Hi All

I'm thinking of having a Nexus sat nav retro fitted to my Octy vRS A5.

The Skoda PAC quotes the fitting time as "100 TU", which I thought equated to an hour. However, just got a quote from local dealer for THREE :eek: hours labour to fit this unit. Are they taking the proverbial?

Got a link to the kit please?

You could find that either

1) They havent fitted one before and are being a little cautious

2) They don't want to fit one and are hoping you will go elsewhere.

Got a link to the kit please?

This one quotes a TU of 100 also - ?koda Accessories

Methinks probably a bit of both!

This is the entry in the skoda cat:

?koda Accessories

Am I right about the 100TU do you know? I've heard its something to do with breaking an hour into 100 "Time Units", so 100 TU should be an hour.

Thanks

RoB

I'm guessing some of that 100TU is for taking the head lining down and putting the correct aerial with GPS in it on the roof and then refitting.

Then I'm guessing it removing the old item and surround, making sure all the wiring is in and putting the new unit in, then adding it on via the computer to talk to maxidot.

I can see a couple of hours there due to the headlining and new aerial.

So did I to begin with, but -

Complete with dash mount GPS aerial

Right looking at that my guess would be that the dealer doesnt know that that kit comes with a dash mount aerial. They have probably asked a tech how long to retro fit SAT NAV and they have quoted for the time to drop the head lining etc.

Best bet would be ask them, say on the website it quotes a time of 100 TU which is an hour. (0.50 TU being half an hour)

a time of 100 TU which is an hour. (0.50 TU being half an hour)

:confused: That equals 50 hours :eek:

Thanks to all for taking the time to reply.

I'm lucky enough to live mid-way between two dealers, so I've just been to the other one to see what they'd quote.

First Quote (Dutton Forshaw, Maidstone): £1732.50 for unit, £237.93 for 3 hrs labour. They didn't quote for disk, trim etc but assuming that's standard then total comes out at a tad under £2120.

Second Quote (Sherlodge, Gillingham): £1776 all in - a saving of well over £340!

It certainly pays to shop around!

:confused: That equals 50 hours :eek:

Now i'm confused.

The hour clock is divided into 100 TU.

So 100 TU is an hour so half of that (0.50) is half an hour).

50.0 would be 50 hours.

No offense Lummox, but I hope you don't cost-up service times for a living!

100 TU = 1 hour, but 50 TU = 50 hours???

Someone call Professor Hawking, the space time continuum is having a bad hair day!

By my reckoning, 0.50 TU would be 18 seconds. If anyone can fit a Sat Nav in that time I think I'd happily pay £230 just to see it!

Its a percentage of an hour.

so 100 TU = 100% one hour

so 0.50 = 50% of an hour.

So one TU is....???

Irrelevant

You cant book single units on the 100TU clock. 0.10 is the smallest unit and would work out to approx 6 mins.

Nope, still don't see it.

If 100 TU is 100% of an hour, then 0.5 TU should be 0.5 PERCENT of an hour (18 secs).

50 TU would 50% (i.e. half an hour), since I believe 50 is traditionally half of a hundred?

0.10

0.20

0.30

0.40

0.50

0.60

0.70

0.80

0.90

100

Thats how an hour is broken down at work and how our clocking system works.

0.10

0.20

0.30

0.40

0.50

0.60

0.70

0.80

0.90

100

Thats how an hour is broken down at work and how our clocking system works.

Logically you'd expect it to go 0.90 and then 1.00 and not 100.

Very true.

1.00 is 1 hour.

There are 100TU in an hour, like there are 100 pences in a £1.

Skoda reinvents Decimal.

Every thought of a Garmin? £100, sticks to the window, Robert is your mother's brother.

I'll take your word for it m8, but you've got to admit it has absolutely no basis in logic or mathematics!

It should either be:

0.10, 0.20 .... 0.90, 1.00 (i.e. fractions of an hour)

or:

10, 20 ... 90, 100 (i.e. percentages of an hour)

Whoever designed your timeclock seems to have taken a bit of both!

I wonder what they charged for it? Shouldn't have been more than 10 pounds and 50 cents if you ask me....

Skoda reinvents Decimal.

Every thought of a Garmin? £100, sticks to the window, Robert is your mother's brother.

Its not Skoda, every trade that uses time will charge like this. My wife is going div as she timed up jobs like this at her last job.

All good fun though, my brain is hurting and the wife is angry.

ZS - Thought about Garmin, TomTom etc but wanted the "factory fitted" look.

Costs ten times as much and (knowing my luck) will probably direct me through the nearest corn field first time I use it, but that's the price you pay