10.000 mile service

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jmk1
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10.000 mile service

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Had the Polo serviced on Tuesday. VW garage.

The total cost was £129 .The oil and filter was changed.

The oil came to £34 .The total cost for parts was £40.

So for an inspection service (how can a garage call that a service)

or to put it another way I paid a garage £89 to tell me what needed

doing to my car :x :x :x :x Daylight Robbery in my opinion

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warrmr
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Re: 10.000 mile service

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jmk1 wrote:Had the Polo serviced on Tuesday. VW garage.

The total cost was £129 .The oil and filter was changed.

The oil came to £34 .The total cost for parts was £40.

So for an inspection service (how can a garage call that a service)

or to put it another way I paid a garage £89 to tell me what needed

doing to my car :x :x :x :x Daylight Robbery in my opinion

jmk1.
can you not DIY or is it a new one that has to be dealer serviced to keep the warentee.
mfa-polo
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Post by mfa-polo »

I know what you mean, tomorrow my tdi100 is having a 40k service (the big one) and MOT, ive been told it will cost £265 if it passes the MOT. I keep telling myself the residual value will be better with a full VWSH.
jmk1
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10.000 mile service

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I have never had a VW before (always had Vauxhall or Fords)

I thought in a 10.000 service they would at least include Plugs and other

bits and pieces etc. At £129 to change the oil and filter and supply me

with a reort on whats wrong with my car , I think is daylight robbery.

In future I'll change my own oil. :x :x

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JTLondon
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Post by JTLondon »

What do you guys do with your old oil?
Didnt you read the reports on the news about company garages charging rediculous amounts? :?

Or was it a VW specialist garage?
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JTLondon wrote:What do you guys do with your old oil?
Didnt you read the reports on the news about company garages charging rediculous amounts? :?

Or was it a VW specialist garage?
my local tip has a oil recycling plant. so you bottle it up in a milk carton or summat and take it down there declaire engine oil they point you to a shed int eh corner and you pour the oil into a bucket in the shed and they deal with it.
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