Originally Posted by ACAPULCO AL
used to be 3 caledonia's - preston, warrington & manchester, reg vardy in stockport, lythgoe in rochdale and i believe there was one in bolton as well.
now just mango's. perfect example of survival of the fittest. the others were evidently rubbish. caledonia (from personal experience) were sh*te.
Lythgoe is a multi-brand franchise still. I bought my Mazda at the Mazda/Nissan/Fiat branch in Bolton. I have to say, their service is not very good - but it is expensive. So I'm not surprised they were in the cull.
I had to change a sidelight bulb yesterday (not a simple task with a Mazda 6
-stupid inaccessible design) so I opened the airbox to squeeze my hand in to the narrow gap and found the air filter looks minging. Now it had a 62k service last month (@ £290) and a 50k service last summer ( @ well >£300
)- I ain't checked the bills or schedule yet but I'd expect an air filter to have been changed in one of those two. It looks like its been there since new.
My point is that it isn't just Alfa main stealers who rip you off.