VW Main dealer servicing

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Hey guys,

Anyone else seen this new offer from VW?

Basically, provided the garage in question is within 5 miles of your local VW main dealer, VW will match their prices on servicing and repairs, as long as the price includes the use of genuine VW parts.

Now, this appears to be an absolutely brilliant deal. I can only hope other manufacturers will follow suit.
 
I fear this merely sounds better than it really is...

5 miles isn't that big a radius and a lot of small garages won't use genuine parts in their average quotes.

Even so, all it'll do is knock VW labour prices down a few quid.
 
I found recently that Renault have dropped their prices a lot perhaps to compete with indy garage, but also their parts prices have fallen a lot! probably due to motorfactors

I was also very surprised that the cheapest place to MOT my '92 Clio 16v was a Renault main dealer, at £26.99. Even the replacement wiper blades that it needed to pass came in at under £10 for the pair (fitted).

Can't really knock that - though I do like using indys :)
 
divine` said:
I fear this merely sounds better than it really is...

5 miles isn't that big a radius and a lot of small garages won't use genuine parts in their average quotes.

Even so, all it'll do is knock VW labour prices down a few quid.
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All you do is ring a backstreet place, get them to quote with VW parts and jobs a good'n.
 
That's a pretty good deal, nearly as good as the BMW servicing offer (if they still do it, it was £199 for 3 years iirc) or the offer I took from audi for a service and maintainnce package.

Seems to be a trend in main dealers at the moment offering excellent servicing deals.
 
Dolph said:
That's a pretty good deal, nearly as good as the BMW servicing offer (if they still do it, it was £199 for 3 years iirc) or the offer I took from audi for a service and maintainnce package.

Seems to be a trend in main dealers at the moment offering excellent servicing deals.
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Is that the variable service or something like that, my first service came to £450!

What package did you get?
 
zain said:
Is that the variable service or something like that, my first service came to £450!

What package did you get?
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I pay about £30 a month for a full service and maintainance package including tyres. The service only package was only about £10 a month, the service and all consumables bar tyres was about £20 a month.

Considering the cost of the services, and the tyres, it made complete sense to me to take it, it's fixed cost motoring at it's finest.
 
Dolph said:
I pay about £30 a month for a full service and maintainance package including tyres. The service only package was only about £10 a month, the service and all consumables bar tyres was about £20 a month.

Considering the cost of the services, and the tyres, it made complete sense to me to take it, it's fixed cost motoring at it's finest.
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Over a 3 year period piling your mileage up that is quite a deal, never knew about this one.
 
Continental contisport contact 3's, which are what's on the car as OEM fitment. I've certainly got no complaints about them at all.
 
Dolph said:
I pay about £30 a month for a full service and maintainance package including tyres. The service only package was only about £10 a month, the service and all consumables bar tyres was about £20 a month.
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So £120 pa covers your tyres. That seems like a very good deal, I don't suppose they last overly long on the S3 ;)
 
Dogbreath said:
So £120 pa covers your tyres. That seems like a very good deal, I don't suppose they last overly long on the S3 ;)
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Well, I used to go through a set on the front of the civic in less than 10k, the S3 seems to be fairing a little better so far.

But yeah, it's a very good deal, especially when Audi want about £175 each for the tyres...
 
Thats an amazing deal Dolph. I guess offset a bit by the depreciation associated with a brand new car purchase, but still, as you say its completely fixed cost.
 
I can only hope Honda jump on the bandwagon soon. Dealer servicing and parts cost for a CTR is ridiculous.
 
Because VWs mainly use long life oils. The Dealerships were losing money as the customers would never visit. Any problems out of warrenty etc would be done at independants and such like.

I can only assume this is to get some custom back, even if they are not making as much as usual
 
Jez said:
Thats an amazing deal Dolph. I guess offset a bit by the depreciation associated with a brand new car purchase, but still, as you say its completely fixed cost.
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The S3 doesn't really have a depreciation problem either... Which is nice :)

Depreciation varies dramatically from car to car, but a quick glance at autotrader shows very little drop in prices for 6 month old S3's :)
 
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