Audi dealer MOT Offer
 

Audi Leeds just called me - Said that my MOT was coming up for renewal (think they may be wrong about that) and they offered to do it for £39.00 which includes £700 protection on any work needed for your next MOT, on the face of it it sounds like a good deal.

any one else had this offer? at dealer prices would £700 cover much

They've been doing it for a while now.

Conditions apply. Age of car and service history I believe.

MOT at Audi
 

To be honest I wouldnt even dream of going to Audi for an MOT even if it was free....my cousin recently took his 05 A4 to a local audi dealer for the coil pack recall...they offered to do a visual inspection while it was there....came back with a £3000 estimate!!!!!...including something like £1000 for work on brakes

So unless like playing russian roulette I would find a friendly MOT place with people you can trust....

I want my friendly MOT place to do an MOT though, friendly means overlooking the cats or emissions. Look at these tyres I found on my car a few days after it passed its MOT. One of the advisories was 'brake pads wearing thin' so I decided to change the brakes myself, when I took the tyres off. I nearly crapped myself (bare in mind I am off to Germany in a few weeks in this near 200MPH/2 Ton thing) so I was furious to see this. Needless to say, I replaced the tyres straight away. I don't know any friendly MOT testers, but god knows what you'd call this one. :mad:

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How often do you check your tyres Amar?? geez I agree with you that it should never have passed even the most friendly of MOT's but you have to take some responsibility for checking your tyres at least every week if not more often especially with a "high performance tyre shredding car"!! :rolleyes:

Oh and congratulations on your 3,000th post!!!

Having been here myself (though not through MOT), from 'needing done soon' to canvas can happen pretty quickly.

Neil - I've not been driving as many years as most of you so lack the experience that you guys have attained in your years of motoring, in all honestly I never even thought of checking 'down there' and because my car is so low it is difficult to inspect the tyres, I can just about get my finger in to keep a track of the tread. The alignment was done before I collected it by Wheels In Motion (highly recommended) and the suspension is spot on, I read on the RS6 forum afterwards that the Bridgestones that were on it have a knack for doing this on the RS6s so now have Goodyear Eagle F1s, which I will now keep an eye on.
I didn't spot it were my 3,000th post. What do I win? I could do with a rear parking sensor for my RS6 please A8 Parts!

A few more miles on that tyre and it would have blown.

I've been using the same MOT station for over 26 years, friendly yes, helpful yes, local no, discount MOTs no.

Would he let me off with anything, definitely not, and that's the reason I use him. I know the car is MOT's properly and it has a clean bill of health for another year. In the 26 years I have had one advisory and no fails.

I can have an MOT done a mile from my home for £9.99 which is a great deal, or is it? The test should, according to the DVLA take approximately one hour, a mechanic's wages are more than £9.99 per hour plus the cost of the MOT equipment, rates, gas, electricity, tax, etc. etc. So how can they charge such a small amount and make a profit :rolleyes::rolleyes:

Much the same here.. Use a garage down the road, they're not interested in big jobs, so doesn't suit them to lie about MOT, and they know I do most of the little stuff myself, or take it to a specialist, so nothing much for them apart from the odd little thing I don't have the tool for (yet).

Yup, you could make it from just legal to that in a few days quite easily in that car, so it could well have legally passed, but it should definitely been marked as an advisory.....

I disagree .....I use my dealer and get the free mot offer :) not all dealers are c**p some are quite good and before anyone says anything about old cars!!!! My dealer services my RS 6 ( as well as unit 20 ) and my urqs :ROFL:

bit of a C5 trait to wear the tyres on the shoulders before the middle - I rotated mine last year and got a nice little advisory on my MOT recently to say both inner and outer edges all round are worn! Still got 3-4mm of tread over most of the tyre.

Doesn't help that the car does mainly town work so I'm currently debating with myself on whether to stick some Vred's on it rather than replacing like-for-like with Michelins again. Current set have done 16k miles and counting!

Amar - if you use your car's full potential on any tracks while you're away you can pretty much expect to be needing to replace those F1s when you get back lol

I too get my s8 MOT'ed free at the main dealer- this year it failed on bulbs (which I should have noticed), and they replaced these, didn't cost much...

It may be that not all the dealers are c**p, but i dont have much faith in Leeds Audi since i took my car there with a component protection issue, they denied all knowledge of what i was talking about, never heard of it, dont know what your talking about, but offered to look at the car for x pounds an hour - in 2 weeks time, (Warrington Audi said something similar). in the end Craigyb got me in at manchester audi the next day, who, did know and got it fixed in 30 minutes.

for MOTs I think i will stick to the little guys not interested in doing loads of work.

