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Tiger
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15th Apr 03 at 17:26   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
£352 on a P-reg Passat

Didnt do the Cambelt or anything - just oil change, oil filter, air filter, screen wash, washers, glow plugs, sidelight bulb, brake fluid change and think that's about it!!

I told my mate they seen him coming.

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[Edited on 15-04-2003 by Tiger]
MarkM
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15th Apr 03 at 17:29   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
rip off...shouldnt have been that much!

Most ive paid for a service is £150 with ford.
Marc
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15th Apr 03 at 17:32   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
u pay for the badge on ur bonnet m8...
Tiger
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15th Apr 03 at 17:35   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
Well, it aint my car its my mate but i told him they must be laughing all the way to the bank - Volkswagon parts must have only come to £50-£60? thats £300 pound labour and one weeks wages roughly

[Edited on 15-04-2003 by Tiger]
MarkM
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15th Apr 03 at 17:36   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
Volkswagon are meant to be expensive..never thought that much though!
Tiger
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15th Apr 03 at 17:37   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
I about fell off my chair when he said how much - i really thought he was taking the pisss
Steve
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15th Apr 03 at 17:39   View Garage View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
my mate who works at volkswagon ses all new VWs are rubbish and unreliable and wuldnt own one
Tiger
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15th Apr 03 at 17:41   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
I think they have the best build quality of any affordable car on the market by a long shot - As for the reliability, i couldnt really say cause ive never had one.
Marc
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15th Apr 03 at 17:44   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
I think labours £60 p/hr.
Tiger
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15th Apr 03 at 17:45   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
Thats still 5 hours labour!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Do they only employ people with one arm?
mattyboy199
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15th Apr 03 at 17:50   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
I paid £95 for :

New plugs
Brake bleed
Oil & filter change
Air filter change
Coolant change
& whenever else is in a standard service !
Munchie
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15th Apr 03 at 17:52   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
£275 for me sisters 1.0 VW Polo on a Y reg.....WHICH IS FOR SALE IF ANYBODY IS INTRESTED!!!!!!
AJP
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15th Apr 03 at 17:57   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
I got a R polo and phoned up VW to get a service but nearly died about the cost. I wanted to keep it all VWSH but i will sacrifice that and take it to my mates garage.

Still doen to very high standard but at a fraction of the cost.

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ainsley_brader
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15th Apr 03 at 22:08   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
£50 to 60 just for the parts you reckon?

Try pricing up 4 heater plugs at vw

Ains
Munchie
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15th Apr 03 at 22:44   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
y?how much is it!?lol
someone
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15th Apr 03 at 23:04   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
vw wanted to charge someone i know something like £1500 for a new ecu (or something). which ended up being fixed else where for £50.
paul_spurrell
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16th Apr 03 at 06:58   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
new vw's = crap
Steve
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16th Apr 03 at 07:02   View Garage View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
see paul knows the score
paul_spurrell
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aye
Phil Tolley
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16th Apr 03 at 10:45   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
I work for VW.... true, reliability isn't great anymore.... build quality generally isn't too bad though.
carl moffatt
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16th Apr 03 at 11:08   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
Cant beat older VW's for reliablility. Mines 23 years old and starts up first time, everytime.

I'd say the build quality in newer VW's is great. Compare it to citreon, vauxhall etc where You just find too many squeaks and rattles. In all the newer shape vw's that i have been in, everything is sturdy and put togther how it should be.

Promlems with the newer shape vws is that engine wise, you have to take te whole engine out near enough if you need to change something. You have to take a full section of plastic out just to change a headlamp.
Gambit
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16th Apr 03 at 11:10   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
they where gonna charge me £200 for a full service inc timing belt change on mine

still got it done elsewhere cheaper.

new vw's = lot better than most other crap out there
Steve
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16th Apr 03 at 11:11   View Garage View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
new VWs are deffo unreliable two people have confirmed this who work there
S1MON
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16th Apr 03 at 11:48   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
thats alot of fin money for a standard service thats the germans for you

 
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