Hi guys,

 

Just a couple of general questions about Superb II servicing. My CR170 tdi has turned 4 years old, has covered 54k and is due a service.

 

My local Skoda dealership has fixed price servicing. My first question is; If I were to book in for a full/major service it states that gearbox oil is changed (where applicable). So does that mean that Skoda will change my DSG oil and filter as part of the service or do I need to pay the extra for that?

 

Second question is re the cambelt...I have read that it needs changed at 4 years or 120,000 miles. What do people recommend, my car is at 4 years, but no where near the mileage...Is it worthwhile me getting this done?

 

I'm all for correct and thorough car maintenance and normally wouldn't think twice about getting all this done, but right before Christmas I could do without a near £1k service bill.

 

I appreciate that it would be easier to contact the dealer for answers to these questions, but I won't really be able to do that until after the weekend due to work, so any advice on here first would be appreciated.

 

Cheers!

DSG6 wet clutch service is 40K, and is extra.

 

Cambelt is usually 4 years or 60K miles as far as I know...

 

But if it's 4 years, then time to change. No good when the belt has snapped.

If your Superb is 4 years old then the cambelt interval is 5 years.

 

Skoda UK recently extended the interval from 4 years to 5 years on all cars registered after September 2010.

Here is the Skoda fixed price servicing...

 

http://www.skoda.co.uk/owners/service-and-maintenance/simply-fixed

 

No mention of the gearbox oil being included. Is it an offer from your local dealer? All that is covered here is to 'replenish' the gearbox oil which I read as a top-up rather than a full replacement.

 

Make sure you ask the dealer what they will change as part of the service, if they aren't going to replace the air, pollen and fuel filters then don't pay for the major service (£269) as all they'll be doing is the £149 service.

Cheers for the advice guys. I realised after I posted that the gearbox oil was just a replenish.

It's booked in for Tuesday for major service with dsg oil and no filter change.

Going back in the start of the new year for the cambelt

Make sure they agree to replacing ALL the items listed on the major service before you hand over the keys;

 

Air filter

Fuel Filter

Pollen Filter

 

If they aren't doing the above then don't pay the £269 for a major service, the above items are the only extras over the £149 minor service and are "only replaced if required".

Hi 

I have a Superb 2011 1.8TFSI I was of the opinion that this engine (CDA) has a cam chain rather than a cam belt, am I wrong?

Yes - that is a chain drive engine.

See here...

 

http://www.briskoda.net/forums/topic/266114-18tsi-and-20tsi-engine-failures/

Note for those of us in the Antipodes, the 2010 Skoda Superb service manual states we can wait until 180,000kms to change our cambelts....

 

I know its risky, but I'm going to wait until 180,000kms to get mine done.

Spain has the same as the Southern Hemisphere, the reason they gave was temperature. Northern climes are cold and so the belt suffers from extremes of temperature and so has a reduced life.

180,000 km's is about 111,000 miles.

 

The cambelt interval on my 2011 CR140 diesel is 120,000 miles.

 

Where the UK (controversially) differs is the addition of the fixed time interval of 4 years (cars registered before September 2010) and 5 years (those registered after).

180,000 km's is about 111,000 miles.

 

The cambelt interval on my 2011 CR140 diesel is 120,000 miles.

 

Where the UK (controversially) differs is the addition of the fixed time interval of 4 years (cars registered before September 2010) and 5 years (those registered after).

Skoda told me 4 years and got a nice leaflet posted to me by the **** dealer I got it from on its 4th birthday. 

Going to phone SUK tomorrow

I've posted on this cambelt issue before, but might as well again! I bought my car when living in London (2 years old at that stage) and drove it there for another 2 years before moving back to Ireland. When we moved back to Ireland, the 4 years was just up on the car and, having been advised by Skoda UK that the cambelt would need to be changed at 4 years, off I trotted to my local Skoda dealer here in Ireland. They thought I was nuts when I came in (the car had less than 40,000 miles at that point) and said to come back when I'd done 180,000km. I was a bit taken aback, so I took myself off to another local dealer a couple of months later (and trust me, this dealer is reknowned for finding and charging stupid prices for everything it can think of - hence why I don't use them). Nope, they said, definitely doesn't need doing until 180,000km - that's Skoda Ireland's guideline. So, I kept driving the car until it reached 180,000km (May this year when the car was almost 8 years old) and had the cambelt changed.

 

Now, I know the plural of anecdote isn't data, and maybe there was a small chance that my car's cambelt could have failed. Maybe there is an excellent reason for Skoda UK insisting on 4 (or now 5) years. But, given that every other Skoda office in Europe seems to stick to 180,000km (at least from what people on here have posted), then it would seem that Skoda UK are the ones out of step on this. If cambelts were regularly  failing across Europe in year 5 or 6, I'm sure we'd hear about it. So the only reason I can possibly think of for changing the cambelt after 4 years is if you want some small possibility of financial help from Skoda UK should the new belt somehow fail after another 2 years or something.

 

I dunno, it honestly seems like a complete nonsense to me!

As I can't afford a new engine, I had my cambelt changed at 4 year and 90,000 miles.