Not strictly speaking a B8 specific thread, but yes you've guessed another Audi dealer horror story - this time with their seemingly unbeatable £50 MOT with protection.
Decided to take my A4 to the dealers for the first MOT, surely of course a three year old car with less than 25k miles on it will pass at the first attempt. My thinking behind it was the generous offer of a courtesy car, the £750 "protection" and so on.
The friendly phone call inevitably came to say that it had failed on back tyres - and they were "only" £160 a piece ( I just have standard plain vanilla 17" rims - none of the fancy S-line or run flat stuff...) Naturally this was about £55 more a corner than Black Circles for the exact same tyres, but now my car was up on the ramps with a failed MOT (bearing in mind that this cancels out whatever time you had left on the old MOT) and me in no position to argue. £450 later....I had a new MOT, a brake fluid change and two new tyres (which I've subsequently put on the front axle).
At least I got two free cups of coffee and a nice A6 Allroad 3.0TDI with 7 speed DSG to play with whilst it was in getting done...but it turned out to be a effing expensive test drive....
I've only got my own stupid self to blame - but the moral of the story is.....if you are using Audi to do your MOT - for god sakes check your wear and tear parts before putting in for the test, and replace them yourself first. Don't give the b***rds any excuse to extract more cash from you.
Decided to take my A4 to the dealers for the first MOT, surely of course a three year old car with less than 25k miles on it will pass at the first attempt. My thinking behind it was the generous offer of a courtesy car, the £750 "protection" and so on.
The friendly phone call inevitably came to say that it had failed on back tyres - and they were "only" £160 a piece ( I just have standard plain vanilla 17" rims - none of the fancy S-line or run flat stuff...) Naturally this was about £55 more a corner than Black Circles for the exact same tyres, but now my car was up on the ramps with a failed MOT (bearing in mind that this cancels out whatever time you had left on the old MOT) and me in no position to argue. £450 later....I had a new MOT, a brake fluid change and two new tyres (which I've subsequently put on the front axle).
At least I got two free cups of coffee and a nice A6 Allroad 3.0TDI with 7 speed DSG to play with whilst it was in getting done...but it turned out to be a effing expensive test drive....
I've only got my own stupid self to blame - but the moral of the story is.....if you are using Audi to do your MOT - for god sakes check your wear and tear parts before putting in for the test, and replace them yourself first. Don't give the b***rds any excuse to extract more cash from you.
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