Anybody else having to top up regularly - not frequently, but regularly. The car is (currently 😉 ) dealer serviced and I'm convinced they put in as little as they know they can get away with, I don't think it's gone from one service to another without needing a top up, two or three hundred ml seems to do the job, probably talking just over a litre over 20,000

Do you not check the level weekly/monthly or at the very least when it is returned from a service?

 

I would not even start the engine after a dealer had serviced a vehicle without checking the fluid levels and for indications that they have replaced the parts they are billing for.

On 21/12/2023 at 16:32, gwm97e said:

Anybody else having to top up regularly - not frequently, but regularly. The car is (currently 😉 ) dealer serviced and I'm convinced they put in as little as they know they can get away with, I don't think it's gone from one service to another without needing a top up, two or three hundred ml seems to do the job, probably talking just over a litre over 20,000

I owned this engine within my last Octavia, it didn't use a drop within 18 months of ownership, although I'd only covered 10k. 

I litre of oil for 20k miles covered does not seem a lot to me though. 

Although mine ate spark plugs, went through two sets in 10k, due to rough cold running issues. 

Mine went from top of hatched area on the dipstick when brand new to halfway down after 6000 miles (one year). Its now had its one year service and back to the top - measured with the engine cold.