Hi Guys, I just had my car fully serviced at my local Indy garage, even though my car is still technically under warranty (23 plate). I get all my cars done there and trust them and want to spend my money locally rather than dealerships. Anyway, I noticed this when I first got the car and again now as the service interval has been reset, it’s 9,400 miles till the next service. I know Skoda does fixed and variable service schedules but I’m not sure why it’s not 10,000 or 12 months, whichever is sooner. Is this a normal interval? I’m a driving instructor so with the miles I do, I don’t want to have to get my car serviced 3 times a year and would if the service interval is as low as 9,400 miles. I suppose I could get a major, minor, minor done a year as the minor is only really an oil change. But that’s still a lot. Cheers.

What miles has it done, & what was FULLY Serviced, was the Pollen Filter changed, was the brake fluid changed according to the Skoda Schedule now, @ 2 years? VW / Skoda converted km to miles and got 15,000 km to 9,300 with VW,s and for Skoda's 9,400 miles. Then a year and a week from a PDI, allowing for holidays maybe 372 days not 12 months. Variable 24 months / 18,000-20,000. Major / Minor was a decade back, then Interim / Major. Now Oil & Inspection Service and that with Extended Scope each 3 years. The Garage will know what the car needs and when for your usage surely. If you want it,s oil and filter changed at 12,000 miles, or 15,000 then have that done. It could have been left on Variable servicing and not reset to Fixed, 9,400 miles / 1 year (1 year and a week.) PS, Spark Plugs changed 4 years / 40,000 miles or sooner. Air filter checked each service, not as per Skoda / VW, 60,000 miles / 6 years.

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I thought my reply submitted but it didn’t. My car has done 19,500 miles. 9K of those were done in the last 3.5 months, being a driving instructor. The lads in my Indy garage are good lads, they only replace and charge for what’s required to be changed. So we don’t generally stick to major/minor routine anyway. I send my cars in with the loose instruction of major/minor. So if it’s in for a major but some things are inspected and seen to be fine, they don’t get replaced. Alternatively, if I send it in for a minor and they notice something during their checks, they’ll ring me and ask if I want it done and advise me as to whether it needs doing or will last until the next major service etc. I trust them which is important and they look after us, coming to get us when my wife’s alternator and battery went the way of the dodo at 8pm last January. I’m just happy that 9,400 is standard. It was just bugging me not being 10k.

Skoda UK have never made a big deal if Fixed Servicing is done at 10,000 miles because it is within 1,000 miles of the Schedule. But the small print says 500 miles for the Warranty. But all cars other than the Citigo have left the Factory for the UK since 2011 with Variable Servicing showing. They get changed if they do usually at the PDI, maybe without having asked the first registered keeper, or if Demonstrators.

1 hour ago, MURVAG82 said:

why it’s not 10,000 or 12 months,

Because VW are German and use the metric systems (as well as their unnecessary additional VW specifications) they want 15,000km which is 9,320.5679 miles according to Google.

VWŠkoda have fixed annual 9.4k-miles or variable 20k miles but this is really only about the engine oil and filter change which as you know is a relatively unimportant component or system on the car whether you need the engine oil changed at 12-months, 9.4K-miles or less or 20k-miles or more depends on the engine use. As for the rest of the car that's from your experience but a car from VW will generally require more servicing and what VWŠkoda call "maintenance" than say for a Japanese or Korean make of car.

If your lads service other VW cars they will know what might need attention sooner rather than later, if not they can find out, as you are happy with them I'd suggest you be guided by them rather than the very specific demands of VW. If you have a VW 3-cylinder petrol I'd suggest not missing any spark plug change interval and for you going to the more expensive and longer lasting iridium plugs.

Good luck, be interesting to know how resilient a VWŠkoda Mk4 is to learner drivers' use, how long it lasts.

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