General Uncle Arny Clark service horror!

[StiloBoy]

Had my Stilo booked in for its first 12,000 mile service, and to check a creaky clutch!

So after 4 hours of bumbling around Kirkcaldy going mad, caffiened up from 2 different McD's, not a Costa or Starbucks in site! I returned to the dealers, probably looking a little irrate, due to no phone call saying my car was ready yet.

Cara, the fit young blonde chick goes off to find out whats going on with my car. 10 minutes later, i feel much better (no she never dropped to her knee's, well not in real life, fantasy maybe), i got my car back, clutch part on order, service carried out, and i got a discount for apparently looking crabby!

So have i got the cheapest first service? £102.37! I was originally told fixed servicing was going to cost £136 roughly!

Seems fitting considering i've spent half my day sitting in retard central, see McD's....... i'm lovin' it!

 

[purplemonday]

It certainly sounds like you got a reasonable deal, mind you it sounds like all they have done is knocked half an hours labour off as they are probably charging about £65 an hour anyway.

I got details of the servicing costs for the more popular Stilo variants from my local dealer for the Club Stilo website and they quoted £126.56 for the 1.2 with a/c and £122.21 without a/c

 

[HornetUK]

purplemonday wheres the 1.4 on the site? Only being lazy it would be good to have guide price. Good info though cheers.

 

[purplemonday]

The 1.4 will be joining the other variants as soon as I get the info from my local dealer - I should be popping over there this week as I need to have a chat with the service manager so will hopefully get the info then.

 

[Scorg]

interesting that they quoted you £213 for the 1.6 with AC for the 24k service. Had that done at the Same uncle Arnolds as Stiloboy and they charged £160 for the AC version while saying it was about £140 for none AC.

I'll have to admit, That Cara is becoming useful to deal with at uncle arnolds now and she is a nice sight

Ours goes back in tomorrow because of that clutch again. This time its just feeling loose and loudly clicks when you touch it and let go of it. Also seems to have lost the springy feel to it so its like flapping a bit

Oh, OT, but there is a coffee place just across from tkmax in kirkcaldy

 

[StiloBoy]

Sneaky fecks charge £55 for the actual service, and the rest is the bits they use in the service, or dispose of!

I think next time i'll take 5 litres of my own synthetic oil and save an extra tenner.

Still it was all worth it for Cara, she's not got a big chest, but boy what an ass!

 

[timr69]

Must be an Arnie policy or somethin.

Dunno her name but the receptionist at Dunfermline is pretty fit

I've always found them to be much better than Kirkcaldy.

 

[Scorg]

Never been to the Dunfermline one, but my friend got his from there. He did moan about the sales staff as it was dificault to get his punto the way he wanted. He got it in the end though.
Kirkcaldy has ups and downs, at the moment they are doing well but sometimes they say the most stupid of things conidering its warrenty work. Cara had said the other day to get the clutch spring parts next day would cost them money (This being the third time the car went in for it, and first time its felt right since buying the car)

Hey Tim, welcome, another fifer to the list

 

[StiloBoy]

Yeah thats 3 Fifers, you think Tim will be up for an Angel Tuning re-map too?

 

[Scorg]

First we need to find out what Car and engine he has, then we will have to do the arm twisting

 

[StiloBoy]

Think about it, he's a Fifer, we are the tightest of all Scots, he'll have the 1.2! I bet ya!

 

[timr69]

Maybe not.
Just because I live in Fife doesn't mean I'm a Fifer

I've got something even more economical than the 1.2

 

[Scorg]

well at least a remap can be done to his car

 

[timr69]

That'll make it even more smokey. Great

 

[Scorg]

As in the words of Red 1 from the red arrows
"Smoke on, Go!"

 

[StiloBoy]

Aha, someone with a JTD that admits its no less smokey than any other TDI motor.

Er, if you life in fife, that makes you a......... answers on a postcard!

If you work in Edinburgh, lived even in Edinburgh, but now live in Fife, your still a Fifer! I lived in Dundee for 4 years, but i don't still say i'm a taysider!

 

[timr69]

I'm an ex-Geordie but I've lived in Fife since I was 7.

 

[James M]

Smokey JTD

How much does your car smoke?

I wouldn't deny some diesels smoke, not all do though, my mate had an old Bravo TD75 and it used to smoke so much we used to laugh at it. His current Golf however hardly smokes at all.

Another mate recently was following me up a long, up hill slip road, and I booted it away from him, he says there was no smoke.

It does smoke a bit when cold though, but not much, I certainly don't get any black residue on my bumper, and my tail pipe is still shiny, I've only ever had to clean a small amount of soot from it. Maybe I'm just lucky?

 

[timr69]

I know it smokes when I boot it and it also smokes if I accelerate (even gently) after driving at constant speed for a bit, such as on the motorway when you've been held up.

There's some smoke when you start it as well and obviously more when you drive away.

I was following another Multiwagon last week and it was gently smoking while driving through town at 30mph, although not enough to really see it unless you were directly behind.
It was light grey and I noticed that it had some discolouration on the bumper above the exhaust - presumably from the smoke.
Can't see this on mine as it's filthy anyway plus it's dark blue.

 

[StiloBoy]

My Stilo was smoking today, well it was 5oC outside, i guess it was steam really!

My Spitfire smokes, its engine is clapped out, and i was booting it to see if it would break!