We've got a chain of garages down here in the South East called justmots.eu that ONLY do MOTs and no servicing/repairs at all. They'll adjust your headlight aim FOC but won't touch much else.

They charge £27 if you book 90 days ahead, which I usually manage to do - otherwise it's £38. Because they take bookings (incl on Saturdays) you can take it in and it's done while you wait with no messing about.

I used to spend half a Saturday queuing up at a local place that didn't take bookings and charged way more

I took advantage of the 'FREE' MoT at the local Aberdeen dealership as it was it's first Annual Inspection.

I got an advisory for lower link bushes - "may need renewing at next Inspection."

I disputed that with them as any movement should be a fail. Seems the 'FREE' bit stops them doing work in this case. I'm sure if I'd been paying for the MoT that job would have become mandatory! :tuttut:

You mean inside shoulder? Its not just C5 but pretty much all Audi models( and Passat) that share similar suspension setup experience this problem as suspension ages or if is lowered. If You mean both shoulders then it is because of too little tyre pressure or too wide tyres for the rim.

I am sure it is just inside on Amars car because:
1. If it were both shoulders he would have shown both in picture
2. If it was that bad on outside as well he surely would have noticed that earlier.

Yep, just inside shoulder.

Be carefull when buying tyres they don't have an outside then, those Amar has run down to the wires have an inside so couldn't be rotated just moved to the back.

Amar if you've not had these renew'd yet do your tyre fitter a favour and tell him before he undoes the wheel nuts and grabs the wheel with both hands. As i can tell you from experience it hurts loads.

Oh and if Mr Plod had seen those you could hae been in for 3 points and a fine regardless of who long you been driving, it's your responsibility to check, "Mr MOT would just say they must have been changed after i tested it" (depending where you go) and TBH the rest of the tyre doesn't look like it's got much life in it anyway.

I used to get this on the 8 but i had the tracing adjusted slightly (tow in) to cancel out the affect

That's 3 points per tyre iirc.

That's right, 3 points + fine PER defective tyre....

Weren't doing a 'Clarkson' were you Amar?

He seems to have an uncanny ability to kill a set in about 5 mins, but I guess that's easy if they're freebies

Mine wears the inside on the rear and the outside on the front, so having rotated them front to back I've got rear tyres with worn inner and outer shoulders and fronts that already have inner wear that are now wearing on the outside lol

I checked them this evening and they're nowhere near being through the carcase of the tyre

Nope, the plus has a fairly easy life with me. The handling isn't great on it to be honest (one of the reasons the Beemer had to go, it was making the plus feel twice as bad then it actually is) so I try not to take it around corners quickly as it would just depress me. I am getting some anti roll bars from the US that are going to make it 65 % stiffer though, I am hoping they transform the handling, I've read great things so have very high hopes for them. Will get another check done on the alignment anyway.

The alignment might be within tolerance mate, as was my 8. But i had it set to tow in more to counter the tyre wear i was getting. So effectively the alignment is out on mine but i get even tyre wear.

Also without wanting to offend, could it be your driving style that makes such a huge difference between the Beemer and the RS? What i mean is could your driving style suit a RWD car. Maybe try a bit of pendulum into the bend or lifting or maybe a dab of brakes to get the arse end out.

I can't get it into my head that a 330 derv and a 318 petrol can have the same weight dist front and rear. Or how it adjusts ballest to suit a 8 stone whippet of a man to a 25 stone big fella or the fuel it has on board.

Had mine MOT'd at Stafford Audi last week

They were great and told me about the free MOT thing which has now been stopped in favour of offering the free insurance on parts needed at the next MOT.

They didn't try to stitch me up in any way. Quite the reverse, showed me around the underneath of my car. Explained why a roll bar link is on advisory and replaced a blown number plate bulb for nuppence.

All in all I enjoyed a bit of time to catch up on emails, in comfort, while downing loads of free, excellent coffee and eyeballingall those lovely R8's, A1's, A3's etc (and the fit girl with leather trews collecting her spanking new drophead TT) :love:

You'd be mad not to take advantage of this Audi insurance. It's their way of saying they have confidence in the quality of their product.
I'm for giving Audi credit for making an effort +++

If the Goodyear F1's are the Asymmetric V1 then I would strongly recommend keeping an eye on them. I used to use GDS3s and they were brilliant, when Goodyear changed them to the Asymmetric I put some on the rear of my Soarer and went from getting 12,000 miles from the rears to 4,500 miles. They may be a little grippier, but they died a misserable death on my car. I am told the V2 that has just come out improves this, but I haven't tried them. I sold the car just before they needed replacing. The GDS3's on the front were still going strong.