Octavia vRS mk1 servicing
This is a discussion on Octavia vRS mk1 servicing within the Maintenance & Performance forums, part of the General Motoring Discussions category; My Octavia vRS is telling me its due its 4th/80k service - its on variable servicing. Its only done 19k ...
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18-04-2008, 11:20
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|  Octavia vRS mk1 servicing My Octavia vRS is telling me its due its 4th/80k service - its on variable servicing. Its only done 19k since its last service - does anyone know how olng I can leave it before it needs to be serviced? All servicing has been carried out by Skoda but its now out of warranty so I'd prefer to delay the servicing now if it won't harm anything. The cars just over 3 years old with 84k on clock. I bought it a year old and it only had 4k on - yes that 80k in just over 2 years!! Any advice would be appreciated. Cheers |
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18-04-2008, 11:24
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|  Re: Octavia vRS mk1 servicing It scares me seeing a car with so long between services!
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18-04-2008, 11:48
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| Re: Octavia vRS mk1 servicing Its serviced almost every 6 months - just struggling to afford it now!! |
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18-04-2008, 12:10
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| Re: Octavia vRS mk1 servicing 80k in two years?! Wow, what do you use it for? 
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18-04-2008, 12:27
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| Re: Octavia vRS mk1 servicing 20_000 miles or so between services is a long time IMO. |
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18-04-2008, 12:35
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| Re: Octavia vRS mk1 servicing Living in West Midlands and working in Bristol, Aberdovey and Oxford with an 85 communte each way - at speed naturally!!!! |
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18-04-2008, 12:50
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| Re: Octavia vRS mk1 servicing id certanly be atleast changing the oil twice as often! variably servicing never seems to me as a good idea anyway.
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18-04-2008, 13:10
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| Re: Octavia vRS mk1 servicing To the OP, I would be looking at getting it serviced asap. 19K miles is about the maximum time between services. I am very pro variable servicing. My previous octy vRS was on variable, as is my current one. Having done more than 140K miles split between them and having no issues with either car. Indeed the last MOT before I sold the first octy it was commented on how good the emissions were for such a high mileage. My current car was last serviced in august last year, and will be due its 3rd service in about 3 months at just under 60K miles. Modern oils are nothing like old oils, and the sensors in the engine constantly monitor oil quality and trigger the service request when the ecu deems it appropriate. BMW have had variable servicing for more than 20 years, and they seem to go on for 000's of miles.
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18-04-2008, 13:15
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| Re: Octavia vRS mk1 servicing Running variable oil, I'd consider leaving the oil change to 20_000 or so, but the inspect/adjust items (like brake pads and spark plugs) IMO want doing at least twice that often. |
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18-04-2008, 13:20
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| Re: Octavia vRS mk1 servicing Isn't the point of varialble servicing that you get it done when the car asks for it? ie now |
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18-04-2008, 13:32
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| Re: Octavia vRS mk1 servicing Quote:
What I'm asking is are Skoda covering their **** by flagging up the servicing early and making them more money? | |
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18-04-2008, 13:45
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18-04-2008, 14:58
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| Re: Octavia vRS mk1 servicing its not imminent but id do it it the next 500-1000 miles.
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18-04-2008, 22:45
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| Re: Octavia vRS mk1 servicing So, is the little 'service' thing that falshes briefly the only indication you get that it wants one? I've just had this on mine, I'd noticed it counting down and now it has no distance, just 'service'. I was expecting a beep and a little spanner to stay up on the dash all the time!?
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21-04-2008, 09:33
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21-04-2008, 10:16
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| Re: Octavia vRS mk1 servicing i was expecting a light on the dash in the blanked off area bu nothing just a little bit in the clock. anyone know if the Vrs has anything in the middle of the cluster light wise?
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