Hi Folk,

I know many people are weary of using fast fit places for oil and filter changes but I've just had my offers voucher through from National Tryes and looking on their web site they're doing an oil and filter change using either Fuchs Titan GT1 Pro C3 XTL which meets VAG 507 spec for only £40:46 or Fuchs Titan Pro Flex XTL with meets VAG 505.01 at £44.96 with £5 off these with the voucher, admittedly you've to negotiate a price to remove the under tray.

I don't work for either company so have no axe to grind just sharing what I think is a very good price fir a good quality Oil change and wonder what your thoughts are on it.

Peter

Very, very cheap. Makes you wonder what corners they are going to cut as the oil and filter will cost that alone never mind the labour, disposal of the old oil and their overheads.Most likely some very cheap nasty filter that is not to spec or when you come back to collect the car they will have found other problems on the car that need fixing which aren't so cheap.

I'm thinking it's cheap too but remember they're buying oil in bulk and at trade or better than trade prices not in the 5 litre litre cans you and I are forced to unless we've the storage for a 200 litre drum.

Even still very cheap with bulk discount.

Even still very cheap with bulk discount.

I worked in the motor trade, parts side for 9 years. If I told you how much I used to sell 200 ltr oil orders for, you wouldn't believe me. Some oil filters have a motor factor cost of about £1.20, sell to to trade £4/5 and RRP £12. To the end user. . If you also take into account the total amount of oil national orders every year, they will get huge discount.

I used to work for a similar organisation.

 

We got HUGE discounts on parts such as 90% off RRP on all pattern brake & suspension components and 80% off pattern filters.  Plus we'd be offered specials on our fast moving items - eg: filters that usually cost us $2 after discount were reduced to $1 if we bought a box of 100.  

 

Yes, many of the filters would have been right at the lower end of the quality scale.

 

And yes, expect to see a quote for additional work when you go to pick up the vehicle.  Be quite specific that you don't want any additional work done without prior approval.

 

My good / regular customers used to pay extra for a brand-name quality filter (on my recommendation) - that may be an option for you.

 

Campaigns like that get a lot of customers in that you've never seen before.  Many of the vehicles are well overdue for service.  I used to hate it because often these "budget-minded" customers were often very difficult to deal with as they expected a lot more than what the offer was.

ecp have an offer on today - 5w40 pd oil £11.99 for 5 litres when you buy 2 or more, or £14.99 for 5 litres for the 5w30 longlife oil - + vat though!

Liqui Moly 5W-40 premium oil cost 30€ for 5l canister + about 10€ for filter. And that is the cheapest oil I can get from friend who has got 40% off from dealer.

It is suspiciously cheap for UK - I've never seen anything like during my life in UK.

I believe VAG uses Fuchs now or Shell.

Last oil I got was from barell (Q8 Formula Excel 5W-40) and it costed 700CZK, which is about 26€.

It doesn't matter what you put into your car as long as it has got VW spec. All oils are same and last 5-8k km.

Check out my lab analysis results and my service intervals - it will save you lots of money on expensive repairs.

I forgot to mention. Despite all damage caused by too long service intervals. Cylinder pressure was 30bar +- on all cylinders and didn't exceeded 0.5bar among cylinders. New car has got 32bar - not bad engine condition after 160k km.

 

These engines last around 600-900k km; with my driving style it would be half :-D

Edited 26 October, 201510 yr by sniper29a

I'm sure it would be quarter.  Because Niki Lauda.