Morning,

After some advice I'm currently in 1.5 first Ed SEL 70 plate  and its asking me for inspection in 400 miles .Cars on two year lease and wondering what's my best best option for service.

Dealership were I got car from is £199 inc vat ,which I thin is pretty steep for car that hasn't done 6k yet.

Have looked at other options for interim service costs Halfords kiwi fit and other online providers for £125 and less .Why is Skoda so much more for interim service and am I better opting for non Skoda dealership option as they do update electronic service records.

Any advice much appreciated 

How many miles has the car done?

Did you ask the supplying dealer to change the car from Variable / Flexible service @ 24 months / 18,000-20,000 miles to Fixed Servicing @ 372 days / 9,400 miles or sooner?

 

When your car is leased then you better check the T&C's on Servicing.

The owners want the Service History on the VW Group system.

If the car does not need an Inspection Service / Oil Change at 1 year /9,400 miles then do not have anyone do it.

There are Independents with Licensed Equipment that can upload to the system and that get Recall or Service Campaign / TPI's for the vehicle.

 

Avoid Halfords or any other service Centres with a car you do  not own, or even one you do.

 

 

The Car is asking for an Inspection Service, that is because that is how it was set up at the PDI.  

Not required, as it is on Variable Flexible Servicing. 

 

The Dealerships need to sort this stuff out.  

 

To much Confusion going on.

Edited 28 July, 20214 yr by e-Roottoot

In GREEN was 2 years back on cars 3-10 years old on Fixed Servicing this was what a Interim Service cost @ Participating Dealers.

& a Oil & Filter Service was only £99.

 

But a new car 1 year old does not require an Interim Service unless the Owner Driver wants to have one and that leaves them at the whim of Dealerships for what is charged, 

or what they will actually do.

 

Charging more to do less seems to be very common.

Edited 28 July, 20214 yr by e-Roottoot

Cheers for replies lads, got call coming from dealership at 2pm.

The lease deal is for 2 years and I'm limited to 8k miles per year which I will not go over so 16k total , lease ends Oct 2023 so could I get away with one interim service for the duration of the lease as im not going to have the car over 24months and im not going to exceed the 20k major service requirment?

Want to set up service plan and not get bothered again , will I also need to get the dealership to get rid of the inspection request on the car or just ignore it?

Cheers Paul

I’m slightly confused, you have a 2 year lease ending October 2023, which means it started October 2021 (which is in the future).   Doesn’t tally with a car now needing servicing

 

If doing 16k over 2 years then just get the 12 month inspection done, and return it few days before next service due (no penalty for having a countdown displayed, but will be billed for service if saying due when returned)

 

Variable servicing is normally for those doing min 25 miles per day, which is not very easy to justify on a 8k miles per year deal, so dealer was correct to set to fixed for that mileage.

 

If only need to do the interim before returning don’t bother with a service plan, as you will be paying for second service without needing it.

my bad October 22 is end date 

Started lease Oct 20 

? Why set up a Service plan?  You are only needing 1 service.

58 minutes ago, PaulStevo said:

my bad October 22 is end date 

Started lease Oct 20 

Is the service countdown a mileage based number, or days

You have had car 9-10 months on 8k miles per year contract (which suggests mileage is about 6.5k) but as that is too low to be due a service, suggesting to me it had PDI was set to fixed then sat around for 10 weeks to October 2020

 

You can usually call up what car thinks in infotainment, select car, settings, scroll to service.  Will tell you both, what are they ?

 

I would be creating a stink with lease co if needs servicing after 6.5k miles or 9 months of lease as it wasn’t new when you got it.

 

Edited 28 July, 20214 yr by SurreyJohn

You should have been asked if you wanted the Variable / Flexible Service Interval from the factory changed to Fixed Servicing.

 

If you are near the Supplying Dealership i would have them clear that service indication, or if they say they can not then they can pay to do the Service for being chancers.

They should never be let off with trying to be at it.

To be honest I did ask about service options and wasn't really given any solid advice was told to wait for car to advise and it was dependant on my driving style? 

Didn't get phone call today of them so will pop in this week and se them personally. 

Advice much appreciated 

Help needed please regarding this post.

After numerous phone calls with dealer I've been told the car cannot be set for first service at 10k or a year as its already been set so new settings would start off at mileage when  it goes for service at. Now the plot thickens I spoke to service dept and was quoted 199 for first service from first bloke, which im not unhappy with as its only service im going to have to pay for.

However had call today after being told car would be complete in 2/3 hours its now full day due to software updates which take 4hrs plus, he also dropped me the price of £279 which I challenged and asked why ? Was told because car is being set to long life servicing that's price. I asked what it included as this price seems to be for major service (on car that's only 6k old 10 months) he said, oil screen wash and sump plug, as you can understand I refused to agree to pay for this at the price of £279.

Did verbally agree all this with salesman when I took lease out on car, feel proper hoodwinked with all this and have no confidence in future servicing . Did however get call back after the service sales man got gist of my anger  and agreed to only charge me £199. Are all servicing departments so greedy and un customer friendly. Safe to say I will be getting any future agreements down on paper .

Is the £199 also a reasonable price and is their any way I could get car changed service wise in non Skoda garage and maybe even get service done cheaper?

 

Pre Covid, used to be easy to find dealers who would do the job for less than published price if you rang them up.   You could treat the price list as a National maximum and would often be offered a price about 85% of the max.

 

The dealer will be paid for doing the software update, so try and get the price for your work as an add on to an existing job, rather than a stand alone service job.  Some of the service price includes driving it into the workshop, plugging in computer, and cleaning it, you don’t really need to be paying this if they already have it for other work.    

 

If the car has only done 6k miles and is only 10 months old, not going to do any harm by delaying service until towards end of 13th month

Not sure if I have option to delay service ,if cars been set to be inspected and I let it go past that does that not invalidate my lease agreement ?

All very messy and as I've said had mixed messages of various people in the dealership.

Getting a bit confused about the services options.which is the best one to go for?also what is mileage for service or dates between services.what I read it looks like fixed service is the best option .any advice please.