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Model specific boards => Golf mk5 => Topic started by: Makaveli on 09 September 2009, 09:42
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I just got a voucher through the post from Western VW on the Gorgie Road in Edinburgh offering me a £99 pound service or a half price MOT!!
Anyone else been sent any similar offers as it seems to good to be true!!! Coupled with the fact that I bought my ED30 from the other VW dealer in Edinburgh so not sure why I got the offer from Gorgie!!!
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I just got a voucher through the post from Western VW on the Gorgie Road in Edinburgh offering me a £99 pound service or a half price MOT!!
Anyone else been sent any similar offers as it seems to good to be true!!! Coupled with the fact that I bought my ED30 from the other VW dealer in Edinburgh so not sure why I got the offer from Gorgie!!!
Forever a cynic, here... but make sure the small print includes GTIs/Ed 30?
Excellent value though if it's all true :laugh:
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Me too that is why I asked on here to see if anyone had the same :laugh:
There is minimal small print and all that it says is that it has to be mentioned when you book the service and that it has to be used by 12/2009 and luckily for me my service is due next month.
Still can't believe it to be true - hopefully others may have received the same.
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I had a service completed recently in Glasgow for £118 at a VW stealer... Not bad.
Still, that extra £20 could have paid for a Sunday morning blast :evil:
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My first MOT is due next week, £54 at my local VW dealer.
Anyone think there is any merit in getting the MOT done at a dealer or would I be just as well heading off to a local garage and paying half the price?
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While we're on the subject and without starting yet another cambelt thread, I need to get mine done - what should I be looking at for a competitive quote? Should I get the water pump done too and how much on top for that? I've done 64k miles
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My first MOT is due next week, £54 at my local VW dealer.
Anyone think there is any merit in getting the MOT done at a dealer or would I be just as well heading off to a local garage and paying half the price?
That is the standard Governmet cost of an MOT, you will not get it any cheaper (unless some pikey garage is offering an MOT with a tyre change or something)
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There are plenty of garages that do cheaper MOT's, some also do free MOT's with a service.
However be wary, as some certainly 'look' for extra work :huh:
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Yeah, appreciate that is the figure set by the Government, just wondered if any reputable deals had been doing the rounds.
Will probably just get it booked in and done by VW.
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I used to get mine done at BMW (when I had a BMW), they would collect the car, drop it off fully valeted, and all for the cost of a standard MOT... no other work carried out. That was nice :)
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My first MOT is due next week, £54 at my local VW dealer.
Anyone think there is any merit in getting the MOT done at a dealer or would I be just as well heading off to a local garage and paying half the price?
NEVER use a main dealer for your MoT test. Even if they price match. Getting an MoT at an independent means you are getting a second pair of 'independent' eyes - which is especially handy if have any kind of 'dispute' with your stealer.
Indie MoT FTW every time. :wink:
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While we're on the subject and without starting yet another cambelt thread, I need to get mine done - what should I be looking at for a competitive quote? Should I get the water pump done too and how much on top for that? I've done 64k miles
Search the forum, and dig up the existing thread. Ignore the warning in red pen about not being posted in for more than 30 days. It will be much better to try and keep threads on topic. :wink:
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My first MOT is due next week, £54 at my local VW dealer.
Anyone think there is any merit in getting the MOT done at a dealer or would I be just as well heading off to a local garage and paying half the price?
That is the standard Governmet cost of an MOT, you will not get it any cheaper (unless some pikey garage is offering an MOT with a tyre change or something)
Rubbish. :rolleyes:
The 'official' price is set at a maximum price - many MoT tests, be they from main stealers, chains such as Halfrauds, to back street garages are all able to charge what they like - they can even do it for free!
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There are plenty of garages that do cheaper MOT's, some also do free MOT's with a service.
Exactly! :afro:
However be wary, as some certainly 'look' for extra work :huh:
Yup, and official VW stealers are not exempt from that either. Just think of all the completely un-necessary 'air conditioning' services they offer! :angry: If air con isn't broke, it don't need fixing - verging on scamming, is that! :angry: :angry: :angry: :angry:
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Just think of all the completely un-necessary 'air conditioning' services they offer!
From this statement I'll conclude that since it never stops pi$$ing with rain, or gets above 20c in the Scotland that i can leave my A/c service until next year!
Thats c£40-50 more for mods next month :laugh:
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There are plenty of garages that do cheaper MOT's, some also do free MOT's with a service.
Exactly! :afro:
However be wary, as some certainly 'look' for extra work :huh:
Yup, and official VW stealers are not exempt from that either. Just think of all the completely un-necessary 'air conditioning' services they offer! :angry: If air con isn't broke, it don't need fixing - verging on scamming, is that! :angry: :angry: :angry: :angry:
Interesting you should say that. The one and only time i used a main dealer for an MOT(about 9 years ago), the car came back with a few faults that i don't remember seeing when i checked the car over.
