Good afternoon, I'm hoping someone may be able to offer some advice regarding my service interval indicator. My cars a 2019 Mk3 Octavia TDi on the long life service schedule and it went into the dealers for it's first oil change / inspection service yesterday at 18700 miles. When i got the car back, i checked the service indicator which said the next oil change was due in 18700 miles and 730 days but the inspection one says 18700 miles or 365 days. I thought this was a mistake on behalf of the dealer and rather than drive 17 miles back there i had a go at resetting the indicator myself using the reset trip button technique. It was only after this i realised that this resets the service indicator onto the fixed interval services and it now shows the oil change is due in 9400 miles and 365 days and the inspection one in 18700 miles and 365 days! 
My question is my brother in law has VCDS so I'm hoping that i can put the car back onto the long life schedule without having to take it back to the dealers, does anyone know how this is done? I have experience of using Vag-Com on an old Passat I used to own but i'm struggling to find any guides that relate to this vehicle. Thanks. 

Hi

 

@langers2k might be able to add some further assistance on this, and i will be honest I have never done a reset myself with VCDS on a variable serviced car. 

 

From my understanding of your issue,  you need to change the ESI adaption channel "Oil quality" adaption back to "Good Oil Quality" to get variable oil distance back but there may also be other adaptions that need to be changed to get the days right too. 

 

Control Module 17 will be "Instruments" open and look for Adaptions and put in the search box Oil, click on the drop down and it should find the channel in question. 

 

Attached you will find my Admap of my 2016 TDI before I had it put on fixed interval oil changes. If you open this in excel and look at line 27 you will see ESI oil Quality and also listed will be miles to next service etc yours may be different so I attach as an example.  

 

If you want to get this file yourself from VCDS, run from VCDS then open, Applications> Controller MAPS, tick "Adaptions" and put 17 where it says Single Controller Address,  it will output the below file into the VCDS LOGS folder on your laptop.  

 

Hope this is of some use to you, 

 

Regards

 

 

 

 

adpmap-17-5E0-920-951-B_-20200528-1725.csv

Edited 1 July, 20214 yr by paulski

Yeah, I think that's the basics, it's a while since I've needed to tweak the service/oil mileages 

 

You need to change the oil quality and then go through the SRI/FIX/ESI channels and set them to what you need.

 

Definitely take a 17 adpmap before you start just so you know where you started from...

One thing i forgot to add,

 

In the Controller Map application, you need to tick "adaptions" box before asking it to create the Admap. This outputs all the adaptions into the CSV file. 

 

As @langers2k mentions the Admap is a backup file of any changes you make to Adaptions.  Do one before you make the changes. 

 

Thanks very much for your replies. Unfortunately when we tried to use my brother in law's lead and connect to the controller, it comes up with an error saying the lead is not compatible with the vehicle (it's a genuine lead and previously worked fine with his 2016 Ibiza). I've spoken to the dealer who claim that how they set the service indicator is correct; even though mine is on the long life schedule it now needs to be seen by them every year for a health check and to keep the warranty up to date but can still go for up to 2 years and 18700 miles for the oil change. 

2 minutes ago, PeteK20303 said:

even though mine is on the long life schedule it now needs to be seen by them every year for a health check and to keep the warranty up to date but can still go for up to 2 years and 18700 miles for the oil change. 

Bizarre, but it seems that's correct - it's a revenue earning opportunity for dealers!

3 minutes ago, PeteK20303 said:

Unfortunately when we tried to use my brother in law's lead and connect to the controller, it comes up with an error saying the lead is not compatible with the vehicle (it's a genuine lead and previously worked fine with his 2016 Ibiza).

What cable type is it? A 2019 Octavia need either a HEX-V2 or HEX-NET cable because VAG (Skoda) have changed so many of the modules in the car to use CAN bus messages that the older HEX-CAN type leads cannot handle (no more room for firmware updates) - hence the error message on your 2019 Octavia but the lead working fine on your BIL 2016 Ibiza.

I'm not sure what type of lead it is, sorry. I just know it was a genuine one and he paid around £200 at the time. 

I would normally get an oil change once a year or every 10000 miles, however this is a lease car so it is due to go back in August next year so I was hoping I would get away with just the one service as I average around 10k miles per year. 

Oh well, at least you know when the oil needs changing by 10k. 

 

It's stupid the ease with which the trip button can change the oil interval when it was set to variable. It should be locked out from altering that if on variable. 

 

If you want to pop down to Brighton I'll fix it for you to expand my vcds knowledge.

17 hours ago, PeteK20303 said:

I'm not sure what type of lead it is, sorry. I just know it was a genuine one and he paid around £200 at the time.

I'd bet it's a HEX-CAN - which isn't suitable for 2019 models onwards because of the many changes that VAG have made.