My story was more like, watching youtube. People saying service cost is cheap, great service everywhere. I drive aprox 15k a year.
Well I took it, I had to choose between:
I30N Project C 40k euros, doing 10k "cheap" services
Golf R 7.5 42k euros
- got a service contract offer too late for 9,90 a month/120 a year
But I still had the info services are cheap around 180-200 euros and 60k a little more.
Now I pay 280 for my first 10k service.
A friend showed me his 60k bill and it was 500 euros.
Then I asked how much up till now? He said 280+280+350+280+280+500, and he has now the 70k and the 90k will be even more than the 60k.
It is a great car, but the first thing I had for example paying 150euros for the premium pick up service. Then me and the salesman realise the carbon hood is faulty everywhere. I waited 6 months for a new Hood. At the end I realised they lied to me and just polished the hell out of my hood, the clearcoat on the new hood now is very tiny.
There is still no Warranty solution for the gearbox, I asked today. The synchronisers are just a testing solution, was I told and should not be fitted into the Project C.
The last thing that made me loose faith in this was, the main reason I bought the car was, that it is limited to 600 pieces. The reality is they stopped production because warious problems at aprox 400.
Thats not bad, but leaves a very bad Image about the car and the biggest problem is I saw one guy on ebay selling the left over parts on FB. Great, not.
And yes also in the german groups a lot of people are selling they i30N, attacking people because of it and the Project C is not even sold out after 1 Year at 400 pieces tops.
I can not afford to do a swap now, but I hope after 5 Years when the warranty is over, I will sell it. And I will be older and need a more oldmans fast car. Maybe electric.
PS: I dont know why but even driving slow in ECO mode I am using 10L/100km. With my old GTI was 6,5L on the same road no problem. Even if I round it up, its 2-3L difference. But the weight should not be the problem, I removed the back seats and its a project c which should be light.
Mixed feelings indeed.