Your car service can be when you want. You are paying.  There is long life oil in, but then Dealership use long life with Variable or Fixed Servicing.

 

Have it done at 9,400 miles (10,000) miles if you want. Oil & Filter change & Pollen Filter if you want. Or at 12 months from it had its PDI.

being an ex demonstrator i would advice you do. 

 

You can then ask to have it on Fixed Servicing from then on, 9,400 miles / 372 days.  1 year 1 week, which ever comes first.

Depends on how you use the car, but best not go variable unless you are doing 18,000 miles or so a year, or more, 

even then i would stay with oil & filter changes every 10,000 miles.

http://volkswagen.co.uk/owners/servicing/regimes 

Edited 5 December, 20178 yr by AwaoffSki

i've go a bit of a problem here. there were a few defects with our 6mth old fabia 1.2. the dealership are putting them right, in a rather grudging way, but they have offered the next two services free to compensate for errors on their part. if i start messing with the service intervals i think that they will get funny over it and renege on the deal. they really are not at all customer friendly.

Not their place to get funny. 

  So if they are paying for 2 services that will be a Minor and Major,    or a Major and Major, 

 

& they are not doing 2 majors, one in 18 months and another 24 months later.

 

If you want a service in 6 months and another 12 months later that is your business, and the Service Desk or Dealer Principle can discuss that.

 

Hopefully when you are finished with getting your car sorted you can post in the Dealer Section on your experience with them.

Remember in the Survey you get tell them how unfriendly you found them to  be.

On 05/12/2017 at 23:48, AwaoffSki said:

Not their place to get funny. 

  So if they are paying for 2 services that will be a Minor and Major,    or a Major and Major, 

 

& they are not doing 2 majors, one in 18 months and another 24 months later.

 

If you want a service in 6 months and another 12 months later that is your business, and the Service Desk or Dealer Principle can discuss that.

 

Hopefully when you are finished with getting your car sorted you can post in the Dealer Section on your experience with them.

Remember in the Survey you get tell them how unfriendly you found them to  be.

 

yes will do - is poor after service provision common? I have been quite taken aback at the lack of interest shown in legitimate complaints (about problems that never should have arisen)  once money has been handed over, a case of nice product (skoda) shame about the attitude of the franchise.

Edited 8 December, 20178 yr by bollard

Engine component materials, and machining tolerances, have changed beyond recognition in the past 20 years. As have lubricants. Oil change intervals have as much to do with what the local market will stand...pay for...as for any technical reason. My previous Volvo S60 with the wonderful D5 5-pot turbo diesel was stated as 18,000 miles/1 year oil changes regardless of mileage. Low mileage = Annual oil change but higher mileages were fine within the year.

 

oil change intervals in USA have, historically, been a joke. 3000 or 5000 miles not uncommon, using same quality oils found in Europe.....from same manufacturers.  

 

Someone mentioned Quantum lubes. Quality is very good so don't be put off because it's not either 'specialist' or expensive. 

'Quantum' Oils / Lubricants are certainly OK, so are Castrol and VW Recommend them and VW Group Main Dealerships service using them.

They also have Long Life OIls & Service Intervals.  There might just be an Issue worth considering, if you want Fixed Servicing should you maybe use the correct 'Quantum Oil' just not the Long Life.

 

I also had a Volvo S60 until last year, a T5 petrol.

One that had a new  engine at a few years old, the Volvo problem from Ford having owned them, and also from people not understanding the oil required.

 

Edited 10 December, 20178 yr by AwaoffSki

I was under the impression that Quantum were effectively VW's 'preferred supplier', a bit like the way a lot of cars used to have stickers on the back window saying things like 'Renault recommends Castrol' or whatever. For some reason I always associate those stickers with the French brands!

Do Renault not recommend the same as Citroen & Peugeot.  TOTAL.

 

Most reliable Vehicles in the world maybe, Lexus, Toyota, Honda, Nissan so go by their favoured oil Producer maybe.

 

JLR and VW, Audi, SEAT, Skoda, BMW, MINI, Mercedes/ Renault Engines. Some of the greatest engine failures out of Warranty, 

so is their Oil Recommendations / Service Schedules worth a bag of beans.

Edited 11 December, 20178 yr by AwaoffSki