Sunday, Jun 19, 2005 at 17:55
yeah Peter, quite agree as long as it stays around $600. I can hardly hang around the workshop all day looking over their shoulders though. You can
check some fluids but others remain clean anyway and are more difficult to
check that they've done it. Bearings and swivel joints are amongst the items to be serviced on the 120,000k service. I suppose the other way to look at it is that considering the scope of service $600 is probably ok. The remaining two and a half years I may give a miss. At least this service will have given me 12 months warranty. But for future
services, dunno. I'm aware that things are probably more likely to go wrong the older the car gets, I'm just loathe to pay top dollar and spend a day kicking my heels whilst they perform a minor service at premium price, and let's face it, in the unlikely event (fingers x'd) of gearbox or donk needing major surgery, it'll come to a lot more than the $1000 cover I'm getting. I won't go into this but I'm mightilybleepoff with these big dealerships after my wife's Commodore went into the Gosford dealership for what should've been a $200+ service and ended up with $1300+ on the plastic with an accumulation of odds and ends. I wouldn't mind but the past couple of times she's taken it in, it came out with no handbrake, for instance. We told them to "make sure you
check the handbrake this time" still no hand brake. Three times it took. This time it was the alternator. "oh it's just the bushes" they said. Wife drives car
home, goes off shopping the next day and ends up stranded with NRMA roadside assistance. It needed a new alternator. They eventually replaced it at no extra cost after a few verbals from me and the bride.
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