Apologies for being a bit late to this particular party.

My Fabia III 1.2TSI/110/DSG will be a year old in early September, when it will have circa 9200 miles on it. Service indicator is telling me that an oil change is due in 17 days and Dealer told me, at hand-over, that it was on "Fixed" servicing, (”they all are”), so everything tallies.

However, just had a look at the sticker that came with the car ... now in front of the "Service Schedule" booklet ... And that clearly shows service level as QL6, "Variable". Should I suspect that the service indicator gubbins has been reset, by the Dealer, from Variable to Fixed for, er, some reason?

Ours is on QL6 variable. Just passed 11000 miles & no service indicator yet, the Dealer says they usually do about 16000 on variable.

The fixed/variable debate has been going on many years, certainly as far back as when I had a 2010 Octavia.

 

How the car leaves the supplying dealer, I think, depends on their individual policy. When I bought my (new) Octavia in 2010, one dealer explained they put all their vehicles on fixed servicing interval. The dealer I eventually bought the car from always set the vehicles for variable servicing. I had four years very reliable motoring under this service regime, doing about 9000 miles a year.

 

For my recently acquired Fabia, I specifically asked for the car to be set to fixed interval as it is anticipated it will be used for short journeys, low annual mileage. I think it makes sense being used like this to have an annual oil change.

 

 

They all are if they are resetting to Fixed if they are doing it without asking the Buyer / Keeper / Driver, and they should not be doing that. Actually they are cheeky barstewards.

So it is for them to change if you do not want the car Serviced within every 372 days / 9,400 miles but on Variable Servicing.

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

(Ask who told you they are all the same to write that on headed Dealership note paper with their position in the Dealership, name & to sign it.)

 

DOH,

I never spotted the OP was made in August.

Edited 2 November, 20169 yr by Offski

I wouldn't want to do 16,000 miles without an oil change anyway. Far too long nowadays between them, even with that long life stuff. Changing your oil regularly with good quality is the single best thing you can do to future proof your car.