Good evening,

I drive a November 2011 Superb diesel estate, which has covered 15,000 miles, but the service indicator in the MFD still has not come on for its first service. I called the service manager at our dealer, who told me this may not happen until 2 years or 20,000 miles. I'm happy to hear this, but wonder if it would be a good idea to change the oil sooner, perhaps at mid-point between services. Does anyone have any more information, or has anyone experienced any problems in this area?

Alan

Modern oils are claimed to last extremely long periods and hold contaminants in suspension ? if so the oil filtration is not very good. Another point is that with regeneration excess fuel is injected into the combustion chamber much more than is needed for normal running, a lot of this does pass the piston rings and therefore into the engine sump, lot of regeneratiopns means very fuel contaminated oil. Don't under any circumstances rely on the sensor in the sump to tell you the oil needs changing, due to quality llike all electronics they are subject to failure. You will soon notice this as the oil level will increase which will cause considerable problems.

I change the oil and filter every 6 months, or when the oil gets extremely black and has a feeling not like new fresh oil,

Also look at your bill for oil after services, you will most likely find that you are charged for single Litres, not bulk which all dealers use, I know of one dealer who claims you can only buy the correct grade of oil in 1 litre containers.

golden rule for all engines change every 12 months or 12.000 miles 6 months if used in town all the time.average cost of a new engine £6000 average cost to change oil £100 its a no brainier really

bill

The Superb is set to variable servicing from the factory and will run up to a MAXIMUM of around 18,000 miles or 2 years. Sensors monitor the oil quality and will start the countdown as the oil quality starts to reduce.

I ran all three of my Skodas on Variable servicing, covering 54K (3 services) in the first, 100K (5 services) in the second and 44K (2 Services) in the Superb MK2 before selling them. The Superb was only sold due to work changes otherwise I'd still be driving it today. The superb in the last year I owned it covered just 6K miles, 3.5K miles of that were a run to the south of spain and back with the rest being town driving and short runs on 60mph roads.

My 2001 V8 Audi with 182K miles on the clock was until recently run on variable servicing from new. I only changed over because I wanted the car to have regular oil changes due to the intergalactic mileage.

Many thanks. Weighing everything up I think I'll just get the car serviced soon.

Alan