I see that Skoda are running an advertisement saying they offer free servicing on new Octavias (excluding vRS) registered between June and September. Funny, my new Octavia was registered on 5th June and the best the dealer offered me was a 3 year servicing deal for

Sure it wan't ordered between those dates?

Wish someone would give me 3 years free servicing, hell I'd pay £330 for 3years servicing - then again I do do 50-60k miles per year so that'd be a lot of services

"Free servicing offer valid for 3 years or 30,000 miles, whichever comes sooner, and applies to all retail sales of new Octavia (A5) models registered between 1st June ad 30th September 2006, excluding vRS models."

I called Skoda this morning and it sounds like they are going to honour the offer. Only possible downside is that I will have to go on to the fixed service schedule. However, in spite of my query, they insisted that I could be switched back to the variable service schedule after the three years. I had the impression that once you moved to fixed service the car remaimed on fixed service for the rest of its life.

Nope, you can flit between the two.

Got a letter from Skoda to say I was entitled to 3 years free service and as I have bought from them i could be entitled to a £500.00 cashback,if I registered a Octy between 1st June and end of September

Can someone explain the fixed versus variable service interval?

Is this just having the interval at a fixed mileage/date rather than based on usage?

Isnt the Octy usually a 2 year service interval anyway?

Cheers

Paul

There's an explanation of best choices on the VW site.

*Very* loosely...

Lots of miles, lots of motorway, go variable

Lots of stop-start driving, lots of cold starts, go fixed.

Variable is *up to* 20K or 2 years (whichever is sooner)

Fixed is 10K miles or 1 year (whichever is sooner)

I hope you can change! As I'll definately get fixed for the 3 free years, then swap to variable!

Cheers

You can change to and fro

The VeeDub advice...

http://www.vw.co.uk/services/servicing/servicing_your_vw