30,000km Service

[BluChris]

Be surprised if you get a quote south of $600 from a dealer. Much less from an independent though. Richmond (Zagame) charged me enough for 30k to send me searching for someone else to look after it. I'll get a quote from them for 45k, but I expect to be suitably unimpressed.

[woofy]

30k is a major one, but paid around $500 plus the brake fluid change at Richmond from memory. I had the 45k not that long ago, it wasn't too bad, but had gone up $100 since Zagames took over.

Also should add, at the time Richmond were the cheapest. Now that Mentone and Bayfords are gone, they have added extra to all their costs. They should realise new buyers and existing will start talking if the services are more than the equivalent VW service, and Skoda will get a rep for being pricey to service. In reality the RS should be cheaper than a GTi, but reality has been the opposite.

[BluChris]

OK looked back through the thread, found 1 member who had the service from a Vic dealer at just over $500 (Mentone, now gone). The rest in Vic were in the range of approx $560 to $720 actual or quoted. Mine was toward the high end of that with no sufficient explanation hence (with a few other issues) I started to look past Richmond.

[BlackOctaviaRS]

Does anybody know if Mobile Car Care are any good? Just got a quote off them for $335, including oil & pollen filter.

[juv3]

$431 at VW Village incl brake fluid and pollen filter etc

Hey,
Does vw village stamp your log book?

[brad]

Hey,
Does vw village stamp your log book?

Why wouldn't they?

Any mech will stamp or sign your log book if they carry out the service as per the book (I always did). The only time I refused was when the client only wanted half the work done but everything ticked off to look good.

[Inego]

VW Village certainly did - unlike Rick Damelians (at that time the Skoda dealer) which did the 15k service.

[bobski]

Just been quoted $565 for the 2yr/30K service by Nepean Motor Group at Penrith.

Hey, how did you go with this mate? I'd like to get it serviced by them for convenience, but had issues with them the first time around.

[woofy]

OK looked back through the thread, found 1 member who had the service from a Vic dealer at just over $500 (Mentone, now gone). The rest in Vic were in the range of approx $560 to $720 actual or quoted. Mine was toward the high end of that with no sufficient explanation hence (with a few other issues) I started to look past Richmond.

Mentone were cheaper, but that was exclusive of brake fluid change at 2 yrs if that coincided. Richmond have always had free courtesy cars, usually the same car or better. From memory I had a wheel alignment as well at the 2yr/30k mark. This year there is the big 4 yr one as well as what still looks like a belt change. Last year it was going to be around2k all up, but everytime I have asked they have promised a set of brake pads and a few other things thrown my way to make up for the for years servicing. I've probably paid for those already with the price hikes Zagames added on.....even the cheapest service which was around $300 odd there (15/45k) has gone up well over a $100 without much explanation why.

[BluChris]

Just had the 45k done at Camberwell VW. Cost just over $400 for the service itself, probably similar to Richmond but Richmond couldn't do for 2 weeks + and Camberwell was next day. Not keen on ordering spare parts unfortunately (but will if have to), but certainly know the mechanicals no problem. Confirmed my suspicion of a slight intercooler pipe leak and replaced the hose. Happy overall with what they did.