Hello all,

 

I am a hopefully soon to be owner of a nice MK3 VRs, but have hit a bit of a snag around service history.

 

The car is for sale in one of those car supermarket type garages, and whilst the car looks excellent with only 10,000 miles there is zero service history from before last week (when they serviced it).

 

Is there any way to check what service history a car has had online/anywhere? They have no online record of service which I am assuming means they checked the Skoda online database. 
 

Also really struggling to find when the first one should have been (2/3 years?) but regardless should have had at least one as was registered Jan 2020.

 

 

Should I be walking away from this car?

Any help appreciated

5 hours ago, Octavia322 said:

They have no online record of service which I am assuming means they checked the Skoda online database.

 

"They" being the car supermarket? I doubt they have access to Skoda's database. Call a Skoda dealer and ask the service department.

Easiest way to get the skoda history is by using the live chat on Skoda's own contact us page (https://www.skoda.co.uk/discover/contact-us) I'm also looking to buy and have got the history of a good 10+ cars this way. They'll email you a pdf on the spot. Be warned though - the history is often pretty vague and doesn't give you much detail, which I've found frustrating. 

I bought my car with a part service history recently from a Skoda main dealer, part being a part Skoda digital service history 7 it was an approved car with a years skoda warranty attached. I waited until after I'd bought my car, when the new log book arrived, I then checked it's previous MOT history using the front ref numbers on the log book. I then realised one of the previous mot's was with an independent garage at the time that service was missing. I then rang that garage up, explained to them that I was trying to find this missed service. They informed me that they had serviced it, along with the mot. They then kindly emailed me confirmation of this missing service, without the previous owners name & address on it to keep within the gdpr rules. My car now has an fsh. I did get a bit lucky & took the car on knowing that one service was missing from it's previous history.

All a fsh means to me is that it's hopefully been serviced to a minimum standard prior to me buying it. I also tend to go from the general condition of the car, too & price, regardless of a fsh. As a lot of people just don't keep receipts, even if they'd had it serviced on a regular basis with an independent or service it themselves. 

It's possible it could have been on a long life service, up to 2 yearly or set service intervals, yearly, as far as I know. My car is a 1.5tsi, was initially on LL service schedule, I've switched it to yearly, my preference for what oil costs. It also had an earlier service done within it's history, due to it being previously part exchanged to a Skoda garage & they serviced it early to then sell it on again. 

Edited 11 February, 20242 yr by Phoenixboy