2 hours ago, ahenners said:

 

Yes they can if you ask the dealer to swap it. Like you said though, it's in your interest to service it as little as possible.

 

Mine is on fixed despite me hitting the mileage in about 8/9 months, but privately owned and £99 per oil change so it's fine by me.

I must admit as my car ages the mechanically sympathetic person in me wants to set it to fixed and have it done every 9400 miles, but it would need 3/4 oil changes every year! It also burns about half a litre every 10k or so. It’s been on variable it’s whole life so for now at least it can stay there. I’ve never had a car that burns oil before, I ligit panicked when the level started to drop but then I remembered it’s a VAG car and burning oil is kinda their thing. It’s all well in spec

20 minutes ago, SashaGrace said:

I must admit as my car ages the mechanically sympathetic person in me wants to set it to fixed and have it done every 9400 miles, but it would need 3/4 oil changes every year! It also burns about half a litre every 10k or so. It’s been on variable it’s whole life so for now at least it can stay there. I’ve never had a car that burns oil before, I ligit panicked when the level started to drop but then I remembered it’s a VAG car and burning oil is kinda their thing. It’s all well in spec

My slightly modified 336bhp VAG petrol turbo gets through 1 litre per 10,000 miles so not unreasonable, not sure whether it's for breakfast, lunch or dinner when it consumes it though!

1 hour ago, SashaGrace said:

I must admit as my car ages the mechanically sympathetic person in me wants to set it to fixed and have it done every 9400 miles, but it would need 3/4 oil changes every year! It also burns about half a litre every 10k or so. It’s been on variable it’s whole life so for now at least it can stay there. I’ve never had a car that burns oil before, I ligit panicked when the level started to drop but then I remembered it’s a VAG car and burning oil is kinda their thing. It’s all well in spec

 

Yep I know what you mean there... My 59 plate VRS needed top ups at least monthly by the time it reached 80k. Was the perfect excuse to upgrade to a MK3! 

 

MK3 approaching 50k but doesn't seem to be using any so far. *Touch wood*

 

16 hours ago, D 1029 said:

I wish I nearly didnt ask.

 

It's always the same whenever 'servicing' is mentioned. Don't worry, the thread usually stops by the time it becomes 20 pages long

 

Just as with swearing, the moderators should put a ban on the word 'service'.

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4 hours ago, Scotty72 said:

Thanks for confirming, just a little surprised given my car why it would be left on variable that's all. I'm only allowed 8k miles per year.

 

All VW group products set to variable / longlife at factory. In truth the dealer should have explained the different service regimes when you placed the order then service schedule accordingly as part of the pre-delivery inspection. But that would make life too simple.

 

My SEAT dealer did things the other way round. They changed the car at PDI from longlife to fixed without asking me. When I realised what happened and why they'd made the change without asking, they said longlife is only for leased cars.    When I challenged this, they then tried backing this up by saying a SEAT rep had visited them the previous month who confirmed it!     It really doesn't help when the dealers themselves haven't a clue or in the case of that particular dealership, tell porkies.  

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7 hours ago, Scot5 said:

 

All VW group products set to variable / longlife at factory. In truth the dealer should have explained the different service regimes when you placed the order then service schedule accordingly as part of the pre-delivery inspection. But that would make life too simple.

 

My SEAT dealer did things the other way round. They changed the car at PDI from longlife to fixed without asking me. When I realised what happened and why they'd made the change without asking, they said longlife is only for leased cars.    When I challenged this, they then tried backing this up by saying a SEAT rep had visited them the previous month who confirmed it!     It really doesn't help when the dealers themselves haven't a clue or in the case of that particular dealership, tell porkies.  

I spoke to the pdi-ing dealer to do the vwfs paperwork and to arrange delivery that was it. All arranged through a broker. Ok so mine is set correctly for lease then? lol

4 minutes ago, Scotty72 said:

 Ok so mine is set correctly for lease then? lol

 

There is no "correct" setting for a lease. There's the default; variable, or the alternative upon request; fixed. Variable is the sensible option for a lease to reduce servicing costs over the lease period. If you had it on fixed this would not be incorrect, you'd just need 2 services instead of 1 before handing back.

I was half joking but realise variable is by far the best setting for me. I'll wait until the car tells me then? 

What I don't get is I had variable servicing on my e36 3 series 20 years ago so this is nothing new to me. Except the BMW system made it simple, it told you when it needed servicing but back then I was doing tons of commuting miles so maybe it does work better when you use the car more.

11 hours ago, shyVRS245 said:

My slightly modified 336bhp VAG petrol turbo gets through 1 litre per 10,000 miles so not unreasonable, not sure whether it's for breakfast, lunch or dinner when it consumes it though!

My pre 230 used to go through a litre or so every 10k but has gradually reduced as everything had bedded in nicely. Between 30 and 40k it hardly moved on the dip stick. Proper running inn helps a lot with this. Thrashed from new often results in heavier oil consumption and earlier failure.  

Mine is just on 10k miles/9 months old and the Oil Service approaching warning has been on for a while. I checked the level last night as per Mr @Offski says and the level was at the bottom of the Hatched area.

Spoke to BSM today and they can get me in for the Oil change service tomorrow for £114 all in.