Hi. I suspect this might have been asked before! I have a 2017 L&K 220 petrol; it's on 45k miles and is asking for an oil service.  It was last serviced at 37.5k 6 months ago. I thought these have 12 month, 12k service intervals? Thanks.

Service intervals up from MY 2017 to MY 2020

 

These have the correct time and distance in Km values

 

 

Do you think someone reset the inspection and not the oil service last time?

 

If not it came up with an inspection at 37.5k miles and you did an oil change?

Thanks. I'm running it on compliant petrol so I think then it should need a service every 12 months or 18k miles with nothing in between. I looked at the car's computer and it says it needs an Inspection in just over 10k miles, which fits, so I am confused why it wants an oil change now.

 

You may be right about what was reset and what was not. I'll check with the dealer. Thing is that I have one service left on my service plan and I don't want the dealer to claim a simple oil change uses the remaining credit! 

11 hours ago, Qmc10 said:

Hi. I suspect this might have been asked before! I have a 2017 L&K 220 petrol; it's on 45k miles and is asking for an oil service.  It was last serviced at 37.5k 6 months ago. I thought these have 12 month, 12k service intervals? Thanks.

Fixed oil change interval is one year or 15,000km which is about 9300 miles. So if your mileage figures above are accurate, it does seem to be asking for it a bit soon. When you say "It was last serviced at 37.5k miles" did that include an oil change?

If you do high mileage you could switch to variable servicing which is 2 years and I think 30,000 km (18k miles) maximum (reduced according to the type of driving) provided they put in extra long life oil

Edited 13 September, 20223 yr by nicknorman

4 minutes ago, Qmc10 said:

Thanks. I'm running it on compliant petrol so I think then it should need a service every 12 months or 18k miles with nothing in between. I looked at the car's computer and it says it needs an Inspection in just over 10k miles, which fits, so I am confused why it wants an oil change now.

 

You may be right about what was reset and what was not. I'll check with the dealer. Thing is that I have one service left on my service plan and I don't want the dealer to claim a simple oil change uses the remaining credit! 

If you was on flexible service PR Code QI6, then maybe they swapped you to fixed without asking (happens a lot it seems)

Either that or the person at the controls reset the service to wrong values?

 

You should be able to get a printout of your PR Codes, and if lucky your full car service history.

Also check any receipts you may have had since last time, see what they put on the paperwork.

I do about 10-12k miles p/a. I've looked at the invoice for the last service and it did include an oil change. I assume I will need to ask the dealer for the PR codes? Apologies for the probably daft questions but I have never owned such a complicated car before!

1 minute ago, Qmc10 said:

I do about 10-12k miles p/a. I've looked at the invoice for the last service and it did include an oil change. I assume I will need to ask the dealer for the PR codes? Apologies for the probably daft questions but I have never owned such a complicated car before!

Dealer can normally supply you with the PR Codes.

 

Daft question is you car telling you to change the oil now, or in xxxx miles?

They should give you warnings each time you start up to service and you can probably get information from dash or infotainment screen sometimes.

3 minutes ago, varooom said:

Dealer can normally supply you with the PR Codes.

 

Daft question is you car telling you to change the oil now, or in xxxx miles?

They should give you warnings each time you start up to service and you can probably get information from dash or infotainment screen sometimes.

OK, I've looked again at the info screen. It is asking for an oil change in just over 1000 miles or 150 days and inspection in 10000 miles or over 500 days. It must be set to oil change at 9000/12 months and inspection at 18000/24 months?

 

@Qmc10  Your car left the factory with Long Life Oil and on a Variable Service Regime.    They all did for the UK other than Citigo,  and now PHEV's.

24 months / 18,000-20,000 miles. What ever comes first.

 

At the PDI it was maybe changed to Fixed Servicing.

9,400 miles / 372 days.

 

Or that happened at a service since the PDI.    All along the Service Indicator might have had 2 messages.   Oil Service, & Inspection Service and one might have been annual and the other bi-annual.

 

It is not uncommon for those doing a service to change a customers cars service regime because they can or because they are useless and just mess things up. 

Thanks again @roottoot I guessed you would post your usual good information.

 

It seems most likely to have been swapped to fixed service for oil change at some point at 15,000km / 1 year.

When you do get your PR Codes, look for QI6 as mentioned, it will be the longlife servicing.

 

This has happened to a lot of Briskodians, getting swapped to a fixed service 😤

Thanks everyone. I bought it in March 2021 as an Approved Used car from Skoda, allegedly serviced prior to delivery. The one earlier this year was the first time I had it done and from memory the car was asking for one. I  suppose they could have changed it. Although the local dealer here found and corrected a few things that the supplying dealer had missed off the previous service..... 😏

There is not much to the servicing for them to miss.

There is stuff that needs paying for that is not in Services, which are Oil Services & Inspections.

 

Pollen filter each 2 years or sooner. Spark Plugs at 40,000 miles, brake fluid @ 3 years then each 2. 

Air filter at least looked at and checked.  

 

Bottom chart as it was until 2020.

They missed pollen filter and spark plugs.... not sure how! The local dealer here did the work and charged it back to Skoda. I've just looked at the invoice for the last service and it says 'long life oil'

Not many will change spark plugs on a Sales Car @ 40,000 miles and not at a Service unless the customer gets told or asks.

(often they say, special plugs, very expensive, last 60,000 miles or 65,000 miles or whatever the service desk heard who taught them saying.)

 

Not all Skoda Approved Used cars are Serviced before sale or have been serviced to Manufacturers Recommendations, Guidelines or recently they use Schedule as a term, but they never did for the past decades.

 

As to Long Life Oil, that is because not many of them have anything but Long Life oil. ( even if you asked for VW502 00 5w 40 FS for fixed servicing as i use with a TSI..)  Long lived engines IMO.

 

So for you they have VW 504 00 / 507 00, for fixed or variable.  5w 30 FS III or 0w 30 FSIII.  That's as recommendations by VW. 

 

New cars / engines it is VW508 00 / 509 00 that is the spec and used fixed or variable. so 0w 20 FS IV.   

 

 

 

Not VW508 00 for a 2017 TSI as not back compatible.

Edited 13 September, 20223 yr by roottoot

On the subject of oil changes, mine (variable) flashed up tonight advising I have 1100 miles to my oil change/service.

 

Dealer had left me a voicemail by the time I got to looking to book me in.

 

What I'm unsure of is, if (as a hypothetical example) I somehow got this done tomorrow is this 1100 remaining mileage added to the next lot (appreciating it is variable, so not an exact mileage between services) or would I be diddling myself out of the remaining 1100 miles and servicing a car that doesn't actually need servicing for a further 1100 miles?

4 minutes ago, Gax said:

On the subject of oil changes, mine (variable) flashed up tonight advising I have 1100 miles to my oil change/service.

 

Dealer had left me a voicemail by the time I got to looking to book me in.

 

What I'm unsure of is, if (as a hypothetical example) I somehow got this done tomorrow is this 1100 remaining mileage added to the next lot (appreciating it is variable, so not an exact mileage between services) or would I be diddling myself out of the remaining 1100 miles and servicing a car that doesn't actually need servicing for a further 1100 miles?

Change now is lost mileage, it'll be reset to max 30,000km or such.

 

Keep on driving!

Edited 13 September, 20223 yr by varooom

34 minutes ago, varooom said:

Change now is lost mileage, it'll be reset to max 30,000km or such.

 

Keep on driving!

 

Nice one, thanks.