Cost of 12000 mile service for SP6

[Big Al.]

VYL8 said:

My Tuscan is due for its 12k service, Ive been quoted £1300 from the dealer I bought it from - his tyring to have me pants down! where else can I go in the west sussex area?

£1300 sounds a little steep!

Try Fernies (Furnhursts) see advertisers, mine's in for a 6000 on Thursday about £350 ish, having tappets checked and done as well another £150. So fingers crossed it will be around the £520 mark.

IIRC a 12000 is about £550, give them a call and speak to Brian he's a very nice man.

[Daftlad]

I doubt if you'll get an S6 serviced, at 12,000 miles, with valve clearances for less than £800 inc VAT.
Lots of folk that advertise for less plus clearances, but thats not a fair comparison.

[Tuska]

Daftlad said:

I doubt if you'll get an S6 serviced, at 12,000 miles, with valve clearances for less than £800 inc VAT. Lots of folk that advertise for less plus clearances, but thats not a fair comparison.

Agreed. TopCats (Superb Indie Tuscan race team) charge about £750 inc vat for a sevice including the valve clearances. For a proper job this is about the right price. IMHO.

[flyingjase]

£495 inc Tappets with Steve Howard

[BliarOut]

Does anyone do their own 6K service? Is it any more than just an oil and plug change?

£400 seems a lot of money for an oil service, or is there a lot of other stuff that needs doing?

[itsadeal]

flyingjase said:

£495 inc Tappets with Steve Howard

Could you mail me the details Jas!

thanks

Paul

[jamessim]

Check my profile for servicing costs,
My son has a Hyundi accent last service 12,000 miles £448 the additional cost included 2 budget tyres at £80 for the pair.
I have always asked my agent "factory trained and operatives as well" but an indie nonetheless, to always look for the unexpected and not just the do the service required. No complaints and have a reasonably cheap car to run.

Best regards,

James Sim.

[nemasis]

check out www.automedon.co.uk,give them a ring

[robscim]

I don't understand why no-one has suggested Austec.

Give them a call - they're advertised on PH (or google them) but wait until they've finished servicing my 4.5 and they're next to Gatwick.

They give servicing prices on their website too.

Cheers

Rob

[saxon]

I'm a TVR Griff owner and I'm afraid the XK8 guy is right. There are a heck of a lot of us who TVR need to sell to. I'm not giving up my Griff and its £450 (main dealer) £250-£300 (indy) servicing costs and moving to a car that costs more than double that and depreciates like a stone though.

Solve that issue and you solve TVR's sales problem.

Saxon

[Daftlad]

saxon said:

I'm a TVR Griff owner and I'm afraid the XK8 guy is right. There are a heck of a lot of us who TVR need to sell to. I'm not giving up my Griff and its £450 (main dealer) £250-£300 (indy) servicing costs and moving to a car that costs more than double that and depreciates like a stone though. Solve that issue and you solve TVR's sales problem. Saxon

An excellent point well made?

Not sure.

Service costs are only a small part of what normal punters consider when buying a car.

Would a typical Griff owner choose to consider points like better build quality, vastly superior performance in every department and look at the fact that servicing done properly at a main dealer would only cost 50% more than their current car.

Would they consider that this was very little extra to pay in real terms for a £50K car.

Would they look at the 3 year warranty and think that that would give them some security in the next three years of ownership. Would they actually consider the depreciation, and decide quite rightly, that as far as £50K cars go, they hold their money well.

Or would the owners of that V8 engined car, that can be run relatively cheaply, possibly look at the newer TVRs, decide that maybe they don’t want to spend maybe as much as another £40K on a new TVR that’s not even got a real engine?

Me thinks your interpreation of TVRs problems are far too simplistic. I for one am not convinced that owners of Griffs and Chims are TVRs main area for market growth………no matter how romantic the idea appears.

No intending to offend any Griff owners out there, your good self includeed, just my observation, and all IMHO of course.


>> Edited by Daftlad on Wednesday 31st May 07:10

[targarama]

saxon said:

I'm a TVR Griff owner and I'm afraid the XK8 guy is right. There are a heck of a lot of us who TVR need to sell to. I'm not giving up my Griff and its £450 (main dealer) £250-£300 (indy) servicing costs and moving to a car that costs more than double that and depreciates like a stone though. Solve that issue and you solve TVR's sales problem. Saxon

Excluding depreciation (so don't buy new then) my T350 is cheaper to service and repair than my Chimaera. Things were always needing attending to on the Chimaera - these add up and cover the service cost difference. Now an older T350 would probably have more things falling off too, but the difference isn't that great.

Also, remember most TVRs only do 5-6,000 miles a year = 1 service.