I've previously been with Honda but last Dec I switched to a new brand Karoq. I bought it via an online site and pretty much felt like direct from manufacturer order. I had no official dealership contact at all and I haven't touched base with them yet, even though on the MySkoda app I have added them as my service partner. With Honda it was yearly servicing and alternate major and minor services. What's the deal with Karoq servicing? I read there is yearly or variable, but how do you know which one you are on? Do you just wait to be told by the car it needs a service then book it in or will that invalidate any kind of warranty?

The car will give you about a month's warning before it needs its first service. So if your car is set for fixed term servicing you should be getting the message about now! If it is set for variable servicing them it can be up to 18 months or so from its delivery checks. 

 

But if you look in the MySkoda app, the Vehicle Status page will tell you the mileage range and time left before your Oli Change service. 

 

The Skoda Approved price for the first Oli Change service is £185.

 

Chris 

Thanks Chris, I looked in the app and it says 361 days or 14,500miles until Oil change/Service Inspection so it looks like I'm on variable servicing.

 

I just need to buy a 1ltr oil top up as I think it's used a small amount which, from what I can make out, is most likely to be the VW 508 00 0-20 LL IV.

We got our Karoq 1.5 SEL in September this year, it was a year old and had just under 10,000 on the clock.

Two months on and the mileage is 11,500, after a trip to Scotland.

The MySkoda app advises an oil change service in 9 moths time, so car is on variable servicing schedule.

 

What determines the fixed and variable schedules?

I’m away from the car so can’t check but ISTR mine is 25 months after it was registered or 18,000 miles (scheduled late Jan 22, presently at 10,500 miles).  Might get the service done in the next couple of weeks purely out of convenience.  

The car comes from the factory set to variable servicing, but can be set to fixed term servicing instead by the dealer at its PDI, or indeed any later service. Variable servicing is generally reckoned to suit drivers doing lots of long journeys on motorways, but I prefer fixed term servicing as I was only doing around 10,000 miles a year (pre-pandemic) and very much less now. When my Octavia was set to variable servicing many years ago, I found it irritating that oil changes etc were only required every 18 months or so, but other items like brake fluid changes and MOTs were still required at fixed intervals.

 

The variable servicing intervals are determined by software that measures the demands being placed on the engine, and hence the likely degradation of the oil. And lots of short journeys, where the engine cools down each time before being restarted are bad for engines! (It used to be said that cars used by doctors or practice nurses were bad news because they spent their life making such journeys!)

  

Chris 

Thanks for the explanation CJJE.