Hello

I have a manual 71 plate 1.0 SE TSI 21,000 miles. It had a service (main dealer) at 19800 miles, skoda wanted to charge me £120 to change the plugs ( is said no). How often do they need replacing.

I got the car last November on 14K miles and the last few months i'm doing 1200 a month

Thank you for your help

Hello, welcome to the forum.

Reasonably sure that the plugs are good for at least 30,000 miles (I think I've actually seen refs to 40K)

On another VAG site I see a reference to 6 years or 80,000 miles for spark plugs!

While I think 80k might be a little long, 20k would be too soon.

my first change was on 60000 kms, in miles it would be 37000 miles.

Edited 8 September, 20258 Sep by imart143

In the UK the Service Regime / Recommendation, Guidelines / Schedule / Specification is at 40,000 miles / 4 years.

3 Plugs with the Fixed Price menu was the same as 4 plugs.

Some are now being asked for £200 be it 3 or 4 plugs. Greedu Barstewards.

1.0 TSI,s can have 1 plug poor by 30,000 miles.

Just been stung by this - 31,000 miles on my Scala, had a service two weeks back, this week i get an email for spark plug change, £150 !

I rang them and turns out they forgot to send me the healthcheck when being serviced or i would have had them done then. I think £150 is pretty bad for 3 plugs.

I think that it is 4 years for "single Iridium" spark plugs and 6 years for "double Iridium" spark plugs - these EA211 engines tend to get "single Iridium" spark plugs.

I changed the spark plugs on our younger daughter's 2019 Arona 1.0TSI 115PS just because they were up visiting us and it was over 4 years old, their VAG Indie had left them in as they don't do many miles per year, but I just felt the need to go with what the car manufacturer recommends.

As the three cylinder has three plugs each is 33.3% contribution so if one has an issue that's a third contribution to possible engine issues so even more important to replace them before they go over or off too much..

The following (ETA: Fabia) video shows how straight forward the job of replacing the spark plugs can be (except for dealing with aged wunderbar VW fantastic-plastic bits perhaps) and I'd not use the plugs they mention or necessarily use mister auto for parts and not initially replace the new plugs by using other than hand to feel the threads mate correctly.

Whilst doing this I would also replace the engine air filter and clean inside the air box and hoses whilst the air box is out of the car.

Edited 29 September, 202529 Sep by nta16
typos

Warning:- some versions/ages of this 1.0TSI engine have a single small bolt holding the air cleaner down, not looking for that first, and removing it, will end up with something getting broken.