Service Due

[virginVWman]

Quick question, unsure what to do here. GTD is a year old, 18,500 happy miles later and i am due a service along with an oil change. However, here is my issue, i have an R coming in March which is 9/10 weeks away, do i need a service or should i postpone it to VW to carry out at there own expense as its £150.00 i could do without spending seeing as im punting it on a PX. So should i just cancel the service or do i need to have it done? Thoughts please. Fraser

[topher]

Pretty sure your warranty is void if you don't keep up with the service schedule. Can they not do you a better deal than £150 since you're trading up after 12 months?

[monkeyhanger]

The "tolerance" is supposed to be 1000 miles or a month I believe,so unless you had some extenuating circumstances like your local dealerships within an hours drive couldn't fit you in for 2 months, I couldn't see there being a legitimate reason to go without a service, especially as you're already on longlife and want to take it even further.

£150 for your first longlife service seems a bargain, I paid more than that for my MK5 GT TDI in 2006.

Are you sure it'll be 9 or 10 weeks away? Last check on mine (prior to adding Pretorias) saw that it had slipped from estimated BW4 to estimated BW8.

[virginVWman]

I rang vwcs and  its bw4 so id like to think id get it 1st march as the salesman said. Even end of march still paying 150 for a service annoys me but ah well. I better just get service done dnt wnt them to give me abuse later for it pr for them to be difficult when it comes to the r so

[virginVWman]

Could help if I count, more like 12 ha

[Buggaluggs]

  After over 20 years in the motor trade in the aftersales side(escaped 8 years ago) I find it rather sad to read that it is obviously ok to buy on desire and then complain about appropriate and timely maintenance. What is the matter with people, 30k for a car and 50 quid to service it! Makes me glad I can now buy new and not rely on some cheaply/compromised used car that you couldn't be bothered to maintain correctly.

[virginVWman]

Lol when did I say I wasnt maintaining it, cars like brand new. All I was  stating was its pretty annoying having to service a new car for 150 when in a little of 2 months im havi g a new car when they are going to get the full benefit of it selling it on to some punter. Chill my man

[caprigreen]

Its a mind set thing, when you have your new car you will not have to pay anything for 12 months,  think of it that way ?

[monkeyhanger]

It's weird how much your perception changes on your current car when a new one is on its way. I don't even think of my GTD as my car any more.

When my GTD got clattered 2 weeks ago tomorrow it wasn't as big a deal to me as I thought it might be, the things really pissing me off about the incident right now is the other side's reluctance to inform their insurer about the incident.

[JonnyG]

Personally I'd get it serviced on time ... you owe it to the next owner and to the dealer. 

If they've already given you a part-ex price I'd be surprised if it didn't allow for the car being serviced on time.  They may possibly want to renegotiate the part-ex price if they find you've ignored the first service.