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Hi all,

I've taken my car for an MOT and the people doing it are saying that it's just failed on the following:

Both head lights out of allignment
One of the rear coils is fractured (they said a bit has broken off)

They want £250 to put this right.

The issue I've got is that my car has recently had a full diagnosis and inspection at a VW dealership and this wasn't picked up.

I don't get how the head lights could have gone out of allignment on their own and I don't get how VW could have missed the coil being fractured.

Unless it was done deliberately by the **** garage that assaulted me recently.

Anyone heard of this coil thing before? I'm very surprised that VW wouldn't have noticed this.
 
Guru said:
Hi all,

I've taken my car for an MOT and the people doing it are saying that it's just failed on the following:

Both head lights out of allignment
One of the rear coils is fractured (they said a bit has broken off)

They want £250 to put this right.

The issue I've got is that my car has recently had a full diagnosis and inspection at a VW dealership and this wasn't picked up.

I don't get how the head lights could have gone out of allignment on their own and I don't get how VW could have missed the coil being fractured.

Unless it was done deliberately by the **** garage that assaulted me recently.

Anyone heard of this coil thing before? I'm very surprised that VW wouldn't have noticed this.
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I had this on my old Astra, the very top part snapped off. Cant imagine that garage would have done that :s
 
Head light alignment shouldn't take them more than 5 mins a side & changing a rear coil should be done within half an hour so ;

1 hours labour & the price of the coil.
 
They said they have to do both coils at the same time, which I guess makes sense.

They only offer a free re-test withing 24 hours which I find a bit ridiculous.

Head lights I can probably do myself.
 
Well coil springs cracking & breaking is a regular occurrence these days as they make them out of monkey metal, Changing the pair is the way forward on a decent motor so say an hour & a halfs labour & the price of 2 coils.

250 quid doesn't sound to bad if they are fitting gen parts.
 
I've got a break down of the price which makes it seem a little more reasonable...but I'm still irritated that VW didn't pick it up...


£78.70 per side for the coils

£30.95 for alligning the coils

£11.95 x 2 for the lights

£212.25 total

Not sure I'd save a great deal getting it done else where to be honest. Considering the hassle invoiced in organising it all.
 
latercomer2 said:
Aligning the coils? Presumably thats fitting of the coils....
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I think they mean tracking to be honest.

But in all honesty the tracking is slightly out because I've just had two new tyres fitted and couldn't afford the allignment at the time having just spunked £1000 on this car in the last 2 weeks.
 
It doesn't look like a bad price in all honesty - so long as that "aligning the coils" really is tracking, as if that's the labour for installing the springs the parts themselves should only be in the region of £30-£45 each (usually)
 
Guru said:
£30.95 for alligning the coils.
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i would ask if that is just tracking or a 4 wheel alingment.
if its just tracking tell them not to bother and take it somewhere that will do a 4 wheel alingment (pref using a hunter machine) i had mine done by merityre, they gave me the printout of before and after.
http://www.merityre.co.uk/wheel_alignment.htm
i found mine was out after replaceing the springs and a tracking ajustment didnt fix it, so i ended up getting a 4 wheel alingment done (this includes tracking so i ended up paying for this to be done twice)

as for the total price for the parts and fitting it looks reasonable.
 
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