vw done it again

[Bronze MK1 Cab]

Never heard them called 'stealerships' before     

[hairyarse]

Never heard them called 'stealerships' before? ? ?

REALLY?!!

LOVE your bronze cab by the way - looks the bo**ocks!

[Overseer]

carrie.. i'm very surprised they missed the rear disks... i've found (and since seen from friends with VWs) that the stealership I work next door to -are- good at finding "problems" with cars.. but they do it to a fault and pile on excess and often unnecessary work.

however.. i will say that (maybe because i've been in there so many times) their walk-in parts department is always very helpful  (back door) BUT the (shiny front door) sales/'aftercare' part of the business lets them down in a major way. the sales staff are a bunch of grumpy miserable so n so's. I expect they have quota's or something to meet..

i now use a local independent VW specialist.. which happens to be run by two VAG trained guys.. the main owner guy 'took' the chief mechanic with him when he started the business... they both originally came from richardson's seat dealership in wellington.. the dealership went bust sometime last year...  these guys are growing and growing.

they're really top guys. its really great to be able to talk to the guy that actually worked on your car

i also find you need less notice to get into a local specialist.. unless its someone nationally recognised like TSR who i have to see about my alarm since they're the local Toad alarm people.

thus far the specialist has been able to accommodate me and my friend (who has a 4motion) on the next day after we've called without fail..

[marcogolfo]

took car to vw in edinburgh with a clonking problem.  It came back and they reckoned that there was absolutely nothing wrong with it and that the clonking noise was the fact that a back exhaust bracket had disintegrated.  Even though i had managed to tie the rear box up with zip ties to the same standard that the bracket was doing.  I knew that there was no way that that was, what was making the noise.  Turns out It was a f**ked engine mount.  I asked them how they managed to miss that the engine was trying to climb out when it was in gear.  They said to be honest i should think about getting a new golf because mine was now 17 years old and that they dont even really entertain cars older than ten years.  They didnt want to look too hard because at 70 quid an hour it could have soon gotten up to a lot of money.  Gave me loads of sh!t and i  just told him that if it wasnt for the earlier models of the gti then they wouldnt be singing about the mk5 and that he probably wouldnt have a job! The guy was totally ended
  

[carrie]

overseer i was shocked they never mentioned the rear disks, when i said to them well you missed the rear disks, they said oh, well its not in the report?

marco, yeah as if they need to look hard to find a broken mount.

[tinman]

if were slagging off VW stealerships try this.

my valver many year ago had a serious overheating problem. nothing was obvious.

car went to VW - they reckoned it needed a new engine @ ?1500. that wasnt going to happen so the car then went for a few days a mechanic we knew. a week later the car was returned with a ?100 bill for a new water pump.

the overheating was due to the fact that water pump had no splines on it and so wasnt swishing the water around. so much for the "cracked block" guess from VW.

[gibby]

hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahah lmfao

I think that just about tells it all with that last story 

I guess there was quite a bit of teeth sucking and mentions of "ooh that's gonna cost ya"   

[carrie]

looks like a car, thats been driven by a boy racer 
(aka advert)