Buying from a Skoda dealer in 500 ml bottles can be expensive. £7+ a litre if I recall. Any one have a cheaper source that does not involve high P&P costs that make the deal prohibitively expensive. TPS has been mentioned for cheap VW oil but according to website they only deal with Trade customers. They stock it in various sizes and specs though. Any advice, preferably not Ebay?

Edited 29 October, 201312 yr by kibby

Not used TPS personally but frequently read of non traders using them, and when I rang my local branch was told I could attend and purchase without presenting documentation. 

Edited 28 October, 201312 yr by oldstan

I use TPS, never had a problem dealing with me and they give me trade prices. I think a lot of the taxis round Oldham use the local branch as well.

I have bought oil, filters, screens wash (Quantum which I think was £1.99 for 5 litres?) and break discs/pads. I was directed to TPS by the local VW dealer when looking for an Audi hub cap for a set of second hand alloys I'd bought for winter use.

Not Quantum but good nonetheless: http://www.eurocarparts.com/ecp/p/car-accessories/engine-oils-and-car-fluids/antifreeze-and-screenwash/concentrate-screenwash/?542771151&0&cc5_701

 

Eurocarparts £3.42 for 5 litres (makes 20 litres), plus free economy delivery.

 

Screenwash is screenwash at the end of the day?

I've just bought 5 litres of LIDL screenwash.

German made and good for -60 degrees!

I dilute 1/2 parts water and it lasts me all winter.

Another vote for the Lidl screenwash.  For those paranoid about VAG's fud campaign about the risk of blocking washer jets, it says on the label that's it's suitable for fan-type washer jets.  (And, as someone else noted here when this topic came up once before, if you ever did need to replace a washer jet, they cost pennies...)

kibbu, are

Buying from a Skoda dealer in 500 ml bottles can be expensive. £7+ a litre if I recall.

Screenwash, or antifrost screenwash? I paid £5.00 per litre bottle of the latter at an Audi dealer recently but have paid less than that at Skoda and VW dealers in the past. It is called Windscreen Clear if in a grey bottle and Antifrost Screenwash if in the black Audi-branded bottle.

Not Quantum but good nonetheless: http://www.eurocarparts.com/ecp/p/car-accessories/engine-oils-and-car-fluids/antifreeze-and-screenwash/concentrate-screenwash/?542771151&0&cc5_701

 

Eurocarparts £3.42 for 5 litres (makes 20 litres), plus free economy delivery.

 

Screenwash is screenwash at the end of the day?

 

Is it Fan Jet friendly, might affect your warranty     :think:

Is it Fan Jet friendly, might affect your warranty     :think:

You're not  "offnote" are you Auric?

Used the Lidl stuff for years now.  The rear jet in the "new" combi was a bit iffy when I first got it.  Once the Lidl stuff worked its way through, it performed perfectly ever since.

Does the job when blatting down German Autobahn in -10C, -15C.  Being redimix, you don't have to faff about when topping off either.

Another vote for the lidl stuff.

Doesn't freeze even when diluted 2:1 and the bottle now has a handy spout.

Has a small tendency to "foam" but doesn't detract from performance.

A vote for TPS.

The Screenwash Concentrate (Quantum) down to -20C version I paid £7+ for 2 x 500ml bottles at a SKODA dealer was about £3 for 5 Litres at TPS.

Also Quantum 5-30w LongLife III was less than £7 a litre in 1 litre bottles, probably cheaper in 5

litre size Meets the full variable servicing VW507 spec.

Adviser said made by Castrol and very similar to Castrol Edge 5-30w Professional the Dealers sometimes use.

get mine through the wifes work.......25ltrs for £12

Isnt quantum but its fine with fan jets and its concentrated so can mix as I like

just bought a huge bottle of the lidl stuff. seems good so far - cleared the frost off the windscreen nicely yesterday morning

Just bought 3x5L of the Lidl screenwash which should do for both our cars over winter. I got through 2 of them last year - the headlamp washer (now de-fused) seems to chuck out loads :(

 

Any savings I made on the screenwash has probably been lots by buying new wipers (one split on the way back from Manchester and we were going on holiday the next day) from Halfords at £32 :( On the plus side the Bosch Aerotwins seem to do a better job than I remember the stock wipers doing from new.

I had Lidl stuff in my last car (Accord) and was very impressed by it. It was far superior to any other screenwash I've tried previously (Halfords etc.) I've still got four 5 litre containers left in my garage ('bought it when it was on offer at £1.99 for 2x5litres ). I've only just got my Yeti but when the screenwash needs topping up, I know what I'll be using (subject to checking of the "fan jet" issue first).

I've only ever used the Lidl stuff in the octavia.  That's four years now. 

In the old mk1, I used a French "anti-moustique" as a summer screen wash, but the Lidl one seems to do the biz with flattened insects too.

I only ever use it neat, although I keep meaning to dilute it for summer use. 

It seems to keep the screen cleaner, so I don't need to use the washers so much.  But that may just be me?

I have never seen an inkling of any type of residue either round the fan jets or on the windows/bodywork.  After a run, no visible streaking.

Combined with decent wiper blades, it gives the cleanest, clearest screen I have ever had.  The Bosch blades seem to last longer too, two years and still streak free.

The fact it comes ready to use means no mid journey frantically searching for clean water to top off your additive - not always easy in midwinter.  

I bought a load of this in bulk a few years ago.

 

Not sure how it differs from the Quantum stuff...

 

Have used both... The grey bottle 'clear' version goes to -60c I believe and the Quantum to -20c.

I use the Lidl stuff. I tend to mix 2 parts water to 1 part fluid with no problems (apart from the smell). 5 litres normally lasts me a year.

 

It's great on cold mornings too. Make sure your blades aren't stuck to the screen and then just hit the washers and watch the ice disappear. No need to stand outside scraping.