Hi All

My Golf TDI recently failed the MOT big style and within 2 days I bought a black Fabia VRS Mk1 the expensive way from a dealer. I have owned it just 3 weeks and have now been offered two years service and two years MOT fees for £299. The car is a 55 plate with 48K miles showing and was serviced with a cambelt change as part of the deal. I only do a low mileage of about 8K per year so is this deal good for me. I am not too worried about keeping up dealer servicing as the history is not full Skoda anyway, but any help would be appreciated.

Thanks

Hi and welcome aboard.

Hi and welcome.

I just bought a Fab VRS SE from a dealer. I collect it on friday after they do the cambelt, service and MOT. Also included that 2 year servicing/MOT deal thingy. Having spent years of sorting the bits and bobs on my cars/vans, crossing of fingers when i know i've got a dodgy something or the other, i bit the bullet and went with a motor that:-

1) I know will be reliable when i really need it to be,

2) will allow me to have weekends free of scraping my a*rse all over cold dank tarmac doing another fix, and

3) be confident when it (if ever) comes to selling her on, the car's got a FSSH.

...so really down to you i suppose - it's the first time i've ever bought anything relatively new (the most i've spent before was about £1400.00 lol) and i was taken on the deal BECAUSE the 2 year service pack and add-ons were include. My months of waiting for deals around Xmas time paid off

Hope this helps,

rob

Hi both and thanks for the welcomes.

Rob I completely understand what you're saying but I just wondered if going to a small independent might be the better option as I don't have a FSSH to keep up; it does have FSH though. I've heard of a guy in Notts who specialises in VAG tdi motors and gets good recommendations.

Lucky you getting the service deal in with the car but I didn't even know about it when I bought the car. There have been developments today which might affect me staying with this dealer anyway. When I bought the car we agreed that the interior was valeted to get the white seats clean and they are having problems with it after two attempts. I am due to collect tomorrow and it doesn't sound like they have it sorted so I'm not happy. Maybe my fault for refusing it when I picked it up but you get carried away with the excitement plus it was a dull day and it didn't look that bad.

Anyway maybe more on that later, but thanks and I hope you are enjoying the SE.

David

Hi.

Turn on the waterworks (metaphorically speaking!). Let them know how much you've been after that particular model, turning down deals elsewhere because you'd heard so many good things about that dealer and that you feel somewhat let down by what you've experienced. Afterall, you've got that "special journey you've promised your sick grandmother over xmas and she's soooo looking fwd to it..."

Next, go for the killer: If they really haven't brought your seats up to scratch, you can:

1) try back out of the deal (google info on yr legal/statutory rights for retracting on your contract of sale - 'cooling off peroid' or something like that)

2) dig your heals in (risking you becoming a 'pain-in-the-a*se' customer by them all behind the desk) and insist they improve the clean of the seats or

3) Politely acknowledge their efforts, but suggest they offer you something as gesture (don't accept a couple of furry dice lol) to 'compensate' for their failing to provide you with an acceptable valet. I dunno - maybe a voucher or free service/MOT etc.

I don't do this as the norm - honestly; But as the mantra goes: "If one doesn't ask (with or without the waterworks and 'acting'), one doesn't get"

ps, I viewed and bought mine in the rain so who knows, i might use said tack if i discover my paintwork and glass is scratched to FrenchConncetionUnitedKingdom lol

Good luck

Hello littleotik and welcome along

Hi All

My Golf TDI recently failed the MOT big style and within 2 days I bought a black Fabia VRS Mk1 the expensive way from a dealer. I have owned it just 3 weeks and have now been offered two years service and two years MOT fees for £299. The car is a 55 plate with 48K miles showing and was serviced with a cambelt change as part of the deal. I only do a low mileage of about 8K per year so is this deal good for me. I am not too worried about keeping up dealer servicing as the history is not full Skoda anyway, but any help would be appreciated.

Thanks

Seems like a bit of a bargain to me. MOT is not far off £50 now so that's just £100 per year for a service.

I doubt using an indy garage would be much cheaper, and if so you are not talking much difference anyway. So I'd go main dealer for that price.

The only reason not to consider it IMO is if you service the car yourself.

Welcome to the forum!