Unsure whether this  question has been posted /answered elsewhere?

 

Needing an oil change and not wanting to drive miles to the Skoda dealer to get it done under the service plan, I arranged for a local garage to do the work, reliable business used them before, they got Skoda filter in especially; no issues there.  Night before I'd charged the battery to 100% and when I took the car in for service the cockpit reading  on arrival was about 95%. When i collected the car later I found the charge was about 25%. Whenever I drive the car I always select hybrid mode. I'm guessing that when the garage had the engine running the mode had 'defaulted' to electric. 

 

There doesn't seem to be any way to select a petrol mode only. So am I right in thinking that the only way is to set a high reserve minimum percentage so that the engine switches to petrol as soon as the battery is at minimum?  

 

 

Edited 20 February, 20224 yr by exaudi

Always ask them to charge the car after servicing - usually they are more than happy to plug you in

 

 

@exaudi  Just out of interest but how many miles did your car do from dropping off to collect, so while they did a road test?

Does it shows as having had a road test.

(Obviously they should be running the engine as well as EV mode on a road test, and getting the engine / oil up to temperature.)

What quantity of oil does it show as required and does it show they used 0w 20 FS IV or did they go with 0w 30 FS III ?

 

Did you dip the oil cold when collecting the car and then once home with the oil at normal operating temp, and again since cold? 

Edited 20 February, 20224 yr by roottoot

5 hours ago, roottoot said:

@exaudi  Just out of interest but how many miles did your car do from dropping off to collect, so while they did a road test?

 

Does it shows as having had a road test.

(Obviously they should be running the engine as well as EV mode on a road test, and getting the engine / oil up to temperature.)

What quantity of oil does it show as required and does it show they used 0w 20 FS IV or did they go with 0w 30 FS III ?

 

Did you dip the oil cold when collecting the car and then once home with the oil at normal operating temp, and again since cold? 

Distance to the garage, approximately quarter of a mile.

I do not know if they did a road test. I didn't ask and didn't check on the car.

I do not know what quantity of oil, but they did say it didn't need the whole of the can and i coiuld have what was left if I wanted it. Oil I think  was synthetic, but do not know for sure.

"Did you dip the oil cold when collecting the car and then once home with the oil at normal operating temp, and again since cold?" - No

 

I trust this particular garage, good local reputation, it is also an MOT test facility. 

 

 

 

Edited 20 February, 20224 yr by exaudi

Best dip it cold tomorrow so that you do know there is enough oil, and check that again at operating temp. 

No point thinking it has used oil if a Low Oil Warning light or message comes on if you do not know if there was enough in to start with.

 

Then you do not want it overfilled as is also common.  

 

PS

The Oils are all 'Synthetic' for modern VW Group engines. 

The only difference is if Skoda / VW are recommending VW 508 00 so 0w 20 FS IV for your 1.4 TSI / Hybrids which are getting fixed servicing 

or if VW504 00 is still acceptable for them. 

This is the Specs of oil which is as important as using a 'Skoda filter' as per your OP.

Edited 20 February, 20224 yr by roottoot

18 hours ago, roottoot said:

Best dip it cold tomorrow so that you do know there is enough oil, and check that again at operating temp. 

No point thinking it has used oil if a Low Oil Warning light or message comes on if you do not know if there was enough in to start with.

 

Then you do not want it overfilled as is also common.  

 

PS

The Oils are all 'Synthetic' for modern VW Group engines. 

The only difference is if Skoda / VW are recommending VW 508 00 so 0w 20 FS IV for your 1.4 TSI / Hybrids which are getting fixed servicing 

or if VW504 00 is still acceptable for them. 

This is the Specs of oil which is as important as using a 'Skoda filter' as per your OP.

The reason i took car to garage is that the oil service in x days display came on. 

My op wasn't about how to check whether an oil top up was needed. but how to prevent the battery charge from being used by the garage. The suggest to ask the garage, it'll, be a dealership soon, to recharge I have noted. Another possibility, apart from setting the battery reserve at higher percentage, is for me not to charge the battery before going to the garage. 

@exaudiYour OP mentioned they got a Skoda Filter,

so i was curious what oil they decided to use.   Also the level that they filled to but if not important then not worth talking about.

 

The car must have been out and about to use the charge in the battery and not just sitting turned on at the garage.  

On 21/02/2022 at 13:35, exaudi said:

The reason i took car to garage is that the oil service in x days display came on. 

My op wasn't about how to check whether an oil top up was needed. but how to prevent the battery charge from being used by the garage. The suggest to ask the garage, it'll, be a dealership soon, to recharge I have noted. Another possibility, apart from setting the battery reserve at higher percentage, is for me not to charge the battery before going to the garage. 

Changing battery reserve will make no difference, from starting if not changed to hybrid mode the car will drive on battery until it runs out. Battery reserve is used for charging if it's set to 30%, when you plug in it will charge to 30% immediately ignoring any timers etc.