Hi all,

New to the forum and Skoda ownership (VAG man for a few years now). Enjoying reading up on the new car before I pick it up.

Skoda dealership is offering a service plan specific to their shop at £14/month for first 3 year servicing, so total cost <£450. Does this sound reasonable to you guys in the know?

Quick glance at Skoda website shows servicing costs as:

1st year- £150

2nd year-£250

So seems quids in, but I'll defer to your greater wisdom!

Thanks,

Penfold

Welcome to the forum.

 

Which Skoda & doing what sort of Annual Mileage, or use, & how long are you keeping the car.

Petrol or Diesel.

So are you going on Fixed Servicing or Varable/Flexible Sevricing.

 

Can you go to any Skoda Dealer for your Service. ?

Consider that some items are replaced, 'If Required'

 

£150 for a Minor Service is a high price you have found,

as is £250 for the Major Service,

That might be with Long Life Oil for Variable Servicing.

 

Up to what suits you,

& maybe Location and choice of Servicing Garages.

 

george

 

EDIT PS

If you are looking at the 'National Pricing' Servicing and Maintenance.

Look at the Small Print, if that is for Cars over 3 year old on Fixed Servicing etc

Because that Prices can often be bettered.

As per what George says 

 

When the girlfriend bought her 1.6tdi Fabia  we adjusted the finance by £3.00 per month over three years to get two years free servicing which I thought was a bargain

Hi,

Car is a Monte Carlo Tech, 1.2TSi. I just put the details into Skoda's homepage, book a service page and those were the prices which popped up, no specific details. A casual chat with service guys gave an estimate of total servicing costs of £450 for petrol and £600 for diesel.

I'm limited in terms of local dealers so it's either these guys or independents.

Doesn't feel like a bargain, but it's not miles off either as far as I can tell.

Thanks for the help,

Penfold

Enjoy your car.

 

What sort of annual mileage will you be doing?

Some with the same car and doing similar mileage can maybe tell you what it is costing them.

Or what they have paid to have the car serviced in the first 3 years.

 

The difference there you mention on Diesel & Petrol Serving cost seem a bit much.

(but as it is, the vED on the Diesel being less would cover that extra, but really, better economy makes 

the diesel a winner if you are doing a higher mileage.)

 

george

My first service was £130 I think and the second was £230 (IIRC).  Better than the Skoda National Pricing Index shown on their site.

 

This was a Minor ("10000 mile"/12 months) and Major ("20000 mile"/24 months), with prices quoted by the dealer when I booked. 

 

For me those distances came up after only 18 months, but you might make the annual servicing limit, not mileage, depending on what you cover.

 

The next service will be a minor, so add another £130 on (but it will be a different dealer).

 

All in, c.£500, so if offered 3 years for £14p.m (by my maths, £504) then you work out about even.  Of course, you can't change dealer if you're not happy with their service and you may get better prices at another service centre.

 

Oh and George has changed himself again!!

Hi,

I'm impressed with the speed of good responses on this forum, thanks all.

It's just under £14/month so official figure is just under £440, so some savings I guess. The loss of freedom to choose where to service plus it's on PCP (never never I know...) with predicted annual mileage under 10k means I may not need "final" service.

Overall savings insufficient to justify it from what you're saying.

Thanks for all of your help and quick responses,

Penfold

Haggle. The dealer likes to buy in used cars with known history. It's the old "we've serviced this car from new and the owner had another one from us" sales pitch.

So they want you to take this option.

So ask for it to be £13 a month. They can only say no.

Haggle. The dealer likes to buy in used cars with known history. It's the old "we've serviced this car from new and the owner had another one from us" sales pitch.

So they want you to take this option.

So ask for it to be £13 a month. They can only say no.

 

When I bought my Roomster a year ago the 3 year/30k miles fixed servicing deal was being thrown in for "free".  At the time it was billed as a £360 saving but that may be excluding VAT.

 

They also know that there will always be some little chargeable extra at each service that is excluded from the deal so there is more money in it for them.

 

I would push for £10 per month. - in fact ask them to throw it I for free or you walk away...