Greetings,

 

Now I’ve tried looking this up but can’t find a definitive answer.

 

I’m planning to lease a new Scala for a couple of years…and about 20,000 miles. The lease has the option of maintenance (basically covering any standard service costs) for £200 (assumed to be inclusive of vat).

The question is is this worthwhile? Intuitively it would seem to be, with services being generally more that £200 but with the possibility of variable service intervals perhaps it’s not that simple.

 

It would be good to get any views on this.

 

Regards

Welcome.

 

If you have the car for 2 years, 20,000 miles then it only needs a service @ 24 months 18,000-20,000 miles.

Variable / Flexible servicing.

That service at a main dealership is over £200 now.  

Oil & Inspection Service & Pollen filter replaced.

 

**So worth while buying now.IMO, if only £200, which should be including VAT.**

 

If the car gets put on Fixed servicing, 12 months / 9,400 miles then that would be 2 services. 

The first being an Oil & Inspection service & the 2nd the same with a pollen filter change.

(Some might just do a Oil & Filter service and not rip off customers some take the £215 or more at 1 year old.)

 

Read the T&C,s is it one service at 2 years you are getting, no additional costs?

 

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The chart is Fixed Service Regime.

You do not need to have the car on a fixed service regime.

It leaves the factory on Variable / Flexible servicing and it would be at aPDI that it might get changed to Fixed Service Intervals.

 

Edited 11 July, 20232 yr by toot

The basic rule at lease return is car has to be serviced, and service indicator not showing as due now.
 

It is ok to be showing a countdown warning due in X miles or Y days (I think Skoda usually show countdown from about 700 miles or 30 days).

 

Therefore if you have it on variable, only do about 17,500 miles and hand it back few days short of 2 years, might not need to do any servicing whatsoever.  So if think that is a good possibility then don't waste money pre-paying for service might not do.

 

One other thing worth remembering is often good idea to swap the wheels front-back at around 12-13k miles.  Evens out the tyre wear and usually means won't have any cost of replacing 2 worn tyres.  Might not need it if only doing 17k miles, but definitely swap them if going to be say 25k miles.   Even if you pay fast fit centre few pounds to do it, lot cheaper than 2 new tyres.

 

Thanks for both of your replies…the handing back before the service may be an option too.