You have a service at 10,000 miles or 1 year, what ever is first.

Agreed

If your car gets to 10k it has a 10k service which is an oil and filter change.

Agreed

If it gets to a year and has not done 10k then it has an annual which is a oil and filter and inspection.

Agreed

If your car gets to 10K first it has to have the lube service' date=' but you then dont have to have it serviced for another 10,000 miles or a year.[/quote']

A most emphatic NO! Where does it say that? It HAS to have an ANNUAL INSPECTION at 12 months!

If you are doing 30k a year then you will have..

10k - lube service

20k - inspection

30k - lube service

There will be no annual inspections as you are doing more than 10k a year. Incidentally the 20k service is the same as an annual inspection with the exception on a 20k you change the pollen filter.

Agreed in a sense - although you should say "There will be no annual inspections as you are doing more than 20k a year" - here's the Service Book advice:

"Every 10' date='000 miles carry out an Oil Change Service.

After one year carry out an Annual Inspection, the Annual Inspection always then includes an Oil Change Service.

If the car is driven 10,000 miles before one year has elapsed, carry out an Oil Change Service

If the car is driven more than 20,000 miles in a year, the Inspection Service should be carried out every 20,000 miles and not once a year."[/color']

- the problem relates really to cars doing between 10,000 and 20,000 miles.

[addendum - corrections made]

Last service in the book states inspection service and oil change carried out at 10192 miles, on the 14 feb. So i wait till 20k comes up for the next service.

Well at least that solves your dilemma. The Inspection Service has been carried out and hence you ARE OK until 20,000 at your driving rate.

So you either need to ask the dealer why the Service Indicator has come up at this point and get him to reset it, or just accept there's nothing amiss and reset the indicator following the procedure noted in the manual.

However note that it might not then come on at 20,000 miles since it'll think you've only done 6,000 miles.

Thanks everyone, finally got there!

How can something that is designed to make it easier to understand the stupidly complex servicing schedule make it twice as hard to understand!!! Its probably the wording in the handbook as even my saxo had a similiar pattern for servicing.

Do people actually forget to have a car serviced? Its not hard to understand every 10k miles it needs to visit the garage.

im confused :( :(