Major Service Cost - 981 GT4
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Mutema said:
Hi Folks
Wondering if I could get a straw poll on service costs. OPC is quoting me £1,376 for a major service on my GT4.
I know I can get it cheaper at an indy but just trying to assess whether this is reasonable as OPC pricing goes.
Thanks!
This pretty much the new standard price @ OPC, Porsche have since discontinued the fixed price servicing scheme.... certainly not advertising it anymore. Wondering if I could get a straw poll on service costs. OPC is quoting me £1,376 for a major service on my GT4.
I know I can get it cheaper at an indy but just trying to assess whether this is reasonable as OPC pricing goes.
Thanks!
This price will include the major service, sparks plugs, and the other ancillary checks on the 4 year interval.
They effectively now try to make all the ancillary checks mandatory with the new pricing.
Edited by TDT on Thursday 4th June 19:21
Pretty costly in my opinion. The fluids and parts (probably doesn’t include brake fluid, that’ll be extra) come to perhaps £200. The rest is a staggering price for a numpty to plug it in and spent 3 hours twiddling about. The cars are nearly new. A major on my 996T at 9E was circa £650 on a much older and more complicated car.
I expect you’ll also have to pay the extra for the 111 point check. I’d be interested if they spent any longer on the car including that than on the major service ... money for nothing. Apart from a series of small and not so small bills to bring the car up to the warranty spec - oh and then another £1500 for the warranty too, sir. Perhaps you need to do all this to get another build slot on a new one?
I expect you’ll also have to pay the extra for the 111 point check. I’d be interested if they spent any longer on the car including that than on the major service ... money for nothing. Apart from a series of small and not so small bills to bring the car up to the warranty spec - oh and then another £1500 for the warranty too, sir. Perhaps you need to do all this to get another build slot on a new one?
Thanks everyone for the quick replies, much appreciated.
They've thrown everything into that £1375 including brake fluid change and the tyre sealant/inflator.
I've been thinking about JZM as an alternate and need to phone them to confirm current pricing. They're the only independent I would consider.
I have less than zero love for the OPC for their incessant gouging but it's always useful to know just how badly they're trying to rinse you.
Mutema said:
Thanks everyone for the quick replies, much appreciated.
They've thrown everything into that £1375 including brake fluid change and the tyre sealant/inflator.
I've been thinking about JZM as an alternate and need to phone them to confirm current pricing. They're the only independent I would consider.
I have less than zero love for the OPC for their incessant gouging but it's always useful to know just how badly they're trying to rinse you.
Yep...They've thrown everything into that £1375 including brake fluid change and the tyre sealant/inflator.
I've been thinking about JZM as an alternate and need to phone them to confirm current pricing. They're the only independent I would consider.
I have less than zero love for the OPC for their incessant gouging but it's always useful to know just how badly they're trying to rinse you.
Not all OPC’s are the same, the sytner group of OPC’s no longer use fixed price servicing and increased all their prices lately
4 year major require spark plug change which is a big part of the cost.
Also my service manager applied a little common sense that if you have porsche assist why both with new tyre sealant. Call them to recover the car, thats what the service is for if your happy to wait for recovery.
4 year major require spark plug change which is a big part of the cost.
Also my service manager applied a little common sense that if you have porsche assist why both with new tyre sealant. Call them to recover the car, thats what the service is for if your happy to wait for recovery.
r1flyguy1 said:
Not all OPC’s are the same, the sytner group of OPC’s no longer use fixed price servicing and increased all their prices lately
4 year major require spark plug change which is a big part of the cost.
Also my service manager applied a little common sense that if you have porsche assist why both with new tyre sealant. Call them to recover the car, thats what the service is for if your happy to wait for recovery.
My OPC group is Jardine (East London/Cambridge/Colchester). 4 year major require spark plug change which is a big part of the cost.
Also my service manager applied a little common sense that if you have porsche assist why both with new tyre sealant. Call them to recover the car, thats what the service is for if your happy to wait for recovery.
Understand the work that's involved in a 4 year and they itemise spark plug change at £279.94 (ex-VAT) but then the major maintenance at £795.46 (ex-VAT) is made up of a number of items that appear as padding for margin.
Not bothered with the tyre sealant, it's advisory and thinking same as yours.
Don't mind paying a fair price but had a major on one of my other cars last year and it was around £1k.
AJB88 said:
Sytner OPC wanted about £1600 for 4 year on my 981 CS.
I went with local specialist DW Performance in the end, the owner used to be the mechanic at the Sytner OPC.
That sounds like a lot of money for routine servicing. Is OPC servicing a condition of the extended warranty?I went with local specialist DW Performance in the end, the owner used to be the mechanic at the Sytner OPC.
jcosh said:
That sounds like a lot of money for routine servicing. Is OPC servicing a condition of the extended warranty?
Yeah, no getting round it. So they get you with the service pricing, then they charge you for the 111-point check which you need for the warranty, then they get you for the warranty.I didn't bother with the OPC warranty. The only thing that would have made me purchase it would have been as security against the failure of third gear but sufficient claims prompted recall.
Salesman also said that as I had Manthey Racing side intake grills fitted, they'd have to be taken off to ensure elgibility for the warranty. I'm waiting for them to come up with a different warranty for cars that are tracked.
JZM came in at half the price on the service.
Mutema said:
Salesman also said that as I had Manthey Racing side intake grills fitted, they'd have to be taken off to ensure elgibility for the warranty. I'm waiting for them to come up with a different warranty for cars that are tracked.
To highlight the absurdity of this .... wasn't there a recall on the 718 to fit grills to stop people from igniting their own cars - with cigarette butts out of the window?? LMAO.Gassing Station | Porsche General | Top of Page | What's New | My Stuff