My car was serviced last September, and the car has  now covered 10,000 miles  from when it was last serviced but ony now has the service indicator stated to show 1000 miles to next service. 

 

Does the above indicate that the car has been set to variable servicing, if so if I am only to gain 1000 more miles from variable servicing, I cant see the point of variable servicing for more.

 

FYI my daily commute of 17 miles consists of the following :-

 

A Road 4 miles

B Roads 10.7 miles

Town Roads 2.3 miles

 

Average speed 23 mph

Edited 15 August, 201312 yr by SKOD

They may have reset it on fixed servicing. Variable can cover anything up to 30k on TDIs

Going by the average speed of your commute, I would service it at least every year/10k anyway.

 

Mine is set on fixed and definitely comes on 9k miles after it was last reset.

For the sake of £50 I do an oil & filter change at least once a year

Your journey is not really suited to variable.  Variable is best placed for long trips, not short slow speed trips.  I run mine on variable and get the full 30k, but my round trip to work is 120 miles.

 

Fixed is 10k, so I would suspect yours had been set to variable but the short trips have ruined the benefits of variable servicing and thus only given you 11k.

Thanks for the responses.

First of all to clarify my total daily commute is 32,miles average speed 25 mph and I cover around 11000 miles a year.

Anyway had the car serviced and have put the on fixed servicing distance

Id always sooner want the fixed servicing.

The mark 1 can't use variable it doesnt have the tech for that!

And you can set the interval to whatever you want via vag-com (mine is set at 7500)

@ big Chase according to the boot sticker and service book the car left the factory set up for variable service intervals.

On a mk1 octavia?

I doubt it as it doesnt have the oil quality sensor

Thats how variable works does it not? The car senses the quality of the oil then tells you when it needs changed?

Mine has been run on variable servicing and that was how it was set when it left the factory according to the boot sticker. I assume that it does have the necessary oil quality sensor, there is certainly a sensor attached to the sump on mine. SWMBO's Fabia was a year newer than mine and could not be set to variable servicing as it had no sensor.

I have once, when I was doing 500 miles per week, let it run to see how long it would go before calling for a service and it went 27,000 miles before it said it was due. I don't like leaving it that long and am now doing far fewer miles each month, so have gone back to fixed intervals.

The mkI diesels certainly could do variable servicing, mine was set to variable when I got it.

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