Hey folks,
VW Have a great offer, £349 for 2 services & 2 MOT's.
Until you call them and they say 'your not eligible' and instead have quoted me £380 for a 48k service inc brake fluid change
Quite what they do in the service for that cost, im not sure, but i'd imagine an oil and filter change is the main part of it.
They don't help themselves do they?
I called my local VW Specialist, who has told me £150 or £100 if I supply the oil & filter (which I will). That will also include brake fluid change, pollen & air filter change, along with the inspections that VW do (walk past the car with a sandwich in their hand pretending to look at things probably
)
Admitedly, it does not include the car wash that VW offer, but im sure the £280 saved could get quite a decent one of those
On a serious note, I did plan on using VW, but that's a ridiculous price, my car doesn't have full VWSH, just FSH, so it's not like I needed to use VW, plus I have a VW Stamp from when I used the local VW to do cambelt, water pump & dsg oil change last August.
Is there anything else I should have done at 48k? VW said I should be on a time and distance schedule or something (every 20k?) but I've changed the oil twice in the last 10k both times with Quantum longlife 3, this time i'll use Castrol SLX 5w30 as per forum recommendation!
I changed the spark plugs myself last August (circa 40k) so they don't need doing.