Service plan

[simonpolly]

Thats £720 over three years ,i should hope it does cover alot more.Standard £250 covers everything that you would expect from a normal service regime over the three years.

[Rolfe]

And I'm going with, take a hike VW, Andrew at the end of the road will look after it, and there's even a bus stop outside his garage where I can catch a bus to work.

Rolfe.

[keelaw]

And I'm going with, take a hike VW, Andrew at the end of the road will look after it, and there's even a bus stop outside his garage where I can catch a bus to work.

Rolfe.

i hope andrew has a VW dealer stamp!  worth it for that FVWSH even if you come to sell after 5-7 years.  if you're gonna run it into the ground then fair enough, but never say never.

[Rolfe]

And I'm going with, take a hike VW, Andrew at the end of the road will look after it, and there's even a bus stop outside his garage where I can catch a bus to work.

Rolfe.

i hope andrew has a VW dealer stamp!  worth it for that FVWSH even if you come to sell after 5-7 years.  if you're gonna run it into the ground then fair enough, but never say never.

Don't care.  My Peugeot had a full Peugeot dealer service history until I moved here, when it was 10 years old.  It was (figuratively) like a new car after he'd finished with it.

Rolfe.

[VWKev]

And I'm going with, take a hike VW, Andrew at the end of the road will look after it, and there's even a bus stop outside his garage where I can catch a bus to work.

Rolfe.

i hope andrew has a VW dealer stamp!  worth it for that FVWSH even if you come to sell after 5-7 years.  if you're gonna run it into the ground then fair enough, but never say never.

Don't care.  My Peugeot had a full Peugeot dealer service history until I moved here, when it was 10 years old.  It was (figuratively) like a new car after he'd finished with it.

Rolfe.

It may have been like a new car after he had finished with it, but a prospective buyer wont take your word for it, a FSH is what people look for. Personally If you were selling your GTi without one, I wouldnt entertain it.

[FamilyDub]

And I'm going with, take a hike VW, Andrew at the end of the road will look after it, and there's even a bus stop outside his garage where I can catch a bus to work.

Rolfe.

i hope andrew has a VW dealer stamp!  worth it for that FVWSH even if you come to sell after 5-7 years.  if you're gonna run it into the ground then fair enough, but never say never.

Don't care.  My Peugeot had a full Peugeot dealer service history until I moved here, when it was 10 years old.  It was (figuratively) like a new car after he'd finished with it.

Rolfe.

It may have been like a new car after he had finished with it, but a prospective buyer wont take your word for it, a FSH is what people look for. Personally If you were selling your GTi without one, I wouldnt entertain it.

+1.

Indy for repairs, mods or ad hoc stuff, but I still continue to use a franchised VW stealer, purely to get the all-important stamp in the book.

[Teutonic_Tamer]

if its any help i decided against the £250 service plan as it didn't cover stuff like brakes, wiper blades etc etc.  so i went for the £20 a month plan which covers everything and is a yearly service/10,000 miles service.

But then you are stuck with whatever tyres came factory fitted - fine if it came with PS2s (but that is highly unlikely), but not good if it came with ShyteMaxxs!

[gizzywizzy]

And I'm going with, take a hike VW, Andrew at the end of the road will look after it, and there's even a bus stop outside his garage where I can catch a bus to work.

Rolfe.

i hope andrew has a VW dealer stamp!  worth it for that FVWSH even if you come to sell after 5-7 years.  if you're gonna run it into the ground then fair enough, but never say never.

Don't care.  My Peugeot had a full Peugeot dealer service history until I moved here, when it was 10 years old.  It was (figuratively) like a new car after he'd finished with it.

Rolfe.

It may have been like a new car after he had finished with it, but a prospective buyer wont take your word for it, a FSH is what people look for. Personally If you were selling your GTi without one, I wouldnt entertain it.

+1.

Indy for repairs, mods or ad hoc stuff, but I still continue to use a franchised VW stealer, purely to get the all-important stamp in the book.

I seriously believe that with the money you are going to be spending on this tremendous car you really do need it serviced by a bona fide VW service centre,  you will never recoup the full value if it is not vwfsh stamped.  I think you really should re-consider only for your own benefit.

[ub7rm]

And I'm going with, take a hike VW, Andrew at the end of the road will look after it, and there's even a bus stop outside his garage where I can catch a bus to work.

Rolfe.

i hope andrew has a VW dealer stamp!  worth it for that FVWSH even if you come to sell after 5-7 years.  if you're gonna run it into the ground then fair enough, but never say never.

Don't care.  My Peugeot had a full Peugeot dealer service history until I moved here, when it was 10 years old.  It was (figuratively) like a new car after he'd finished with it.

Rolfe.

It may have been like a new car after he had finished with it, but a prospective buyer wont take your word for it, a FSH is what people look for. Personally If you were selling your GTi without one, I wouldnt entertain it.

+1.

Indy for repairs, mods or ad hoc stuff, but I still continue to use a franchised VW stealer, purely to get the all-important stamp in the book.

I seriously believe that with the money you are going to be spending on this tremendous car you really do need it serviced by a bona fide VW service centre,  you will never recoup the full value if it is not vwfsh stamped.  I think you really should re-consider only for your own benefit.

Another point is goodwill out of warranty.  Should the worst happen and say your gearbox explodes a year out of warranty, a VW service history will stand you in good stead for getting goodwill.  An indy's won't get you squat.

Whenever your car goes into the stealers they automatically apply any updates and recalls.  Particularly important for a brand new model.  Everything from the central locking to the engine is computer controlled and as niggles and bugs pop up from being in service, new revisions of the software are released and passed on to the dealer network.  If you service the car out of the dealer network you won't get these.  Worth thinking about.

[keelaw]

perhaps this Andrew fella offers "optional extras"?   


(j/k)