The brake lights stop working, a tiny hole in one of the cv boots, and both front brake hoses 'bulging'.
Not suggesting that my car was 'tampered' with, but especially the cv boot was very 'iffy'.
The main dealers usually put the cars out to another MOT place anyway, so i went back to where they put it in, after doing the work myself.
Something definately didn't smell right, so i'd never use one again for a private MOT.
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Just think of all the completely un-necessary 'air conditioning' services they offer!
From this statement I'll conclude that since it never stops pi$$ing with rain, or gets above 20c in the Scotland that i can leave my A/c service until next year!
Thats c£40-50 more for mods next month :laugh:
Just leave it - seriously. If your air con is working - it does NOT need servicing. It is NOT part of the official service schedule, therefore isn't a requirement for maintaining warranty.
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Just think of all the completely un-necessary 'air conditioning' services they offer!
From this statement I'll conclude that since it never stops pi$$ing with rain, or gets above 20c in the Scotland that i can leave my A/c service until next year!
Thats c£40-50 more for mods next month :laugh:
Just leave it - seriously. If your air con is working - it does NOT need servicing. It is NOT part of the official service schedule, therefore isn't a requirement for maintaining warranty.
Coolio.
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Back on the MOT topic......
I got mine done at the dealer where I bought it, although this was mainly because it was free. I have had good experience with the garage (i.e. courteous, car doesn't come back damaged) and I can sit in the service reception and watch it being done through the glass.
Mind you, I don't get my servicing done there as one my good friends is a VW mastertech.
Last year (with my old car) I got it done at Nationwide Autocentre, purely because they were doing them for £26 with a voucher from the internet. Never again. They are an arrogant bunch of c&nts and tried to charge me over £100 to replace a CV boot (part costs £9 from GSF). I politely told them where they could stick their CV boot and got it done down the road for half the cost.
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I certainly wasn't recommending one of the chains like Nationwide - I was just using them as an example. :wink:
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Just think of all the completely un-necessary 'air conditioning' services they offer!
From this statement I'll conclude that since it never stops pi$$ing with rain, or gets above 20c in the Scotland that i can leave my A/c service until next year!
Thats c£40-50 more for mods next month :laugh:
Just leave it - seriously. If your air con is working - it does NOT need servicing. It is NOT part of the official service schedule, therefore isn't a requirement for maintaining warranty.
I thought the oil in the a/c system was hygroscopic and it was prudent to have it changed out every couple of years?
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All refrigeration systems 'should' be sealed.
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my mot was due last may and just before booking it in at local village garage for £30 i received a letter through the post offering a free mot at gilders, vw dealer in sheffield. i kindly accepted the offer. who says you dont get something for nothing. excellent dealer
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Just think of all the completely un-necessary 'air conditioning' services they offer!
From this statement I'll conclude that since it never stops pi$$ing with rain, or gets above 20c in the Scotland that i can leave my A/c service until next year!
Thats c£40-50 more for mods next month :laugh:
Just leave it - seriously. If your air con is working - it does NOT need servicing. It is NOT part of the official service schedule, therefore isn't a requirement for maintaining warranty.
I thought the oil in the a/c system was hygroscopic and it was prudent to have it changed out every couple of years?
The PAG oil simply mixes with the refrigerant fluid - weather that is 'water-based' - I don't know. But as AudiA8Quattro correctly stated, your air con circuit should be 100% sealed. If they are leaking, or if the compressor has seized, or any other 'mechanical' damage - those are the ONLY times the air con system should need 'servicing'. But if it working fine, then just leave it alone.
Afterall, do you re-gas your fridge or freezer in your kitchen every two years? :tongue:
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While we're on the subject and without starting yet another cambelt thread, I need to get mine done - what should I be looking at for a competitive quote? Should I get the water pump done too and how much on top for that? I've done 64k miles
Search the forum, and dig up the existing thread. Ignore the warning in red pen about not being posted in for more than 30 days. It will be much better to try and keep threads on topic. :wink:
True but prices fluctuate over time, I was just after a quick answer by anyone who may have looked this up recently
Its just as on topic as the MOT posts ;)
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Oh, I personally don't give a monkies one way or the other if threads go off topic! :wink:
I just think that if there is an existing thread, and a 'post' will be on topic, rather than our usual bantering or p!ss taking - then I just think it would be way much more helpful to resurect an old thread, so that all the info is kept in one place! :afro:
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Oh, I personally don't give a monkies one way or the other if threads go off topic! :wink:
I just think that if there is an existing thread, and a 'post' will be on topic, rather than our usual bantering or p!ss taking - then I just think it would be way much more helpful to resurect an old thread, so that all the info is kept in one place!
I will jump down off my high horse then and agree :D
I'm ringing round tomorrow for quotes so I'll find a post and to it that way :afro: