First up, I know I'm going to sound like a silly old fossil, but here goes and I'll do my best not to descend into a rant.

Last October my partner took ownership of a nearly new Karoq - Diesel 4x4 SE L. We've had a string of Skodas over the last 25 years or so. I happened to ask her yesterday if the service reminder had flagged up (as I recalled the car was first registered in June 2024). No, she said, but the adblue now chimes 1400 miles to go. I went out to the car and delved into the 'car' menu and found that the stated service is reading "inspection in 12100 miles or 463 days, oil change service in 15000 miles or 98 days". I've/we've always had our cars serviced once every 12 months or every 10,000 miles, whichever came sooner. There appeared to be no way, on screen, to change the service interval to our own preference.

Of course, there's no hard copy manual. So I logged on to the digital manual (cue mad deranged cackle of descent into insanity) and searched for service interval changing. A bewildering number of options appeared, none of which matched the simple 'how to reset he service interval' came up. The closest I found told me how to do what I'd already done to read the service setting in-car, but with dire warnings about changing this (with no indications of how I could change then anyway) Urrrgh,.

Anyway, we've just booked the car into our favourite, long-time supporting, independent Skoda Specialist and they're going to sort it the week after next.

But, I'm still interested in asking whether anyone knows how to reset the service interval to avoid the dreaded variable interval set-up?

Better still, does anyone know how to lay our hands on a proper hard-copy manual? I'm guessing not as it'll form one of those banned sacred text hidden in a deep bunker in the Czech Republic.

Thank you for your patience.

PS, we've asked if the garage can also have a wax treatment of the underside as our last Fabia (80,000 miles) was showing premature aging due to the high level of salting on our very rural northern lanes. Good idea or not?

If they are a Skoda specialist ask them to change the service interval from variable to fixed and reset it when you have the service.

11 hours ago, Ooopnorth said:

First up, I know I'm going to sound like a silly old fossil, but here goes and I'll do my best not to descend into a rant.

Last October my partner took ownership of a nearly new Karoq - Diesel 4x4 SE L. We've had a string of Skodas over the last 25 years or so. I happened to ask her yesterday if the service reminder had flagged up (as I recalled the car was first registered in June 2024). No, she said, but the adblue now chimes 1400 miles to go. I went out to the car and delved into the 'car' menu and found that the stated service is reading "inspection in 12100 miles or 463 days, oil change service in 15000 miles or 98 days". I've/we've always had our cars serviced once every 12 months or every 10,000 miles, whichever came sooner. There appeared to be no way, on screen, to change the service interval to our own preference.

Of course, there's no hard copy manual. So I logged on to the digital manual (cue mad deranged cackle of descent into insanity) and searched for service interval changing. A bewildering number of options appeared, none of which matched the simple 'how to reset he service interval' came up. The closest I found told me how to do what I'd already done to read the service setting in-car, but with dire warnings about changing this (with no indications of how I could change then anyway) Urrrgh,.

Anyway, we've just booked the car into our favourite, long-time supporting, independent Skoda Specialist and they're going to sort it the week after next.

But, I'm still interested in asking whether anyone knows how to reset the service interval to avoid the dreaded variable interval set-up?

Better still, does anyone know how to lay our hands on a proper hard-copy manual? I'm guessing not as it'll form one of those banned sacred text hidden in a deep bunker in the Czech Republic.

Thank you for your patience.

PS, we've asked if the garage can also have a wax treatment of the underside as our last Fabia (80,000 miles) was showing premature aging due to the high level of salting on our very rural northern lanes. Good idea or not?

Would this help?

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13 minutes ago, pinkpanther said:

Would this help?

https://ebay.us/m/9YTyQH

Excellent find. Thank you.

13 hours ago, Ooopnorth said:

Of course, there's no hard copy manual.

The SEL Edition I picked up last week had a hard copy manual. Albeit in a really low rent cardboard sleeve rather than a nice wallet. This is on the back cover:

I've tried Googling what looks like the part no. but no results. Maybe try your dealer?

Having said that, there's nothing in there about changing the service interval. The Polo I had previously was switched from variable to fixed by the dealer at first service, so I suspect it's a dealer only operation.

Yes, we had that too with the car and yes it did seem 'low-rent' :).

I've managed to download a manual now and that will suffice.

Thank you.