oil change and fuel economy also seems to have improved.

The service interval actually has not altered one bit since I changed the oil myself - about 1,000 miles ago. It wanted the dealer at 37k and that's still what it indicates now.

The oil and filter used are to the exact specification required by Skoda and I would be very doubtful of any warranty issues occurring as a result. My first 'interim' service had zero affect on the scheduled first dealer service mileage either. It showed 18k before the change at 9k and that was the mileage it needed the first dealer service.

How would Skoda know unless the oil was of the wrong quality (it's not), the filter was replaced with a pattern filter (again it has not) or any of you lot were to grass me up.

I still consider it £40 well spent (the cost of 1/2 tank of diesel!) and I don't intend to keep the car for more than 100k. I think it's well spent as most private secondhand buyers seem to be happier to know that the car they are thinking of buying has not just relied on 20k miles between oil changes and they are comforted by the idea of more frequent changes.

It may be my imagination but the car also feels more responsive following the oil change and fuel economy also seems to have improved.

Agree with the above 100%. My yeti is looking like a keeper so I get the dealer to do the yearly stamped service for the book and I have an interim six monthly/ five thousand mile service done also using genuine and correct spec oil and filter

I would just run the car until it asks for a service. All my cars have been serviced around the 20k mark.

That said, I the latest VAG cars have had the long life service raised from approx 20k miles to 30k miles! I am sure lots of research will have been done by VAG to make sure this is possible without damaging engines.

Agree with the above 100%. My yeti is looking like a keeper so I get the dealer to do the yearly stamped service for the book and I have an interim six monthly/ five thousand mile service done also using genuine and correct spec oil and filter

I think you're being unnecessarily paranoid.

Any good oil has been able to reach 15k without issues for many years now, so 18k isnt actually that much different. Some manufacturers WANT you to get serviced every 10k as it's their bread and butter. These are the same brands that will ALWAYS find something wrong which is chargeable, or flog you engine flushes and aircon cleaning that arent needed.

If it makes you feel warm and fuzzy to do oil changes, you're only wasting your own cash and time. BUT the car DOES record the oil quality, and will be checked if any engine damage. Cough Turbo, cough turbo.

If you're happy with that risk, and the fact it *could* cost you £2k if they decline a turbo repair under warranty, I'd be sticking to either a fixed regime or Variable only and leaving the oil changes alone.

I think you're being unnecessarily paranoid.

Any good oil has been able to reach 15k without issues for many years now, so 18k isnt actually that much different. Some manufacturers WANT you to get serviced every 10k as it's their bread and butter. These are the same brands that will ALWAYS find something wrong which is chargeable, or flog you engine flushes and aircon cleaning that arent needed.

If it makes you feel warm and fuzzy to do oil changes, you're only wasting your own cash and time. BUT the car DOES record the oil quality, and will be checked if any engine damage. Cough Turbo, cough turbo.

If you're happy with that risk, and the fact it *could* cost you £2k if they decline a turbo repair under warranty, I'd be sticking to either a fixed regime or Variable only and leaving the oil changes alone.

I think they'd more easily discover the remap (which ive actually been open about to the local dealer) than worry about checking the quality of the oil... If I was running standard power I'd be happy to stick to fixed annual servicing. :-)

I think they'd more easily discover the remap (which ive actually been open about to the local dealer) than worry about checking the quality of the oil... If I was running standard power I'd be happy to stick to fixed annual servicing. :-)

You like to live on the edge, LOL.

You like to live on the edge, LOL.

Yep, thats me!

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