Never ceases to amaze me. People buy a new car but only go over it and look in the boot for spare tyre and jack etc once they have driven it home.
I also had the cam belt changed 3 times on our first gen Vauxhaul Zafira and never had the water pump changed once. Even when sold at 14 years old, it still had the original water pump. Moral of the story, dont pay to have a job done when you dont need it.
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Re: Back to front.
Another example of buying an expensive car with AWD and then complaining about the maintenance costs. New set of tyres would probably costs around £500, so not too much if you have to do it every couple of years.
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Another idiot of a main dealer refusing to do what is sensible, however a swap at 22,000 could be too late if the difference is as HJ says getting to as much as 3mm
My tyres are swapped in line with the handbook at every service. They did 42,000 before I change all four, costing less than £500.
However the owner of the XC60 no doubt has a handbook which advises:
"To avoid differences in tread depth and to prevent wear patterns arising, the front and rear wheels can be switched with each other. A suitable distance for the first change is approx.
5000 km and then at 10000 km intervals."
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But you had read or at least went through the handbook. Sadly not many car owners do that.
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Re EVO; we have a 19 plate 1.5 Tiguan manual. 3,000 miles so far and never experienced any judder. Perhaps no coincidence that it's only been filled with V-Power since collection.
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Keeping it in the family. Well said! My sentiments precisely. Substitute my 2009 47000ml Skoda Octavia 1.9TDI L&K for your Mercedes and I could have written that. At the last service at an independent they said to me "keep it as long as you can, it is the last of good simple Diesels. No DPF, no cheat software (so no need to have it "fixed") and no need for greasy AdBlue". EU4 engine and I, too, will be happily avoiding cities that don't want me.
"The majority of the emails you receive seem to be concerned with the endless stream of things that have been mandated by legislation or people have convinced themselves of the 'need' for...". Reading those emails I am simply amazed by those who seem to be surprised by problems caused by previously-unwanted and unnecessary TPMS, lane assist, "intelligent" braking, etc. Just more to go wrong.
My other car is a Morgan. Nothing fancy on that. I simply drive it sympathetically; it does not control my driving.
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Never ceases to amaze me. People buy a new car but only go over it and look in the boot for spare tyre and jack etc once they have driven it home.
Who would suspect that after 150 years or so manufacturers would stop supplying a fundamental item to save a few lbs to improve the emissions? Passenger seats an optional extra next?
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The saving on the emissions is an excuse, it's the £££s it saving in making the car that actually counts.
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I've lost count of the number of letters that state "I expect the quality of (insert brand) who mean few problems". Do these folk never actually research BEFORE they spend the cash or sign on the dotted line?
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