Audi Fixed Cost Maintenance - Q7
Discussion
Does anybody have experience of either the Audi Fixed Cost Maintenance scheme, or servicing/tyres costs for a Q7 ?
Audi Fixed Cost Maintenance seems to be a well-hidden offer from Audi for cars up to one year old & <10k miles, you can take out 2, 3 or 4 year plans. See here:
http://www.audi.co.uk/audi/uk/en2/Financial_Servic...
I'm taking delivery of a new Q7 3.0TDi S-Line Tip Auto in March, and based on 15000 miles per annum, for 2 years (I'll change the car in 2 years), they've just quoted me:
£13.73/month for Service plan (standard service items - parts & labour)
£21.24/month for Service + Maint (includes consumables, brake pads, wipers etc)
£70.59/month for Service + Maint + Tyres
Service + Maint plan looks a steal at a total of c.£500 for two years.
Not so sure about whether the extra £49/month for tyres makes sense, depends if I'm likely to spend more than £1200 on tyres in 2 years/30k miles - any views ?
Audi Fixed Cost Maintenance seems to be a well-hidden offer from Audi for cars up to one year old & <10k miles, you can take out 2, 3 or 4 year plans. See here:
http://www.audi.co.uk/audi/uk/en2/Financial_Servic...
I'm taking delivery of a new Q7 3.0TDi S-Line Tip Auto in March, and based on 15000 miles per annum, for 2 years (I'll change the car in 2 years), they've just quoted me:
£13.73/month for Service plan (standard service items - parts & labour)
£21.24/month for Service + Maint (includes consumables, brake pads, wipers etc)
£70.59/month for Service + Maint + Tyres
Service + Maint plan looks a steal at a total of c.£500 for two years.
Not so sure about whether the extra £49/month for tyres makes sense, depends if I'm likely to spend more than £1200 on tyres in 2 years/30k miles - any views ?
It's a slightly different scale but just over 3yrs ago I bought the VAG service maint and tyre plan for my daughters Ibiza. Cost £20/mth for 3yrs 36K miles. IIRC without tyres it would have been £15.
Interesting that Audi offer it for 4yrs - SEAT was limited to 3 and I called VAG Maint at the end and asked if it could carry on and they were quite rude!
Ibiza is on 10k-12mths intervals but the the servicing is little more than oil change and brake fluid at 2yrs. The car hasn't even needed a set of front pads. So we probably lost a little there.
You should call the dealer service department (better still, call a couple of them) and ask the service prices, find out whether it's on fixed or variable intervals (if variable is there a time limit?) and ask what additional work (brake fluid, coolant, ATF, cambelt? etc etc) needs doing. Ask how much a set of front and rear pads and disks are and how long they typically last. I always do all that before I buy a car - at least you know what's coming then. Do the service plan prices include VAT?
A colleague has Touareg and he always complains about how much is to get serviced.
Some Audi's on variable servicing can run to 20K between servicing so you *might* only need one service in 2yrs/30K, and that would be little more than an oil change.
On they tyre front, daughter's Ibiza only had 2 front tyres so we certainly lost out on that part.
The issue I had (and the main reason for writing this!) was that for tyres they direct you to National Tyres and they also dictate a specific brand. The Ibiza had Dunlop SP Sports and they would only fit Continental EcoContacts - that's a *very* different tyre. I've had issues like that with company lease cars and I've always won but VAG maint were absolutely unyielding. You're also in someone else control about when you change the tyres - ours were worn to the treadwear indicators but the fitter managed to measure them at 3mm so VAG said no at first.
Be careful if they say they'll fit tyres "like for like" - in the fleet industry that only means the same size and from the same price band (ie premium, not budget, tyres). If you find out the size you can check the price at one of the online places.
On the positive side for such schemes the main benefit is you don't notice the monthly payments (I have the same thing on my Merc and that's £80/mth and I don't notice it going out each month).
ETA: Thinking about it, I'm sure I've seen comments about Q7's eating front tyres at *very* low mileages. The £1200 they want you to pay would mean you'd have to replace the whole set twice in 30K miles which seem unlikely though, even if it did eat fronts. There's a chance they might know what they're doing though, when they cost these things up!
Interesting that Audi offer it for 4yrs - SEAT was limited to 3 and I called VAG Maint at the end and asked if it could carry on and they were quite rude!
Ibiza is on 10k-12mths intervals but the the servicing is little more than oil change and brake fluid at 2yrs. The car hasn't even needed a set of front pads. So we probably lost a little there.
You should call the dealer service department (better still, call a couple of them) and ask the service prices, find out whether it's on fixed or variable intervals (if variable is there a time limit?) and ask what additional work (brake fluid, coolant, ATF, cambelt? etc etc) needs doing. Ask how much a set of front and rear pads and disks are and how long they typically last. I always do all that before I buy a car - at least you know what's coming then. Do the service plan prices include VAT?
A colleague has Touareg and he always complains about how much is to get serviced.
Some Audi's on variable servicing can run to 20K between servicing so you *might* only need one service in 2yrs/30K, and that would be little more than an oil change.
On they tyre front, daughter's Ibiza only had 2 front tyres so we certainly lost out on that part.
The issue I had (and the main reason for writing this!) was that for tyres they direct you to National Tyres and they also dictate a specific brand. The Ibiza had Dunlop SP Sports and they would only fit Continental EcoContacts - that's a *very* different tyre. I've had issues like that with company lease cars and I've always won but VAG maint were absolutely unyielding. You're also in someone else control about when you change the tyres - ours were worn to the treadwear indicators but the fitter managed to measure them at 3mm so VAG said no at first.
Be careful if they say they'll fit tyres "like for like" - in the fleet industry that only means the same size and from the same price band (ie premium, not budget, tyres). If you find out the size you can check the price at one of the online places.
On the positive side for such schemes the main benefit is you don't notice the monthly payments (I have the same thing on my Merc and that's £80/mth and I don't notice it going out each month).
ETA: Thinking about it, I'm sure I've seen comments about Q7's eating front tyres at *very* low mileages. The £1200 they want you to pay would mean you'd have to replace the whole set twice in 30K miles which seem unlikely though, even if it did eat fronts. There's a chance they might know what they're doing though, when they cost these things up!
Edited by Deva Link on Wednesday 23 January 18:44
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