60,000 service and Cambelt change - Recommendations??
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I can guarantee that you won't find a vw dealer that will do the 60K service, change cambelt, tensioner & water pump for ?400!
If you can prove me wrong and give us the dealers number and I will call (and save myself some money [
])Add about ?50-?80 to include the water pump, which is not needed to be replaced! All the dealers I called said it wasn't needed!
Oh well, I've finally bitten the bullet and gone for mann Egerton in Swindon. Cheapest of all VW I either live near (Surrey) or work near (Swindon)
?241 for service, ?350 for cambelt/tensioners etc. Hopefully for that sort of moeny the car will come back cleaned and zymol'd.........yeah right!! []
?241 for service, ?350 for cambelt/tensioners etc. Hopefully for that sort of moeny the car will come back cleaned and zymol'd.........yeah right!! [
]Well as Victor Meldrew would say, "I dont believe it"
Drove to dealers this morning, greeted at the entrance, whereby they took my car straight off me, while I check the car in. Booked in within minutes and they had no problem packing the original cambelts into the new boxes and leaving them in the boot for me. Impressive!!
Just had a phone call. Brakes and brake fluid need doing. Another ?200!!!!. Sorry I says, cant afford that this month. "Maybe we can help you" says the engineer. "Well unless you can offer it free or interest free credit for a couple of month, then no, you cant help" I says back. "Well maybe we can do something for you............" says engineer. Cut a long conversation short, they reduced the cost by nearly ?100.
Devil's advocate is that if they can do that for me if I cant afford it, why cant they do it all the time for everyone and it also shows how much they already shafting other people.
Still, I'm happy []
Drove to dealers this morning, greeted at the entrance, whereby they took my car straight off me, while I check the car in. Booked in within minutes and they had no problem packing the original cambelts into the new boxes and leaving them in the boot for me. Impressive!!
Just had a phone call. Brakes and brake fluid need doing. Another ?200!!!!. Sorry I says, cant afford that this month. "Maybe we can help you" says the engineer. "Well unless you can offer it free or interest free credit for a couple of month, then no, you cant help" I says back. "Well maybe we can do something for you............" says engineer. Cut a long conversation short, they reduced the cost by nearly ?100.
Devil's advocate is that if they can do that for me if I cant afford it, why cant they do it all the time for everyone and it also shows how much they already shafting other people.
Still, I'm happy [
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has anyone done a diy cambelt change?
I resent having to line the pockets of the local vw dealer and don't
feel that i should be paying ?70+/hour for some apprentice to be
handling my pride and joy.
my dad charges less than that, and he cuts people up!
I resent having to line the pockets of the local vw dealer and don't
feel that i should be paying ?70+/hour for some apprentice to be
handling my pride and joy.
my dad charges less than that, and he cuts people up!
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