After a bit of advice please folks..

 

Had the "oil service" light bong about 900 miles ago when I was at 8600 miles. Car on fixed servicing with estimated mileage at 10k a year (PCP deal, 'free' servicing) - I realise I'm going to be over this!

 

Had a holiday trip to Scotland last week and have since now covered 9750 miles.

 

According to my dealer I should book in before 10k miles or 1 year, whichever is soonest. Is the servicing fixed in relation to what mileage I agreed to as part of my PCP? i.e. If I'd agreed 12k miles, would my first service be at 12k miles?

 

Or do I wait until the year is up, no matter what the mileage will be by then? In truth it won't be heaps more as usage will be dropping considerably in the next week or so.

 

Thing is, if I have a service at every 9 months or so I'll have used up my 3 free services in 2 and 1/4 years! 

 

Thanks

 

 

No, if it's on fixed servicing it needs to be done at that point as the dealer and the car says - the PCP mileage limit is irrelevant.

As an aside, the UK service intervals are quoted at 10k miles, but the cars are still set to the European 15000km, so your car will start warning you very early.

Fixed servicing is 10k/1 year whichever comes first....the computer converts Kms directly to miles (Kms being the cars native mileage units) so will bring up the warning early. Mine is due a service in about 1500 miles but its currently saying service in 500 miles....it will therefore be ignored.

On variable its slightly more complicated....technically servicing is then 20k/2 years but the car adjusts the need for servicing based upon usage/oil quality so its best to get a car serviced when it says so on variable rather than holding out to 20k miles/2 years even though the car never starts out on a 20k interval (think its 18.6k miles - a direct conversion from 20k kms).

Im in a similar position to you...due to a change in living and working circumstances my annual mileage rose from about 11k/year to 25/30k....my car is 20 months old and fast approaching its 30k 3rd free service.....I have however taken a company car and my wife now has the Octavia....does maybe 100-150 miles per week compared to my 6-700 so is v much addressing the mileage issue.

Once its had its 3rd service (probably required in the next 6-8 weeks or so) i'll be put on variable and I hope not to have to service it then between that point and the end of the PCP.

Edited 12 November, 201510 yr by pipsypreturns

I reckon it will take a good 2-3 weeks to get to 10k so will get her booked in soon and by then the mileage will be dropping back so perhaps not so bad for the future.. Good idea re variable servicing too.

 

Thanks chaps, good to get things cleared up

I thought that variable servicing is meant to be for cars covering over 10K/annum and not predominantly short journeys.

My car is set to variable servicing and I was driving 13K+ per year but my mileage has now dropped to nearer 9K. The car is showing a service due in 9K+ miles but I will have it serviced in January and swapped to fixed service intervals.

My vRS is now set to fixed and reckons servicing is required at about every 9300 miles (and annoying starts reminding circa 2000 miles out from this).

Mine is set to fixed and due the 2nd service (inspection) very soon.

 

I got a warning for the 2nd oil change to be due at something like 18,800, but it didn't reckon the Inspection service was due until about 19,800 miles.

 

So it is booked in for half way between the two roughly - I reckon it will have done about 19,300 when it goes in

Edited 12 November, 201510 yr by andyvee

Yep, had this come up on mine. Only had the car just over 10 months with 7700 on the clock.

It's a lease car 2 year so it looks like I'll need service it twice?

Can I adjust this with VCDS?

Yep, had this come up on mine. Only had the car just over 10 months with 7700 on the clock.

It's a lease car 2 year so it looks like I'll need service it twice?

Can I adjust this with VCDS?

You can, but what does your lease agreement specify for servicing?

Sent from my HTC One_M8 using Tapatalk

Well I called my local dealer today. The service manager said the car has long life oil in it and that the car should be on variable servicing.

He then informed me how to reset the indicator via the multi function steering wheel (couldn't work it out though) and said just bring it in next time it then goes off.

I called Volkswagen/Skoda finance and they checked with their maintenance team and said it was ok to reset it too and they'll add notes the system.

So I'm taking that as the green light to change it to variable and reset the service indicator light.

Reset the service indicator, very easy to do but it's doing it the UDS way as it's a newer cluster. Unfortunately I can't work out how to change it to long life service in VCDS. 

You have to change all the values for mileage and days on the adaptation channels.

Good Luck, I think there might be something on the Ross Tech Wiki

Sent from my HTC One_M8 using Tapatalk

Think I'll just leave it as it is. Car will be going back in a year but at least I'll only have to do one service, although maybe I'll have to get the inspection service done now instead of the £139 oil change.

Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk