Skoda New Dealers - NSW

[brad]

Was having a look at the Skoda Website - interesting to see we are down to just 3 metro dealers at St. Leonards, Blacktown & Penrith (Blacktown & Penrith seem relatively close together).

Of further interest though was the proliferation of regional dealers.
Lismore, Coffs Harbour, Port Maquarie, Newcastle, Gosford, Orange, Dubbo, Wollongong, Moss Vale, Albury. I hope they all do OK.

Has anyone had anything to do with Allan Mackay Autos/Skoda in Moss Vale? It appears he does Peugeot & Volvo already, so he might be worth a try for servicing. Quick rip up Maquarie Pass before & after wouldn't hurt either.

Is anyone aware of any service-only Skoda centres?

[dazag]

I bought my Skoda through Steve Jarvin, but they're shutting up shop with Skoda, and really I wasn't overally impressed with their service department anyway - bit of a long story
I have just had my RS serviced by the guys here in Newcastle, and if the service i got was anything to go buy, they will do very well!!
It's the little things as well as attention to detail that really have an impact......
- Free courtesy car (another Skoda Octavia wagon)
- replaced the number plate surrounds ( previous steve Jarvin ones with the Nissan part blacked out - very 2nd hand in my opinion ) with some very nice looking Newcastle Skoda ones - free of charge
- washed & detailed the RS
- Fault found the tow bar problem - ECU not programmed and a blown fuse - SJ told me it was a Control Unit issue ( I'm still yet to connect the trailer up to confirm all is good ) but the guys at Newcastle did mention it might not be the correct control unit fitted as the only way to get the lights to work without tripping a globe caution light was using the North American code, but I have to check it on my trailer, as they were only using a load box to test with.
And then of course the guys did a good job on the service, and phoned me as soon as it was ready to pick up.
If anyone in Newcastle or surrounding areas needs their Skoda serviced, then chat to Ashley at the Audi/Skoda service centre, you wont be disappointed!!

[Antiplastix]

They gave you free no. plate surrounds with their advertising on, Wow lucky you. The first thing I do when I buy a car is rip all the dealers stickers and advertising material off. They normaly have to pay for advertising so why give it to them for free.

[bobski]

They gave you free no. plate surrounds with their advertising on, Wow lucky you. The first thing I do when I buy a car is rip all the dealers stickers and advertising material off. They normaly have to pay for advertising so why give it to them for free.

Yeah I usually do the same thing with the stickers. Though with the number plate holders, I just colour the white writing in with permanent marker. But haven't yet got around to doing it with the skoda out of sheer laziness.

[K1W1]

They gave you free no. plate surrounds with their advertising on, Wow lucky you.

I get really pissed off when dealers do that at service time. It's my car not theirs and what I have or don't have on it is my perogative.
I have told dealers on the drive way that I want the plate surrounds and their stickers removed before I will pay for the service before now. Taking another dealers promotional material off and replacing it with their own without asking first is straight out vandalism imo.
I don't have a problem with dealers putting stickers and things on a new car, that's a bit of advertising for them but if I deceide to take them off they stay off.

[dodgey]

I was lucky. I just told the dealers not to put the plates on, and they set the plates aside for me. So, there's no dealer promotional material on my car at all. Just Skoda ones

I get really pissed off when dealers do that at service time. It's my car not theirs and what I have or don't have on it is my perogative.
I have told dealers on the drive way that I want the plate surrounds and their stickers removed before I will pay for the service before now. Taking another dealers promotional material off and replacing it with their own without asking first is straight out vandalism imo.
I don't have a problem with dealers putting stickers and things on a new car, that's a bit of advertising for them but if I deceide to take them off they stay off.

[dazag]

Holy **** guys, so anti dealership yet you expect freakin huge deals and gold star aftersales service. Next you'll be pulling the Skoda & Octavia badges off your cars as Skoda dont pay you to advertise their vehicles either.......... time to go clean skin fellas?? Or god forbid if you pull the Skoda badge off and put a VW badge on - kinda like the Holden guys putting a Chev badge on to replace the Holden lion

I hate stickers, so i agree there, but a tastefully small little logo that you can hardly notice on a number plate surround I have no problems with. All I was saying is that it was better then what SJ Skoda put on the vehicle, and the RS looks better for it. If I was stressed about dealership logo's I would have bought my own surrounds. Now if i had my own surrounds on and the dealership put theirs on, then there would be a drama!!

[dodgey]

Now that's an idea... I was thinking of modifying my Skoda badge on my car Wouldn't put a VW badge on it though, Already had one of those and I sold it to get a Skoda.... Maybe I can put an MPS or TRD badge on it or something... LOL

In my case, they only had a day to get my car ready, so I don't think they got around to put any stickers on it. As for the plates surrounds, they already knew I would be changing my plates so they didn't give me any... As yet I have not changed it It was more that I didn't want them to put the plates on in case they drilled it in just like on my old GTI, where they drilled into the bumper and the foam behind it, and on an angle too

I like my dealership enough that I do expect Gold Star aftersales service and so far they have not done any less

Holy **** guys, so anti dealership yet you expect freakin huge deals and gold star aftersales service. Next you'll be pulling the Skoda & Octavia badges off your cars as Skoda dont pay you to advertise their vehicles either.......... time to go clean skin fellas?? Or god forbid if you pull the Skoda badge off and put a VW badge on - kinda like the Holden guys putting a Chev badge on to replace the Holden lion

I hate stickers, so i agree there, but a tastefully small little logo that you can hardly notice on a number plate surround I have no problems with. All I was saying is that it was better then what SJ Skoda put on the vehicle, and the RS looks better for it. If I was stressed about dealership logo's I would have bought my own surrounds. Now if i had my own surrounds on and the dealership put theirs on, then there would be a drama!!

[Gaz]

Lennock's in Canberra put a little "Lennock" sticker on the paint of the cars they sell. Usually just above the badge on the back of the car, so we have loads of people driving around in "Lennock Golf" or "Lennock Octavia" cars.
I'm pretty sure they don't do that for the Jags they sell...

[brad]

Can anyone remember the Chevy dealer Stack? They used to drill holes in the car & rivet a badge on.

tynan Motors like to stick their Tynan badge onto the paintwork. Mostly it looks OK but you get a few were the installer has no idea about proportion or accuracy.