Hey all so your aware VW Loughborough are rubbish did not know what I was asking when asked for oil for the Furby, however tesco sell the castrol version at £26 for 4l not bad I thought?

Seems quite pricey when from my local Skoda dealer for £36 I got

5L Quantum Platinum

Air filter

Oil filter

Sump plug

Seems quite pricey when from my local Skoda dealer for £36 I got

5L Quantum Platinum

Air filter

Oil filter

Sump plug

How?

My Skoda dealer wanted £40 inc vat just for the oil!

How?

My Skoda dealer wanted £40 inc vat just for the oil!

I phoned up and asked for a price for all the bits for an oil change service. That wasn't any special deal or anything.

Quantum platinum 1 Litre (ZGB115QLB00510) - £3.37

Oil filter (071115562C) - £5.55

Sump plug (N908132020) - £1.29

From my invoice from S G Smith Skoda in Croydon dated 22/2/2011

@Bond007 - Cheers

ignore the K at the front of those part numbers, they just mean they were stock items

I phoned up and asked for a price for all the bits for an oil change service. That wasn't any special deal or anything.

Fair enough. Nearly worth the effort travelling down to the Lincoln dealer for me!

How can dealers vary their prices so much :S

if the dealer offers you the trade club price then you'll pay the cheaper price, most wont and stick you with full retail

if the dealer offers you the trade club price then you'll pay the cheaper price, most wont and stick you with full retail

I see, well it might have been wise for people to state that in their posts! No point in people sticking up their super trade discount prices if 95% of people wont get it for that :/

Prices I posted are normal retail price.

Prices I posted are normal retail price.

Okay thanks well that still begs the question how you are charged that little for oil when others including myself are quoted £30+ for 5 litres of platinum!

call in to your local tps centre, sure they'd have no problem selling you some oil http://www.thetradepartsspecialists.co.uk/codesearch.php

My skoda dealer in leicester quoted 31.50 for oil and plug? :(

call in to your local tps centre, sure they'd have no problem selling you some oil http://www.thetradepartsspecialists.co.uk/codesearch.php

Just emailed the Leicester TPS branch I'll let you all know the outcome.

just tell them your a trader and call in on the counter, they wont turn you away if they think your a trade customer

just tell them your a trader and call in on the counter, they wont turn you away if they think your a trade customer

Emailed and phoned them no joy! A chap I know at a local motor factors is going to have a

Poke around for me now.