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Guy from SAAB dealership phoned me w/actual amount - £672.31. FFS.

This is why I lease.

$500 to replace radiator and thermostat. that was vacation money. :(

This is why I'm thinking about leasing. That, and my friend who was hit with a £1800 bill for a full service on an A3 Tdi

how does that break down, pash? what's the bulk of the cash? it seems buttock-quakingly expensive.

Yearly sefvice was £340, fitting the subframe long bearings involved dropping the rear subframe, thus was £285. Bits and pieces such as replacing the wiper blades, some part fo the rear washer etc made up the rest. I'm replacing one of the wheels on the 14th, that's going to be another 250 quid. Bleh. It's a nice car to drive, though! Very smooth (apart from the wobble @ 60-70mph caused by the oval wheel)

Oval wheel?

just made me think of this ...

http://www.channel4.com/4car/media/classics/austin-allegro/03-large/allegro-colin-cork-007.jpg

http://jalopnik.com/assets/resources/2007/06/skoda_woody.jpg

I do have to admit that one nice side effect of driving a Ford is that my most expensive service in three years has only been $350.

No help to GT40 drivers out there.

Oval wheel?

-- stet, Thursday, 7 June 2007 18:21 (Yesterday) Bookmark Link

One of the back wheels has a flat spot on it, it's had it since I got the car.

I got the new wheel. What a fuck-about! I turned up at the dealership, and they come out with a wheel and a tyre seperate "here you go, three hundred and thirty pounds please". I'm like, "how am I supposed to fit this?" So I had to stand around for 1hr while they put the tyre o the wheel. WTF.

The upside of this is that I now have a full-size spare wheel/tyre NO MORE SPACE SAVER!¬!!!!1 Cheers, cheers etc.

The other upside of this is WOW WHAT A DIFFERENCE. So much smoother & more pleasant to drive.

Uhhh. This is problem a: I have some sort of sludge all over the dipstick which suggests I've got water getting in there. Please fix. Also there's some oil leaking over the engine.

solution a: The seal on the cap is broken. Oh, we didn't look at the sludge issue. That's going to take us longer, at £50+vat per hour.

problem b: the rear shocks might need fixing, please advise me, before you do the work ('cos this is something I can probably when I'm at my parents over christmas)

solution b: Yep, they definitely needed doing, so we're doing them now.

And a couple of other niggly things.

I could have bought a guitar and a bike and paid off loads of my credit card for what this car's cost me this year. And I've only had it since May.

2002 Octavia- Brake pads (rear) bushings (front) yearly service-

440 euros. chronic.

and the timing belt to get replaced, another 200 parts + 150 labour.

This is probably something for that 'putting things off thread' on ILE really. That and some weird problem I have of not admitting mistakes to my parents because they'll just go on about how it's just like some thing I did when I was a kid and I'll never learn. Much better to put myself through complete agony and say nothing (see also doing and pretty much failing a degree that I realised wasn't for me after 2 weeks).

Anyway. I can see this coming in at at least £300. Someone please steal my car, or drive into it or something.

Ah, less than £200. At least the more it costs, the more I'll appreciate that cut in VAT. And it really did need new shocks, I can feel that the back end actually touches the road now.