Hello All

Need some advice please.

Yesterday morning I took my Fabia into Skoda garage to have its first service. The display was telling me INSPEC at just under 10.000 miles.

I have been advised on this forum that my Skoda does use oil for the first 10.000 miles so have kept it topped up.

Last week I checked the oil and it was a couple of mm from max fill level on the dipstick. And it was jet black. So did not touch it as the following week it was going in for service

I handed it over at 8.30 am yesterday morning. Three hours later had a call to come and collect it.

Around two hours later I got home and I checked the oil. It was at the same level and the same consistency/colour as it was when I handed it over at 8.30.

So rang Skoda garage. They assured me that the oil had been changed. I questioned them on this?

Went to an independent garage and they told me that the colour does go black after this short time.

Even saying this I would have thought there should still be some trace of the virgin brown colour of the oil.

Asked a friend who told me to do a test....

Get some oil on your finger and thumb and if there is some stringy oil as you pull finger and thumb apart then it is new oil (Hope you are following me)

I did this this morning and the oil is like water consistency (very thin)

Advice please????? Thanks

The oil goes jet black in under 5 miles on a diesel and no trace of new oil colour. If you're worried that the oil wasn't changed then go back and give 'em hell, but I can't imagine a main dealer wouldn't carry one out!

Chris

I think your friend is talking ballcocks! As to the consistency, these cars use 0W to 10W viscosity (exact figure depending on service schedule and brand of oil used). 0W is the viscosity of liquid water at 0C IIRC, so it's not going to feel "stringy"!

Aan, as Chris says, a diesel will blacken its oil in nowt flat.