RE: 30k service... (WAS Re: road rage)

["Patrick Sherman" <patrick@volkswagen.org>]

My 30K ran about $245.. I supplied the Spark Plugs, and Did the Oil Change
Myself, and had a non-disposable filter.. So that saved me 1.3 hours of the
labor and parts... schwweet..


Patrick Sherman
1997 JETTA GLX / 26k / Tred
Eurospeed Motorsports
Email:patrick@eurospeed.org
http://www.eurospeed.org


> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-jettaglx@igtc.com [mailto:owner-jettaglx@igtc.com]On Behalf
> Of John Hamill
> Sent: Friday, October 02, 1998 6:13 AM
> To: jettaglx@igtc.com
> Subject: Re: 30k service... (WAS Re: road rage)
>
>
> My 30k and 60k visits both ran around $350 at Gallery in Norwood, MA.
>
> Chuck Simpson wrote:
>
> > How much did you pay for the 30k service?
> > I know I have a little while before I reach that point (currently
> > 10.5k),
> > but was just curious since it seems the 30k service costs vary
> > quite a bit from dealer to dealer.  I just wonder if they all perform
> > the
> > same maintenance.
> >
> > -Chuck Simpson
> > '98 White Jetta GLX-VR6 (had 10K service just a week ago).
> >
> > Murray Nesbitt wrote:
> >
> > > At 05:32 PM 10/1/98 -0500, Bruce Stapley wrote:
> > > >On Tue, 29 Sep 98, John Darwak <jpdarwak@flash.net> wrote:
> > > >> Ah Brucie you crack me up...
> > > [...]
> > > >Mm-hmm. So the *government* forces you to drive like an asshole.
> > > [...]
> > >
> > > Could you guys take it to private email?  If this was
> > > Usenet, I would have deleted the thread once I read the
> > > words 'Ah Brucie...'.
> > >
> > > Ob-GLX content: While having the 30K done, I asked to take
> > > out a 4-banger for a test-drive.  All they had was an auto.
> > > It was, frankly, terrible--brakes, acceleration, suspension...
> > > I believe the difference between the GL and GLX was only
> > > $6000/Cdn (I bought mine used, and never considered anything
> > > but the GLX, so I'm not positive).  If so, it was the best
> > > $6000 I'll ever spend. But the Bose stereo is a big improvement
> > > over what was delivered on the early '97s like mine.
> > >
> > > Murray in Vancouver
> > > '97 Black GLX (just had 30K service today)
> >
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