I must say I'm a bit astounded at so many rattle problems. Are you sure your kids aren't planting something in hard to get at spaces, just drive the old bloke potty! My Superb FSI sedan is now 3 years old & there is not one single noise eminating from the car, that shouldn't be there. That's even though I've driven it on some pretty rough gravel roads. The absence of squeaks,groans, rattle etc, is one of the things which has impressed me about the car.
I'm left wondering about the maintenance schedules owners are adopting for their cars. I know it's popular for lease companies to only do those services scheduled in the owner's manual. One good reason not to buy a used lease or fleet vehicle. Scheduled servicing 10k kms to a ridiculous 50k kms apart are just a recipe for ensuring you're back in the showroom looking for a other one far too often. Long services intervals is just a low cost sop for fleet buyers who don't even hold onto vehicles as long as warranty anyway.
I know Skoda have 15k kms intervals, but I could never leave a car that long. Despite all the advertising claims, oil simply doesn't deliver for that long. One only has to look & feel the oil out of any late model BMW, which run their engines now at very high internal temperature, for performance & emissions reason, to know you'd never want to buy one second hand, unless you can afford the big repair bills.
5k really is the limit if you value the engine & DSG in a car you own & want to keep longer. One can add regular Haldex diff fluid changes too for that matter, if it is a 4x4. I don't know what others do, but I service my car for fluids every 5k & do a whip around of all those little things, like rubber & latch lubes which most local garages don't really do anyway.
I'd be very interested to know how many only service a vehicle they own themselves, at the intervals in the book.
I'm left wondering about the maintenance schedules owners are adopting for their cars. I know it's popular for lease companies to only do those services scheduled in the owner's manual. One good reason not to buy a used lease or fleet vehicle. Scheduled servicing 10k kms to a ridiculous 50k kms apart are just a recipe for ensuring you're back in the showroom looking for a other one far too often. Long services intervals is just a low cost sop for fleet buyers who don't even hold onto vehicles as long as warranty anyway.
I know Skoda have 15k kms intervals, but I could never leave a car that long. Despite all the advertising claims, oil simply doesn't deliver for that long. One only has to look & feel the oil out of any late model BMW, which run their engines now at very high internal temperature, for performance & emissions reason, to know you'd never want to buy one second hand, unless you can afford the big repair bills.
5k really is the limit if you value the engine & DSG in a car you own & want to keep longer. One can add regular Haldex diff fluid changes too for that matter, if it is a 4x4. I don't know what others do, but I service my car for fluids every 5k & do a whip around of all those little things, like rubber & latch lubes which most local garages don't really do anyway.
I'd be very interested to know how many only service a vehicle they own themselves, at the intervals in the book.
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