If you cover 42k miles (14k miles per year) in 3 years then you might have some scope to save on your services. You probably will only get 2 long life services in during that time, and the second one will be significantly more expensive than the first – maybe about £200 for the first one and closer to £300 for the second that’ll include air filter and pollen filter changes, perhaps even a brake fluid change. Although variable in when the car asks to be taken in, I used to see about 18k miles between services when they first brought out the longlife regime and positively encouraged it’s use for my 1st MK5 Golf. I’d ring the dealership and ask for a price for 1st and 2nd variable service and then compare. If it was my car and there was next to nowt in it then I’d go with the fixed servicing, but I don’t think £576 is massively good value. It’ll save you money vs the sticker price, but not a hell of a lot – this pack was as low as £249 when buying through solutions and £299 without using VW finance literally months ago. I see that the Golf finance APR has gone up to 6.6% from 6.0% too.
