Fabia servicing schedule

[g75f]

Hi,
i have spent the last hour looking for a Document which i got of this site regarding the servicing schedule for the Fabia VRS. After spending one hour looking i have given up so could someone please tell me where i could find it please?
I know im going to get some abuse for asking this and being lazy etc but i have never been good at looking for things, well finding them anyway

[ric04vrs]

if you've got your service book for the car ,whats required at each service is in that

[andfit]

Originally Posted by g75f

Hi,
i have spent the last hour looking for a Document which i got of this site regarding the servicing schedule for the Fabia VRS. After spending one hour looking i have given up so could someone please tell me where i could find it please?
I know im going to get some abuse for asking this and being lazy etc but i have never been good at looking for things, well finding them anyway

PM sent...

[DRJ]

Originally Posted by g75f

i have spent the last hour looking for a Document which i got of this site regarding the servicing schedule for the Fabia VRS. After spending one hour looking i have given up so could someone please tell me where i could find it please?

Here's my analysis of the "problem" as posted previously:

Skoda have caused real confusion here

It's reasonably clear what happens if you do 10,000 or 20,000 miles a year and 5,000 can be readily deduced. But what if like me you're doing about 15,000?

Here's a posting I made on another thread to which no one gave an explanation:

The Fabia has an absurdly stupid servicing regime.

"Every 10,000 miles carry out an Oil Change Service.

After one year carry out an Annual Inspection, the Annual Inspection always then includes an Oil Change Service.

If the car is driven 10,000 miles before one year has elapsed, carry out an Oil Change Service

If the car is driven more than 20,000 miles in a year, the Inspection Service should be carried out every 20,000 miles and not once a year."

There are then various additions at 20,000 (lots), 40,000 (lots), 60,000 70,000, 80,000, 100,000, and 120,000 mile intervals (not all relevant to every model) - and various additions at 2 year, 3 year, 4 year, 5 year and 15 year invervals (again not all relevant to every model)!!!


So let's example various scenarios:

For a car doing 5,000 miles per year:

An Annual Inspection including oil change every year - with a major service every four years - excepting brake fluid being changed every two years...

For a car doing 10,000 miles per year:

An Annual Inspection including oil change every year - with a major service every two years.

For a car doing 15,000 miles per year:

This is the tricky one - and potentially the one I fall into. In theory you'd have an Oil Change service at 8 months - then an Annual Inspection at 12 months; but an Annual Inspection is defined as including an Oil Change so the oil would only have been in the car for 5,000 miles... Then FOUR months later when the odometer hits 20,000 you have to have ANOTHER service!!! Now if this was only to inspect things due at the 20,000 service and not an Oil Change you'd then FOUR months later have to have an Oil Change since it will then have been in the car for 10,000 miles... And then the second Annual Inspection FOUR months later... This just doesn't make sense and I'd appreciate anyone who can interpret what I've suggested differently sticking within Skoda's stated regime.

Another interpretation would be to have an Oil Change service at 8 months/ 10,000 miles, then an Annual Service at 15,000/ 12 months - and then an Annual Service every 8 months/10,000 miles. Though this then doesn't fall into the 20,000/40,000 scenario so can't be the way forward.

As Hellfire suggests the "simple" way of looking at this conundrum is to simply take the Annual Inspection at 8 months/10,000 miles and work simply up from that point with an Inspection Service every 10,000 miles/ 8 months.

In fact that appears to be what the Service Record is suggesting because in mine it says "Next Inspection Service at 10,000 miles" which technically is INCORRECT! It should say "Next Oil Change..."

For a car doing 20,000 miles per year:

After 6 months an Oil Change service, then an Annual Inspection at 12 months (being a big service) , then an Oil Change service only at 30,000 miles/18 months with another big Annual Inspection at 40,000/2 years.

The result must be a certain degree of confusion when it comes to booking a car in for servicing - and it also presumably means fixed price servicing is impossible owing to the variety of things which might need doing at a service depending on the annual mileage


The problem I now have is that having had two "Annual" Inspection Services at 8 month intervals while I was doing 15,000 miles pa, my mileage has now dropped right off and so I'll have to have the 24 month brake fluid change between services...

[Organist]

I'm glad you understand it.............because I sure don't!

Why is the Octy 2 VARIABLE service and the Fabia not? It's the same engine (well 19.TD anyway)

[cheezemonkhai]

The Octy II isn't the same engine it's the 105PD not the 130.

Also the 1.9 PD 130 is more likely to be driven hard in a vRS so they are probably playing it a bit safe.

[Neily03]

I've been puzzled by this too and have decided when i get mine ( i do about 13-14k miles a year) just to have the oil change and inspection every 10k miles. Saves all the fookin' around being back and too and the dealers...

[HellFire]

IIRC, the car needs to be serviced every 10k or 1 year whichever comes 1st, it's that simple, if you are doing 15k per year, you will need to get it serviced every 10k which would mean 3 services in 2 years but you wouldnt need the annual inspection as you would be doing more than 10k each year.

[bryand]

It's best to think of it as two seperate regimes:
a) Change the oil every 10,000 miles come what may.
b) On it's birthday, give it an annual inspection.
If that means changing young oil, ask the garage not to change the oil on that occasion. You can reduce costs by supplying your own oil for the garage to use.

[Organist]

Originally Posted by cheezemonkhai

The Octy II isn't the same engine it's the 105PD not the 130.

Also the 1.9 PD 130 is more likely to be driven hard in a vRS so they are probably playing it a bit safe.

I realise that, but do the engines differ in any other regard, except power output: or as you say, is the additonal power o/p of the 130PD enough to warrant this different servicing regieme?

[Imperator]

This regime is mad. I had a full inspection service including oil change and filters only 10 weeks (about 1500 miles) ago, and now I've had an oil service indicator coming up telling me I need an oil change? Ridiculous. Surely I'm OK to just reset the service indicator and leave it until my next annual service before I change the oil again?

[DGW]

Originally Posted by Organist

Why is the Octy 2 VARIABLE service and the Fabia not? It's the same engine (well 19.TD anyway)

For the Fabia diesel to be on variable service intervals it would need (among other things) a thermal sender for oil level, brake sensor, specially encoded dash panel, and maps in the engine ECU for soot load and thermal oil load to enable the distance to next service to be calculated. It doesn't have these hence it cannot be programmed for variable service intervals. Maybe it is a cost issue.

[MikeW]

I just take mine into the dealers every 10,000 miles and say "service it please!".

[Babs]

I think it should be read as "10,000 miles OR 1 year, which ever is sooner"

[DRJ]

Originally Posted by Imperator

I had a full inspection service including oil change and filters only 10 weeks (about 1500 miles) ago, and now I've had an oil service indicator coming up telling me I need an oil change? Ridiculous. Surely I'm OK to just reset the service indicator and leave it until my next annual service before I change the oil again?

In a word, Yes.

In a few more words you could always try this: Go along to the Dealer and point out that if they'd done their job properly the Oil Service indicator should not have come on. If they missed to reset the Service Indicator what else might they have missed? Did you get a checklist? I had my Freelander serviced at a LR dealer and afterwards I took out the pollen filter only to find it black and clearly unchanged. I challenged the dealer to prove they'd done a proper service otherwise and they did a complete new service - giving me the checklist this time around. I took the pollen filter out when I got the car back - it was white!

That said, the Service Indicator on my car usually doesn't come on in any case...