Timing belt interval

[Cakey_]

Afternoon All, I've been looking to buy a skoda superb as a family car.
I've found a 2019 car at our local main dealers, for a good price so placed a deposit on it.
I enquired when the timing belt was changed and if it would be sorted before collection and they told me skoda has changed the timing belt intervals on the 2.0tdi amd they're now not 5 yearly and are now 140k miles instead?

Does that sound right?
It seems odd to me that they would change a service interval on something like that.

[oakdale]

Cakey_ said:

Afternoon All, I've been looking to buy a skoda superb as a family car.
I've found a 2019 car at our local main dealers, for a good price so placed a deposit on it.
I enquired when the timing belt was changed and if it would be sorted before collection and they told me skoda has changed the timing belt intervals on the 2.0tdi amd they're now not 5 yearly and are now 140k miles instead?

Does that sound right?
It seems odd to me that they would change a service interval on something like that.

See this.
https://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&...

[DirktheDaring]

Pretty sure that’s across the whole UK VAG range, they have been brought in line with our European cousins.

Not much online about it, or not from a casual Google search anyway, maybe VW trying to keep it a bit quiet?

Many of us Transporter owners were complaining why left hookers had 5 year intervals and over here we had 4.

We now have no time limit and 140k intervals, I think.

More info - https://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&...

[itcaptainslow]

VAG in general were mileage only intervals - it was their UK counterparts who stipulated '5 years or X miles'. This has now been dropped to bring them into line with the rest of Europe.

[SteBrown91]

Personally I’d still get it done every 5 years or so. I’m not sure I’d trust a modern VW water pump to do 140k