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If you stay near Clydebank I would use www.a4audi.co.uk. I have used them for servicing my car and they are excellent at what they do. I have not had my cambelt done by them as yet but I will be when it is due to be done.
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Avant, much to my dismay she has wanted a Beetle all her life and when she went to college to do Nursing we sort of said that when she graduates and gets a job then that can be her reward!
The reality is I very rarely drive the Fabia now and she is using it to cimmute to work and she might as well do it in a car she wants and "live the dream" so to speak.
Interestingly we went for a test drive on sat and she loved it. She confided to me afterwards that she had never actually sat in a Beetle, never mind drive it, and she was scared in case she was going to hate it and her last 30 odd years of dreams were in vain!
But alas she loved it! :(
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> why does SWMBO want to change from a Fabia vRS to a Beetle?
My thoughts exactly... I can give the vRS a good home!
I had that model of Beetle as a courtesy car for a few days a while back (think it was a 53, which shows how long ago - I still had Polo) and, also being someone who'd wanted a Beetle forever, it cured me of that dream.
Did she give it a proper test drive? She's going to find it really sluggish after the vRS. And they are a nightmare to park because of the rounded corners.
But hey, if she's always wanted one, go for it. Just don't put a stupid flower in the dashboard! :)
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PG, was going to email you and offer you it!!!
As part of the test drive I insisted she go into Tesco car park and park it between cars as well as, separately, parking it within lines without any cars nearby. She managed it fine albeit maybe left the nose sticking out further than she should have.
Re the speed, she is not really a "driver" as such and although to you and me it was a Fabia vrS, to her it was a car to get her to work and back. In fact one of her criticisms of the car was that it made her drive too fast!
I will be sad to see the Fabia go but I very rarely drive it now and have given up trying to keep the seats clean in it! I had my fun with the Fabia whilst I was using it for a year and a half but, without sounding too cheesy, if the Beetle gives her as much fun and enjoyment then it will be worth it.
My goodness , did I just say that - don't tell her!
Oh and it already has a stupid flower in the dashboard!
Edited by Dynamic Dave on 21/04/2008 at 20:24
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>PG, was going to email you and offer you it!!!
I'll swap - you take my Golf until 2010, and I'll have the Fabia, after you change the seats for black leather. :) Am gutted that the new Fabia is so ugly and I've missed my chance to have one of the old style ones.
>Oh and it already has a stupid flower in the dashboard!
In that case you need to go the whole hog and put the flowers up the side too. I saw one today in cream with rainbows up the side. Looked fab!
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Flowers up the side..... let me think about that one...... eh, naw!
There again. I am now in a different dilemma - when she gets this do I do as I have always done and take control of all things car, washing, polishing etc or do I give her the keys and say your responsibility!!
Might give it the full Autoglym treatment inc clay bar, alloys etc and then leave it in her safe, capable hands! Definitely leaving the cleaning of the inside of the windscreen to her though!
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Going back to the cambelt change - I had a 1.9TDi 100bhp and it is indeed 60k/4 years, whichever is sooner!
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