This question was asked over a year ago ..

.. and received no answer. 

 

I recently bought a 2020 Octavia MkIII Scout 4x4 2.0TDI (my first new car purchase in twenty years), and I too am surprised to find that there doesn't seem to be a published official maintenance schedule for the vehicle. Just "trust the car computer" (or, wait for any idiot light to light up). I'm a little uncomfortable with that.

 

Is there truly no more-or-less set maintenance schedule for these cars? .. not even for the Really Big Stuff(TM) like the timing belt?

Are the cars' built-in sensors and programs really that reliable (especially for those of us who plan to keep cars for ten and more years)?

 

thanks,

Jay

Catalunya, Spain

 

First service can be checked going to Settings on the car and scroll down to service which in your case is 2 years from registration or 30,000km whichever arrives first.

Thanks @shyVRS245, I had seen that. I'm really looking for the (I'm dating myself here ...) late 1980s-style "Oil every X thousand miles, timing belt at Y tens of thousands of miles, clean/lube/check suspension every Z thousand miles, ..." - the whole list.

I'm flatly amazed that Skoda's expectation for this car is "oil once every 10k or 20k", "timing belt (I see in the overall tech specs of the vehicle) at 112K miles", and I suppose everything depending on the technician at the shop that does the routine 1 or 2 year checks to know everything and miss nothing?? I have a great deal of trouble having that much faith.

 

For example our Karoq was 3 years old last month and sailed through the annual safety check (M.O.T.) and has just had new front/rear wiper blades fitted for £49 and just one free Skoda service at 18,700 miles (30,000km) and although Skoda say the brake fluid should be changed at 3 years I'm waiting another 7 months which is when the onboard computer says is when the 2nd free service is due (August/September 2021) and the brake fluid change will get done then. The car has now done 29,200 miles and drives superbly. Original brake discs and pads also. Second set of tyres been on since 27,000 miles (original ones rotated at 15,000 miles).