Car appreciation... the aesthetics, the engineering, etc

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hugo7
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- Came at the start of the allocated time slot
- bit of Q&A
- did their magic
- at the end explained that the oil and gas were low. Also noted that the flow rate was way too low and I needed my polen filter changed and told me where to do it locally.
- A/C gone from 18° to 2°
- 40mins soup to nuts
- £60
I know I didn't have any leaks or require replacement parts, but based on the service received they were great.

Other general pointers he mentioned were:
- run on cold for a good 5mins at least once a week
- at this age (~10yo) AC should be serviced once every couple of years.

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stevo_com in reply to @hugo7

£?

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hugo7 in reply to @stevo_com

£60 for the service. Then if work had been needed they give you a quote with a £50 call-out charge that gets deducted... which is confusing, but I take to mean £50 minimum for labour.

As I said the big thing was them coming to the door. One of us needs to use the car most days at some point over the next 3 weeks, so taking it somewhere wasn't very practical. Especially for something none urgent we could live with.

He said that the loss of gas was due to the age of the car, and that you have some leaking over time. Given what he said about making sure it's run at least once a week being in my mums ownership prob didn't do it any favours as I think we've but almost as many miles on it in 3yrs as she did in 10. Iirc it had something like 30g of gas when I should have had 500g.... It's all on a little sheet somewhere.

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