My Skoda Fabia had its 40,000 mile service today - the yearly service carried out slightly early at 3.2 years owing to mileage being somewhat over 10,000 miles pa.

The service was £325 - it would have been £360 if it had coincided with a brake fluid change (needed every two years - done slightly late at the 30,000 one) - it would have been £780 if it had coincided with a cambelt change (needed every four years).

I'm pondering now whether to sell before the 50,000 mile service which will be £190 + £35 brake fluid + £420 cambelt = £645 !!! So much for supposedly cheap cars!

I told them £420 sounded high for a cambelt. They said they did it properly including tensioners. Labour rate is £69.50 + vat.

full cam belt kit, inc tensioner and idler is £88 plus the VAT , so £103.40

£420 - £103.40 = £316.60 or 3.876 hours labour :eek: for a 2.5 hour job

rip off :thumbdwn:

This is why I do all my servicing at non Skoda places. But then I've also no warranty to worry about, so I'm not bothered either way.

Shop around and try non-dealer garages, if its done at a VAT reg garage, it should preserve the warranty

Skoda Cambelt kit and water pump fitted on my Fab vRS by Lightcliffe (Nissan) ne Skoda in Halifax last week. Total £309 inc VAT . Very good service by them given an Octy Mk2 as loan car.

I've stopped using the skoda dealer for servicing.

Using a local garage now.

Just had the belt done although it probably wasnt needing it, better to have the belt done than buy and fit a new engine.

£69 an hour what a fooking joke.

I take all my cars to a retired mechanic, £15 an hour, bargian!

servicing is a piece of ****, you could do it yourself easy peasy for a few hours light graft at a weekend

mines due its first service on saturday (although its only done 9,200 im going away at end of december) - £160 - i didnt think was that bad for genuine dealer price - how does that compare?

Your warranty will be intact if whoever doing the servicing is VAT registered and they use OEM parts.

You're totally right DJR - going to have my 20,000 service coming up soon. Always planned on having the car services by Skoda, however the money I will save taking elsewhere will more than make up the money lost from not having a FSSH.

I got quoted £199 and £240 for 30k service in the bristol area! thought it was abit steep!

I got rid of mine just before the 80k service....

as I totted it up, it needed a cambelt change, normal service (the big one, not just the oil change) including brake fluid change, and also needed new rear discs and pads....

for all that it would have cost me for that service alone, well, it paid for the new car for three months! :eek:

I get my work done at Awesome GTI now. The work and the fuel for travelling and still loads cheaper than a dealer.

I paid £275 for my 40k service in july for my furby Vrs at Silbury skoda in Cramlington, they were really good with me and give me a bottle of the VW window wash and a ticket for the car wash which i thought was good of them

Alot better then some prices i've read people have paid for theirs to be done :(

Your warranty will be intact if whoever doing the servicing is VAT registered and they use OEM parts.

or can prove in court they are a competent person with the relevent skills to do the job,and of course use oem parts:thumbup: