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1st Longlife service cost

Posted: Tue Nov 02, 2010 7:53 am
by tony4147
My 1.4tsi is due it's first longlife service at 19K miles 15 months old. I have been quoted £263 from one dealer which seems a rip off, what have other owners paid for a longlife service?
and are there any good independents in the Manchester/Stockport/Cheshire areas?

£263 for an oil change is a joke.

Re: 1st Longlife service cost

Posted: Tue Nov 02, 2010 8:57 am
by trix
have you tried ringing round other dealers for a price to get your local dealer to match?

S

Re: 1st Longlife service cost

Posted: Tue Nov 02, 2010 9:12 am
by maisbitt
Couldn't tell you about TSI prices, but for 2.0TDIs, one dealer wants £199, and another one 6 miles away wants £142 - definitely worth shopping around. Maybe even to a Seat/Skoda dealer, they're all VAG parts being used.

Re: 1st Longlife service cost

Posted: Tue Nov 02, 2010 10:12 am
by tony4147
I have found another dealer, £145 with out pollen filter and £169 with pollen filter, I'm happy with those prices. :) :) :)

Re: 1st Longlife service cost

Posted: Tue Nov 02, 2010 12:24 pm
by maisbitt
There's around £70 of parts in that 1st service (5 units of oil, oil filter and sump plug washer), and it's an hours job - I think £80 - £90 an hour for labour is more than enough. If you've got a lot of dealers in your area it's always worth phoning around.

Re: 1st Longlife service cost

Posted: Tue Nov 02, 2010 7:36 pm
by Shaun
Good old Longlife services eh, on my edition 30 on T&D I paid £99 for first year and £115 for the second year, LL for me would have cost far more, the best thing to do is to ring around and get cheap quotes and get VW to match, i get quotes from Skoda dealers who tend to be less

Oh and when buying new as a deal clincher always get at least the first service free, if not 2nd too :yes: , that's what i do and they always go for it, i got 2 free services with mine this time :clap:

Re: 1st Longlife service cost

Posted: Tue Nov 02, 2010 7:45 pm
by samdub
On that note I'm pleased I managed to get the '£250' 3yrs servicing thrown into the deal!
Quite a hefty price for a service in comparison to my mk2 golf... 25 quid and an hour of my time!

Re: 1st Longlife service cost

Posted: Tue Nov 02, 2010 7:56 pm
by Shaun
samdub wrote:On that note I'm pleased I managed to get the '£250' 3yrs servicing thrown into the deal!
Quite a hefty price for a service in comparison to my mk2 golf... 25 quid and an hour of my time!
i could of had that but they gave me GAP free too :D

Re: 1st Longlife service cost

Posted: Tue Nov 02, 2010 8:00 pm
by Chungster
must rename you to "king of blagging freebies" ;)

Re: 1st Longlife service cost

Posted: Tue Nov 02, 2010 8:07 pm
by Shaun
Chungster wrote:must rename you to "king of blagging freebies" ;)
Wait till you hear how much my third set of R 19" alloys cost :lol: :clap:

Re: 1st Longlife service cost

Posted: Tue Nov 02, 2010 8:14 pm
by Chungster
OFFS man lol do u pay for anything :D :D :D

are they genuine tho?? haha

Re: 1st Longlife service cost

Posted: Tue Nov 02, 2010 8:20 pm
by trix
*ahem..topic..ahem*

Re: 1st Longlife service cost

Posted: Tue Nov 02, 2010 8:40 pm
by Shaun
trix wrote:*ahem..topic..ahem*
Quit spamming the thread









:lol:

Re: 1st Longlife service cost

Posted: Tue Nov 02, 2010 8:54 pm
by chrisyboyc
Hi i called my dealer they quoted £129 and the local dealer who quoted £169 As my dealer is a 45 mile round trip i called the local one again and asked them to price match which they have Why the difference? its still a long life service still cheaper than my last Audi

Re: 1st Longlife service cost

Posted: Wed Nov 03, 2010 8:17 pm
by wongy008
samdub wrote:On that note I'm pleased I managed to get the '£250' 3yrs servicing thrown into the deal!
Quite a hefty price for a service in comparison to my mk2 golf... 25 quid and an hour of my time!
depends on the mileage you do surely

ive just had my car serviced and it cost a total of £170. the mileage was only 4600 and i do intend to service it evey year