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Had the car 4 weeks, when we got it, the spanner showed service not due for 5000 miles, we've done 800 miles in it, and now it shows as needs a service.

If it's on variable servicing, surely the oil can't degrade that much in 800 miles to suddenly require doing?!

10k miles or 1 year, whatever comes quicker

Sounds like someone forgot to reset the service interval when it was serviced, assuming it was done when you got it a month ago. I would pick up a diagnostic vag-com cable and download the free Ross-Tech software. It's worth it and you can handle this and other diagnostic/coding tasks. Congrats on new car, pretty sure you will love it. Oil service intervals is up to you, I do 5k intervals, surely more frequent than I need but I like to play it safe. I try to do most of my own service hence the cost of oil is a cheap warranty in my mind, and I actually enjoy the service parts as much as I do the driving. Like my wife would say; "you are sick"

Variable servicing has different schedules for oil and inspection.

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