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Oil Prices! - malteser
It's not just "Rip off Britain" as far as lube oil is concerned!
I have just had a major service on my Skoda Fabia 1.9tdi. The Skoda dealership in Marbella is owned by the Vw dealer (surprise!) and Skoda servicing has just been transferred to the VW outlet - so thay can charge VW prices to Skoda owners I guess!
Any road up, the car was filled with 4.5 litres of oil at a cost of 55 euros plus VAT - around £44! The oil used is BP Viscostatic 5000 5W-40 to VW specs. I only used to pay around £30 for 4 litres of Mobil 1 in UK .
Never again!
Roger.
Oil Prices! - ludekev
Just taken up National car centres offer of engine oil change and new filter today for £15 all in, thats 5 litres Duckhams QXR semi synthetic using a Coopers oil filter, complete drain off via sump plug done in 20 min. I was not given any sales patter about other things which suprised me as I was fully ready for it, that is a good deal I can't even buy the oil alone for that price, let alone the filter and the time and mess involved in crawling under the motor. Sometimes you can drop lucky although not often, if they're still doing it when the motor is due again I will re-visit them.