Intercooler hose seal leak

[tuglet]

Had my Mk5 GTI serviced today and got an advisory for near side intercooler hose seal leaking. Dealer quoted £48 to replace. Not a lot of money but I could do without spending it until pay day at the end of the month. Is this something that needs to be sorted asap or can it wait a couple of weeks?

Also, I'm on time and distance service regime, and I notice they've ticked the box to indicate that long life oil was not used. I thought they used long life oil as a matter of course now?

[PDT]

Seal is £4 and takes less than 10 mins to put car on ramps and replace seal. Sort of thing I do FOC for customers.

£48 is nothing but profiteering.

[Tfsi_Mike]

I've had it done a few times now and cost nowhere near that and like Dave said is often even FOC

[JStav]

Seal is £4 and takes less than 10 mins to put car on ramps and replace seal. Sort of thing I do FOC for customers.

£48 is nothing but profiteering.

Which i can vouch for! 

[tuglet]

Thanks for the replies. The car is going back next week for a paint repair as they managed to scrape my front bumper while they had it. I'll try to get them to do the seal FOC as a goodwill gesture.

Any comment on the use of non-long life oil? I thought they always used long life oil these days despite the service regime?

[jonnym]

Sorry guys to bring back a old thread but literally had to post this.........qouted by VW to fix my intercooler seal leak -----> £96!

Amazing price that. Sarcasm btw!