Firstly York Audi offered me a great price on a service including spark plugs (£489 incl VAT).
When I dropped the car off and took the courtesy car, they had put me in a petrol A4 TFSI quattro as they thought I would prefer it to their usual FWD diesels, and they were right. Whilst it's obviously not a high revving N/A V8, it gripped well and mated to the S-Tronic gearbox it had enough go for the daily duties. The car was also pretty well specced with B&O, nav, Bluetooth phone and music streaming, etc. 3k miles on the clock and black edition S Line trim. Nice, comfortable car, so happy with that.
I asked them to fit my supplied replacement expansion tank whilst it was there and look at the squeaky drivers door window. The expansion tank was replaced and coolant bleed and replaced. £20 incl VAT charged. Again, another £20 incl VAT to strip, clean and grease the window runner. Pretty much back street garage prices there really.
Had the car MOT'd including their warranty, however the car failed on a rear tyre with a cut in it (pleased I had it MOT'd as didn't know about it). We started to discuss tyres... The car didn't have a matching set which bugged me and this was the perfect excuse to rectify. They confirmed they would price match 'within reason' and suggested Pirelli. Erm, no, not keen on Pirelli's having had them and many other brands on my old B5 RS4. Told them I was fairly sure I'd seen Michelin Pilot Super Sports for circa £600 which are my preferred tyre of choice, having had them on a previous M3 along with the former standard 'PS2's'. He told me they were £220 each at cost to them, but send him the details. He called me back after checking with the managers and said, sir we'll have to get them ordered for you. It will be £643 fitted incl VAT for the four.
Happy days
All in all a great service, great prices and friendly and helpful staff, more than happy with that. Was almost a pleasure paying the bill!
Big thanks to RossDagley in here for the heads up on TyreLeader's PSS prices.
