youtube Amaroks

I seem to always go back to youtube to watch the Amaroks in action.  Here is a few of the good ones i've found.

30,000 km strong!

Not much posting going on over the last few months, but there has been lots happening so i'll try to catch up.

As the title suggests, the Rok is 30,000km old.  Still performing like a champ and i'm still so impressed!  Took it back for the first service and was majorly disappointed with the effort by the VW dealership.

Here is the list of items I asked to be fixed:

• Speedo correction (reads 7 km's too fast) 
• Persistant rattle / squeak in LHS front area
• Dash lights too bright

The dealer said they would:

• Wash the car
• Rotate the tyres
• do the service

As you can probably guess, they said they were not able to resolve the dash light brightness or the speedo issue, they could not hear the rattle either!  The car was not washed and the tyres were not rotated!

I was pretty annoyed at their whole attitude and paid the bill and drove out of the yard.  As soon as I left the drive and hit the first speed hump, I heard the rattle.  Driving on, the vehicle felt terrible, I pulled in to a servo and checked the tyres pressures and they were 50 PSI all round, not even within VW spec!

Needless to say, I complained, got all the excuses but will vote with my feet and never go back to that dealer.

Another Boat!

This time, the Amarok delivery service took a boat from Melbourne to Yarrawonga on the mighty Murray river.



We launched the boat with no issues and the Rok did what it does! Bit of advice from the (ahem) experienced ... if the weir at Yarrawonga is pouring out water and you are spending the night with the boat tied to the bank, be sure there is at least a meter or more of water below the boat. The water rushing out of the weir artificially raises the height of the river which allows big heavy boats to get stuck in the mud overnight as the water subsides!

Many thanks to the very kind locals who spend time and effort getting the boat "unbogged" from the riverbank!