120,000km 2.5TDi service.....wish me luck

[Seano]

....hope I can afford to eat tomorrow night!!

Just dropped the DOKA in for its 120,000km service plus some attention to rocker gasket leaks and a full driveline lube......all 10 hours plus of it.

So I expect to be poor come tomorrow night...

One query....they are planning to replace everything except the water pump. I thought that replacement of the water pump impeller etc. was a critical part of this service?

Not that I want to make this any more expensive!!

[jets]

Are you still on the original pump? If so I would tell them to change it also. According to someone on the T4 forum , the water pump is often the cause of belt breakage.

[GTI_69]

Cambelt and injection pump belt are meant to be done on this service! My mate works at a VW dealership. He is a pro at these pump belts. He works from home also for extra cash. dealers charge a fortune. PM me if anyone needs his details.

[Golf Loon]

Do the waterpump mate. Make sure they put in one with a metal impeller too.

[WEDEL.1]

....hope I can afford to eat tomorrow night!!

Just dropped the DOKA in for its 120,000km service plus some attention to rocker gasket leaks and a full driveline lube......all 10 hours plus of it.

So I expect to be poor come tomorrow night...

One query....they are planning to replace everything except the water pump. I thought that replacement of the water pump impeller etc. was a critical part of this service?

Not that I want to make this any more expensive!!

Should have bought the 2,0L petrol, as I've never paid more than $A500 for a service.

Perhaps you need to come to SA and the Volksfactory for your service??

Maris

[Seano]

OK........in the end the damage came to.....<sob> $2082

Labour was $95 per hour......9.7 hours for the 120K service plus another 1.5 hours to replace rocker gasket, 0.5 hour to replace oil filler pipe and an hour to do fluid change in gearbox and rear diff.

It's the two hours to do the rocker and oil pipe that 'hurt' because I assumed that since they had to remove half the front to get to the timing belt that it'd be a doddle time wise.....the oil filler pipe is surely a ten minute job!! But of course the smallest time period that VW have is 0.5 hour....

The rest was parts, oils (typical major gouge - $120 for 2 'units' of gear oil anyone?) and GST.......

And now it needs a new upper heater pipe and CV boots on LH side...<sigh>

[jets]

Ouch, that would hurt. Did they replace the water pump & coolant?
I don't understand how they can charge extra for replacing the rocker cover gasket. The cover needs to be removed anyway to lock the camshaft for timing belt fitting. The gasket would normally be replaced at this time.
If I were you would challenge this part of the bill.

[Rebuild]

The rest was parts, oils (typical major gouge - $120 for 2 'units' of gear oil anyone?) and GST.......

VW quoted me $51/L for auto gearbox fluid when i wanted to buy some.

I politely refused, of course

[Seano]

Ouch, that would hurt. Did they replace the water pump & coolant?
I don't understand how they can charge extra for replacing the rocker cover gasket. The cover needs to be removed anyway to lock the camshaft for timing belt fitting. The gasket would normally be replaced at this time.
If I were you would challenge this part of the bill.

It bloody did hurt!! I'm down to my last three packs of two minute noodles!

Water pump wasn't done and I don't recall being charged for coolant...

And the gasket has got me jiggered.....but it's done now. Time to move on.

The mad thing is that I'm not totally certain that a local non dealer mechanic would have done the job that much better/cheaper...

[DVR68U]

$2000 wow , well lets hope that its good for another 100,000kms , i only paided $2000 for my van with 6months rego. but i have had to fix alot of stuff myself lol. enjoy your van they are good cars aswell as vans lol
cheers brenton