Hello,

Just wondering when service interval will say what it is? Oil is set as 17k, so will be 18700 from new. Service interval still at max after 1700 miles. How many more miles to do until it says?

Mike

Interesting I was told when I ordered that it is 10k for low mileage or 1 year or 20k and 1 year for higher mileage units. ?

I was told two years or 20k intervals (on 150ps diesel).

Service is variable. Believe you tell the dealer mileage you drive and they set it. Check by pressing the button near speedo. Mine is at 600+ days and 650k miles

Service is variable. Believe you tell the dealer mileage you drive and they set it. Check by pressing the button near speedo. Mine is at 600+ days and 650k miles

Six hundred and fifty thousand miles...WOW! that is impressive!

Just checked it this morning, figures above wrong, correct ones 65,535 days and 6,553,500 miles! If only if could be that.

^{My 190DSG has just has its first oil change at 9,500 miles and the service indicator also tells me that an inspection service is needed at 65.553,500 miles!!}

^{Did you ever resolve the issue Mike66?}

^{My 190DSG has just has its first oil change at 9,500 miles and the service indicator also tells me that an inspection service is needed at 65.553,500 miles!!}

^{Did you ever resolve the issue Mike66?}

Maybe that's a default value who I should be say ~~~~~~ like BMW and then after 100 or so miles it calculates the correct value based on driving style ??

When mine was new it showed similar data for next service, it sorted itself out after about 1500 miles, my 1st service will be due at approx 18,000 miles. Currently at 14,500 miles

Any one else spotted that these figures are very close to 2 to the power 32 = 65,536 with a x10 multiplier or multiples thereof? Looks like a memory issue with the on board 16-bit electronics perhaps?

Edited 14 September, 20169 yr by FelisBengalensis

I rather doubt that anyone else has spotted that!  How, on earth did you recognise that fact? I must say that I am very impressed!

I've had mine just 6 months, covered 5,990 miles and it's telling me oil service is due in 200 miles. P.I.T.A

I've had mine just 6 months, covered 5,990 miles and it's telling me oil service is due in 200 miles. P.I.T.A

 

That's pretty early even for variable servicing! Do you know why it's flagging up already, for example diesel in the oil (level will have risen), mostly cold town miles etc? Curious...

Due to my daily commute being 50 miles each way via the M74, I had my Octy Scout set to variable, hoping more towards the 18k mark.

Service warning light came on at approximately 13.5k. Not impressed. Had it changed to fixed that way I had a better idea when to book it in for future servicing.

That's pretty early even for variable servicing! Do you know why it's flagging up already, for example diesel in the oil (level will have risen), mostly cold town miles etc? Curious...

I do a fair mixture of town and motorway driving. I hadn't even thought about the service interval until it flagged 1,000 miles until oil service at the end of a 780 mile drive to France. It also flagged up low on coolant at the same time and it was between the marks. 250cc of water later and it reset! I'm in hospital at the moment but will check the oil when I'm out and report back. Thanks. JB

Currently on 9k miles, oil still due in another 10k miles, but service still on default, so no idea yet when that will become due. Previous Audis worked out oil and service after approx 1k miles. I think someone else said on another thread that service became due 1.5 to 2k before it was due, so expecting it might come on at approx 16k miles.

That's pretty early even for variable servicing! Do you know why it's flagging up already, for example diesel in the oil (level will have risen), mostly cold town miles etc? Curious...

Been to my local Skoda garage today and they say it's been set wrong and just to ignore it and get it serviced after 10,000 miles or a year. Seems a little amateur to me but as long as the warranty is not void then I'll go with it

Been to my local Skoda garage today and they say it's been set wrong and just to ignore it and get it serviced after 10,000 miles or a year. Seems a little amateur to me but as long as the warranty is not void then I'll go with it

 

Hmm... Variable servicing uses the (crude) 'oil quality sensors', which duly alert you that the oil needs changing. The dealer's advice is to ignore it and get a few more thousand out of it? Your call but I think personally I'd be getting them to change it regardless, especially if you subject the vehicle to 'severe service' - lots of cold starts / local journeys / hard driving etc.

On 14/09/2016 at 20:19, FelisBengalensis said:

Any one else spotted that these figures are very close to 2 to the power 32 = 65,536 with a x10 multiplier or multiples thereof? Looks like a memory issue with the on board 16-bit electronics perhaps?

 

On 14/09/2016 at 20:44, azAZ9@ said:

I rather doubt that anyone else has spotted that!  How, on earth did you recognise that fact? I must say that I am very impressed!

 

 

That’s easy, he knows IT from the earlier times when computer processors where 8 bit binary.

 

“2 to the power of” basically means base 2 numbering or a number system using only the number 0 and 1 or “binary” which is fundamentally how computers calculate using binary maths.

normal numbering known as base 10 uses 10 numbers from 0-9.

 

when you had 8bit processors in very early micro computers and PCs  (bit = 1 binary number) you had anything up to 11111111 or 8bits as the max number that could be used in 8 bit binary code.

 

convert that binary number to base 10 (normal numbers 0-9) and it equals 65,536 

 

If your old like me or played with early computers this number is familiar and was often expressed in Kilo bits or Kb instead.

 

As a Kb (kilo bit) = 1024 bits that number (65,536) was often said to be 64 Kb or shortened to 64K which was the maximum memory that could be accessed directly on the first 8 bit computers so it’s a number us old IT types all remember well 😁

 

cheers 😁😉