Now that servicing records have gone electronic it seems the servicing schedule on 1.2TSi engines is much harder to determine / less pre-defined. 

 

My new 2016 Yeti is on a variable servicing regime. My last Yeti (2010) came with a service book that clearly stipulated the servicing intervals and work for everything from spark plugs to air con (whether on fixed or variable servicing), but now I can't find the servicing schedule info anywhere. The car manual info is vague.

 

Am I missing something?

...also, my new Yeti has a timing belt (old one has a timing chain). Is there a servicing schedule on the timing belt?

I suspect it depends on the market eg Australia, EU etc

We have 1 year or 15,000km

Do you really want to go up to 18,000 miles or 2 years between Oil / Filter changes and Inspection Services?

You might want to get the wheels off and get some copper slip between the wheels and hub before this winter sets in.

Then wheels off again next year.

Variable or even fixed Skoda Main Dealer Servicing might never see them taken off the car.

(Salted / Gritted roads from October to March / April quite likely.)

 

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

http://volkswagen.co.uk/owners/servicing/what-we-check-and-why

 

You will find the Servicing Schedule / guidelines online.

If on Fixed servicing, basically.

Minor & Major.

Pollen Filter every 2 years. 

Brake Fluid @ 3 years then every 2.

Airfilter change when you need to because 40,000 miles has maybe nothing to do with location.

Fuel Filter is a Life Time, so change when needed.

Spark plugs are 40,000 mile so maybe change at 25,000 mile. (or at least checked)  Its all up to how you use your vehicle and where.

*VW Website says at Major Services.*

(Service Book shows Alarm Siren change @ 5 years.)

 

North / North East of Scotland, service annually. Self Maintain inbetween, go to the 'Victoria Garage in Maud' for a good Garage Workshop.

(Make it a day out maybe. See Dealers section on this forum.  Saves going to Arnold Clark or John Clark Group Workshops.)

Edited 25 September, 20169 yr by Offski

Mine came with a free service package and its 12 monthly.

No service book, just a folder to put the reports into.

Cheers Offski.

I switch wheels every 6 months between my winter set-up and summer set-up and copper-slip then.

Have used Victoria Garage before; they're good as are West End in Edinburgh.

Those links don't give much of a clue as to what a forthcoming service will entail, which, fair enough, seems related to the way the car has been driven etc and is based on monitors within the engine. Would be nice to know though, how big a service is due in advance so as not to be shocked by a big servicing bill!

I do not use them just know them.

Family and friends in the North East have been going there for years.   As good as anyone and i do recommend them highly.

http://victoriagarage-maud.co.uk

 

Email West End & ask them to email you the Service Schedule Guidelines.

What are you asking about, 5 years in the future or so. 

How many miles annually do you cover?

 

Euro 6 engines Service Guidelines will change as VW get to know what Warranty Issues and claims are over the next few years.

They only know what happens with 3 year old engines serviced in the UK after 3 years have passed type thing.

They change and increase mileages or periods of times as they learn what it is costing them.

 

Sometimes VW's get changed and later Skoda or Seat if the Engines were first in a VW Model.

Thats happened with Polos & then Fabia / Ibiza and other models.

Edited 25 September, 20169 yr by Offski

I do about 20k a year. Guess I am just interested in what level of servicing up to about 100k. I must be old school, we're the servicing work was all prescribed from day 1!

...also, my new Yeti has a timing belt (old one has a timing chain). Is there a servicing schedule on the timing belt?

For your engine [and some others, eg 1.4tsi ] VAG claim the redesigned timing belts are intended to last the life of the engine. The belts will probably be on the inspection regime only.  Fingers crossed, if this turns out to be true, owners have saved a significant amount of money and hastle.

Modern belts run in oil.

In any case, I do not trust a belt for more than 120kkm... If not the belt, then the tensioners or other belt related hardware... It is a small price to pay to change it in order to have peace in the head and wallet in a long run.

wait till the service/inspection comes on or look at service in maxidot then you will know. on oil change the car knows when needed miles and driving conditions

 

Edited 6 February, 20188 yr by skoda1982

If on Flexible / Variable it tells you when the Oil change is due.

On Fixed servicing it is counting down from 9,400 miles / 372 days from the last time set.

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

my 2016 1.2 TSi has just had the oil change message come on at 18,300 yet the inspection still had another 600 miles to go

so I decided yo get them both done together as was silly to pay for 2 separate garage visits.

also as there was only 4 months left on warranty, decided to simply visit my local village garage as they've a good reputation and I can simply walk home after leaving the car.

 

here's the maxdot after reset

oil change in 13 months or 9400 miles time

full service 24 months or 20,100 miles time

 

 

 

oh and the full service at my local cost me £148 incl oil and filter

they checked the air filter, gave it an air blast - replacement not necessary, same with pollen filter, they checked and cleaned the spark plugs - perfect, they also took off all wheels and checked pads and discs (copper slipped the pads), they also did a full visual inspection of all running gear, and stress tested the battery.

 

think my local skoda garage (30 miles and 60 mins away) wanted £375.

No 1 year and 1 week fixed service (372 days) or 9,400 miles, which ever comes first.

 

So basically they never knew how to set it.

& if they have put in Long Life Oil  VW504 00  5w 30 FS, it can go 18,5000 miles if they had set it on Variable / Flexible. 

But they have not set it to Flexible, just a mess up.

 

?

What oil shows on the invoice, is it 5w 30 FS LL3 ?

2018 a service required, and that will be Brake Fluid change if you pay, as well as the Service, 

& then you need a MOT,  so the Inspection bit makes no sense, 

You change the Oil Filter, Brake Fluid and MOT, and then set for 372 days / 9,400 miles to the next service.

 

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

 

What was the £375 Service going to get you, Major Service and A/C Service and something else.

