My 3rd yearly service and MOT is booked in with an independent garage next week i seem to remember the break fluid is due to be changed and I did not get the A/c serviced last year it seems to be running OK but i don't want to tempt providence. I have used Warranty direct in the past and they refunded the cost of items covered on my last car but with the new car nearly out of warranty (24th April) i got a quote to cover most things for £350 cant decide if its worth it. Have a little car account with about 1k in it that i put 130 a month in to cover servicing plus any thing else.  Any thoughts about keeping fingers crossed or taking out the insurance Joe

Service Schedule / Guideline is Brake Fluid first change at 3 years then each 2nd year.

Is the £350 with the Skoda Warranty.

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1 hour ago, AwaoffSki said:

Service Schedule / Guideline is Brake Fluid first change at 3 years then each 2nd year.

Is the £350 with the Skoda Warranty.

Extended Warranty from ŠKODA Insurance – putting ŠKODA into your insurance..mhtml

Warranty Direct quote was £350 for one year. I have looked at Skodas extended warranty and was quoted £174 its an insurance based policy not an extended manufacturers warranty and has quite a lot of exclusions.

https://insurewithskoda.co.uk/library/pdf/31848_SKODA_Extended_Warranty_Policy_Jan2018_NAV_v3.pdf  is the policy document if anyone wants to look at it there must be quite a few cars bought in 2015 coming out of manufacturers warranty this year  Joe 

Taking the regular proper servicing items out of the equation as AwayoffSki has covered that, - AC, now in reality there is very little that gets "serviced" in a car AC system other than maybe spraying a sanitiser spray through the cabin air system to kill off any bugs.  If an AC system is left to its own devices, the first thing that should happen is that the refrigerant which is R134A will slowly escape across any plastics in the system like O-ring seals and flexible pipes, eventually you will notice the chiller will not cool the air down far enough for you, at this point the system is not suffering any damage from this small loss of R134A, so continuing to use it until you can get the system checked and recharged is okay.  If the system ruptures due to damage from a stone being thrown up etc, it stop working due to the loss of the charge of R134A, at this point urgent repair is needed to avoid too much moisture and nasties getting into the unpressurised system through any holes - but at this point, annual servicing would not have stopped that happening. Always try to get either a mobile car AC person to come to you to fix it or use a proper workshop based car AC fixer.

What dealers want to get you to let them do is, every two years, recover all the R134A and weigh it, evacuate the system which will let them work out if it is still leak tight, and back fill that system with the correct weight of R134A and maybe a spot of oil to make up for any oil lost during this process.

 

Edit:- any other work like cleaning the condenser of accumulated road debris would come at extra cost if it was causing the system to under perform.

Edited 5 April, 20188 yr by rum4mo