At the time we took the lease on it suited our needs perfectly. In the light that I have not got any crystal balls handy I wast to keep abreast of changing circumstances in order to make the best possible decision when the time comes. Although at preset, more room is not a crucial factor being slightly smaller is.

Me too, in the workshop with mes chéries everyday. Maybe a little work, some preparation for the next event or just to stroke them en passant.

I'm talking about a 1.2tsi so I don't know if the same necessarily applies to your model.

True the Octy was cavernous and was much used (and abused) when I was in France but I had no need of it after that which is why I sold it there although ironically the lady who bought it herself later relocated to Spain and loved it so much that she brought it with her and it now lives barely 100km from me!

I still empty it out at the bottom of the engine not that I do an oil change that often myself. 😅
I think I have done two oil changes on my van over the ten years its been here.
I can get dizzy trying to work upside down and fiddling about with a car engine.

I never wait for service reminders, I change every 10,000km.

No need to write or remember.

I start off when the odoometer reaches a 10,000km roll over then I know it's due every time that happens.

i.e. the Yeti had 99,500 on the clock when I bought it but it had no service history so I changed it 100,000 then again a few weeks back at 110,000, and will continue so on.

Sticking to the 15,000km interval is just as easy but if you're doing it at 9k then why not extend it to 10, it cannot possibly do any harm.

You don't really need long life 507.00 if changing every 9k (or 10), 502.00 will be more than adequate.

I'm a firm believer in oil being the key to engine longevity and although it's from a bygone era I am 100% convinced that quasi religious 3000 mile oil changes in my MGB are whats seen the engine power the car for a shade under 500,000 miles with no more than a set of shells on the still standard size crank and a (first) 20 thou rebore at around 100,000 miles which is what was on it when I bought it 35 years ago.

Thats using cheap as chips 20w50 BTW and when I was driving it 10's of thousands of miles annually in UK, so changing it 3 or sometimes 4x a month, I was buying it in bulk through contacts in the trade.

I always have a chuckle when I see discussions about oil on classic car forums turn into heated arguments espousing the importance of using £££ 'Classic' oils or the critical need for xx% of ZDDP blah blah blah.

Laziness, its what is programmed into the ECU, I know that I could change it but there are literally thousands of variables many idetical and my last attempt lost the service reminder completely.

Its at 15K kilometers I think and/or 372 days, I usually drive a long time beyond the warning, this time a lot of miles and after changing the oil can't recall how to reset the reminder so it got done this week after driving for around 6 weeks since the oil change so I'm actually doing 10k miles up to 12K between oil changes.

There are a lot more priorities at present than chronometric oil changes and I have been racking up big mileages for the last 18 months.