This is supposedly Participating dealers, cars 3-10 years old, etc, but it can be cheaper than this.

http://skoda.co.uk/finance-and-offers/service-and-maintenance/simply-fixed 

Edited 21 March, 20188 yr by AwaoffSki

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On 3/21/2018 at 17:28, AwaoffSki said:

So basically they never knew how to set it.

who - skoda UK ?

you simply reset the service after completed and it sets itself automatically to the next requirement (as shown in the image above)

 

agree with you that it makes no sense - the skoda service setup and lack of service book,

 

I'll be sticking with a 12 month / 12000 mile full service just like the old days, but not changing brake fluid, plugs etc until needed, not changing stuff just to keep rip-off companies in business.

I nearly got caught out with servicing, my 1.2 yeti is leased, my contract is 8k miles per annum but after only 10 months I had done 9k miles and the service light came on, my lease is 2 years and when I called into my supplying dealer they told me the system said the vehicle was on flexible servicing but set up as fixed on the vehicle, had I not had this changed I would of been looking at 2 services in 18 months, so have now switched to flexible and first service due at 18k miles / 2 years, looking at current mileage service should be around October and vehicle goes back in January. 

Did someone at a Dealership just reset it without servicing.?

 

The Supplying Dealership that wrongly put it on Fixed Servicing should have done a free fixed service so that Full Main Dealer Servicing is correctly 

on the Service Records. And the service done.

Just changing the service indicator should not be the easy / cheap get out for them.

On 22/03/2018 at 17:54, Halford said:

 

 

I'll be sticking with a 12 month / 12000 mile full service just like the old days, but not changing brake fluid, plugs etc until needed, not changing stuff just to keep rip-off companies in business.

 

Sorry, not convinced re brake fluid & plugs

 

Re Plugs - tsi engines are quite hard on them

 

Re Brake fluid - how do you know when it's needed?  Over the years I've seen some terrible brake fluid come out of braking systems and have seen brake pipe failure after rusting from within, control valve failures (internal rust) , slave cylinder failure. In more modern systems mositure can cause havoc with an ABS unit.

After you've drained a few and seen milky or dark or rusty fluid emerge(it's hygroscopic)  - considering it's a life critical system - I always have my brake fluid changed as per the service intervals, although I let others do it now.  

 

 

Brake Fluid.

As many do dependent on Environment, or use like Track, or what ever you test the H20 content. 

Maybe before 3 years.

Test Kits, or £30-£300 Brake fluid testers.   Commonly used, because brake fluids might not be containing much water.

Check each Spring even, or at every service. 

Yes local independent garage checked my wifes Fabia brake fluid and it was fine at 3 and 4 years old. Decided to just get it changed at 5 years without further tests, but may have still been ok. Relatively low use car though at about 4 to 5k a year.

Low use ones are the ones that really should be checked annually.  Those that drive spirited / sportingly and might boil the fluid as well.

Skoda had them first at 2 years then every 2 years for changes until a few years ago, so biannual changes until they find few failings / warranty claims, 

and then a service schedule to suit Fleet / Lease & out of manufacturers warranty.

1 hour ago, AwaoffSki said:

Brake Fluid.

As many do dependent on Environment, or use like Track, or what ever you test the H20 content. 

Maybe before 3 years.

Test Kits, or £30-£300 Brake fluid testers.   Commonly used, because brake fluids might not be containing much water.

Check each Spring even, or at every service. 

 

Brake testers important (it's checked after an accident following breath test and tyre condition evaluation) - but they don't detect the state of the fluid further down the system. It's possible to refresh the fluid in the master cylinder reservoir (replacing one wheel cylinder, calliper, pipe, clutch slave or master) but keep old fluid elsewhere in the system.

 

The worst I ever saw was a Passat where the brake fluid would have been 7 years old and never refreshed at the rear due to a suspension level/brake valve (before ABS days!). The stuff that came out looked like milk of magnesia, had to strip down the rear calipers to check their condition.

 

I bark on about brakes - but when you know of someone dying because of this many years ago it does rather focus the mind. Saying that a few years ago with single circuit brakes if you had a failure of any sort you were in serious trouble.

 

Another thing I keep an eye on is brake pipes(metal or rubber) - I had a metal one burst because of external rust in the early eighties. Fortunately no harm done except for some underwear issues!  After this I rather revised my service schedules  / techniques. I was impressed when I visited a local garage to check on a car for someone else and saw them greasing metal brake pipes as part of their service. They now service my cars once outside the main dealer system.

Edited 2 April, 20188 yr by bigjohn

7 hours ago, AwaoffSki said:

Did someone at a Dealership just reset it without servicing.?

 

The Supplying Dealership that wrongly put it on Fixed Servicing should have done a free fixed service so that Full Main Dealer Servicing is correctly 

on the Service Records. And the service done.

Just changing the service indicator should not be the easy / cheap get out for them.

I took it in at 9k miles and said to the supplying dealer it's a joke that on a modern vehicle with a 1.2 engine I could be looking at services every ten months with my mileage and they agreed, so checked the system to find that the vehicle was listed as variable servicing and that fixed had been incorrectly set, they said most lease vehicles are on variable servicing so could not understand why fixed had been programmed at the pdi. They reset the indicator there and then, when I got it back it said 18k miles or 300 odd days to next service. I took the guy's name and date that they reset it to cover my ar**. However I have been thinking what oil is in the vehicle, if they have messed up on the servicing I guess it could be standard non long life oil, anyone know the oil vehicles are normally supplied with? The dealer did not questions or check this.

Edited 2 April, 20188 yr by jonnyboy78

Really they were surprised.   Is that because they never do that, never ask the customer what is wanted, while commonly changing the Flexible Servicing to fixed.

I think someone there is a fibber.