Recommend me a service place on the Sunshine Coast near Maroochydore please

[Guest001]

Polo needs its 7 year service so Timing belt and waterpump needed Been quoted $1300? from dealer.

Surely an independant can do better.

Googled it and come up with Andrews Hitech, Continental Car repairs at Caloundra (a bit far away) and SVS at Kunda Park.


Any recommendations on these please.

Passat also coming up in June.. Oh the pain

[Umai Naa!!]

Isn't the 77TSI chain-driven?

[Guest001]

Dont know will have to read the service manual but the dealer didnt say when I asked the cost of a 7 year service. Manual says toothed belt and tensioner at 120,000km car has only done 22,000 since Jan 2011 but I read its that or 7 years

[Umai Naa!!]

Manual is not entirely specific to the car, or the Australian market.

Timing belt, where fitted, is due every 105K or 7 years in Australia.

[Guest001]

Manual is not entirely specific to the car, or the Australian market.

Timing belt, where fitted, is due every 105K or 7 years in Australia.

Exactly why Im doing it this month and obviously does have a belt

[Umai Naa!!]

Is the engine code CBZB?

[Guest001]

Is the engine code CBZB?

I dont know Its a Nov 2010 build 77TSI Sevice manual has various models including Polo


Looking the service records its a CBZ1*****

[Umai Naa!!]

It's chain-driven. No timing belt.

Hence my mentioning that the book is not specific to your exact car.

[Guest001]

Well thats probably worse after all the slipping tensioners so it will still need to be done wont it.

No one has recommended anyone to do it yet though and for some reason this thread doesnt show up in new posts on my computers

[Umai Naa!!]

No service interval on the chain. You replace it, and it's associated parts when it fails, or is failing.

Unless it's making a racket, or the water pump is no longer pumping, or has sprung a leak, leave it be.

[Greg Roles]

Hard to recommend someone on the Sunny Coast actually, I've tried a few, and sent friends and locals with Euro cars to several and am yet to find anyone who is a stand out. SVS did good jobs for some of my doctor mates, but they sure as hell charged for it. Nobody has done a poor job, but nobody has impressed me as yet. The local Skoda dealer is pretty good for me, but even they spilled oil all over my engine last basic oil change service, and just degreased it, and I had to pull the tray and clean it out properly to get rid of the oil smell. Been doing my own servicing since.

[Wartai]

I have used Andrews a couple times, on our old Polo we had timing belt done and good job, but they arent cheap..
We have our 2011 Golf GTI in there at the moment getting the chain tensioner + casing done, costing $1027, expensive