Hi all and Merry Christmas.
I bought my golf in June and have done 10,000 miles and it requires a service.
Not sure what service it was originally set up for but the garage I bought from services it and set it up as a time/ distance service. I have read threads and really good advice about the difference between Longlife service and time/ distance and I think I fall within the longlife as I drive around 30 miles a day to/ from work mix of A and B roads and some city at the end. I rarely rev it over 3,000 and drive to Inverness approx 5 times a a year. Try to keep cold starts and short journeys to a minimum.
Anyway, I have always used my local garage and friend of dads to do a service, costing around £100 to £150 for a full service on a BMW 5 series. This time round I have found another local garage that are VW specialists and will do a full Lifelong service using all VW parts and do a full Diagnostic health check as they have all the equipment. Total price is £220. Is this reasonable and should I do use this new garage?
As an alternative from VWparts online I can buy all that I need for approx £50 and could do it all myself but I can't do a full system health check, stamp the book and do all the other usual full service checks etc. thoughts?
Damn service in the middle of Christmas with my wife due our 1st child!
Cheers!