Is it worth buying the oil for an OPC service??
Discussion
P.S The above isn't aimed at you Cab, the thread below was "amusing"
Politely discussed here previously : - www.pistonheads.co.uk/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&t=351817&r=4785869&hm=55286#4785869
Edited by slippydiff on Sunday 1st April 00:47
sherman klump said:
Personally i dont know how people can do that.
I'd feel such a cheapskate.
Driving a Porsche and cant afford to pay for the oil.
Come on people,stop doing this.
We're Porsche owners.
Meant to have a few quid.
Dont be be so stingy
I'd feel such a cheapskate.
Driving a Porsche and cant afford to pay for the oil.
Come on people,stop doing this.
We're Porsche owners.
Meant to have a few quid.
Dont be be so stingy
It has nothing to do with whether you can afford it.
If you dont need to pay £100.00 extra just for the OPC to supply then why do it?
sherman klump said:
Personally i dont know how people can do that.
I'd feel such a cheapskate.
Driving a Porsche and cant afford to pay for the oil.
Come on people,stop doing this.
We're Porsche owners.
Meant to have a few quid.
Dont be be so stingy
I'd feel such a cheapskate.
Driving a Porsche and cant afford to pay for the oil.
Come on people,stop doing this.
We're Porsche owners.
Meant to have a few quid.
Dont be be so stingy
Do you visit your OPC to top up your oil as well?
sherman klump said:
Personally i dont know how people can do that.
I'd feel such a cheapskate.
Driving a Porsche and cant afford to pay for the oil.
Come on people,stop doing this.
We're Porsche owners.
Meant to have a few quid.
Dont be be so stingy
I'd feel such a cheapskate.
Driving a Porsche and cant afford to pay for the oil.
Come on people,stop doing this.
We're Porsche owners.
Meant to have a few quid.
Dont be be so stingy
Putting Tesco Value Oil in your Porsche is being a cheapskate.
Buying Mobil1 for around a third of what an OPC would charge for exactly the same thing is simply being prudent IMHO.
I for one don't have bottomless pockets and a few quid saved is money for fuel etc.
Just do it.
If you have time order in some Silkolene Pro S from Opie oils. Better than Mobil, if more expensive than the Mobil from Costco (which is 0W40 and my OPC said to use 5W40, just so you know!).
My OPC had no problem with me supplying my own oil, as I rang to check before hand.
If you have time order in some Silkolene Pro S from Opie oils. Better than Mobil, if more expensive than the Mobil from Costco (which is 0W40 and my OPC said to use 5W40, just so you know!).
My OPC had no problem with me supplying my own oil, as I rang to check before hand.
baptistsan said:
Just do it.
If you have time order in some Silkolene Pro S from Opie oils. Better than Mobil, if more expensive than the Mobil from Costco (which is 0W40 and my OPC said to use 5W40, just so you know!).
My OPC had no problem with me supplying my own oil, as I rang to check before hand.
If you have time order in some Silkolene Pro S from Opie oils. Better than Mobil, if more expensive than the Mobil from Costco (which is 0W40 and my OPC said to use 5W40, just so you know!).
My OPC had no problem with me supplying my own oil, as I rang to check before hand.
Just be careful as Silkolene Pro S isn't Porsche approved any more
Interesting.
I previously bought my own oil (Costco as someone mentioned) and supplied the OPC for the service of my Box S. Saved about £100.
When I asked Leeds OPC recently if I could do that same for the TT, they point blank refused and said this was not possible. I hate the way dealerships have different policies.
As for the stingyness aspect:
To be prudent with money is not stingyness. Like someone said if you can buy exactly the same thing for less, who would not do this. Seems ridiculous to pay over the odds.
I really do think OPCs used to rely on this mentality. Very rich people going into the dealership, money no object, believing anything the service advisors tell them and just signing the cheque at the end.
My brakes were recently diagnosed by OPC as being corroded and that both disc and pads would need replacing all round. Took the car to a well respected indy who said pay me a little labour and I will strip them down and get them looking like new for you. There is no way you need to replace any of these items at this stage. There is plenty of life left in them. Now I second guessed the opinion of the OPC, but how many people would have just handed over their credit cards?
Is this stingy or prudent??? That £1000 saved can go towards my deposit on a Gallardo for instance.
I previously bought my own oil (Costco as someone mentioned) and supplied the OPC for the service of my Box S. Saved about £100.
When I asked Leeds OPC recently if I could do that same for the TT, they point blank refused and said this was not possible. I hate the way dealerships have different policies.
As for the stingyness aspect:
To be prudent with money is not stingyness. Like someone said if you can buy exactly the same thing for less, who would not do this. Seems ridiculous to pay over the odds.
I really do think OPCs used to rely on this mentality. Very rich people going into the dealership, money no object, believing anything the service advisors tell them and just signing the cheque at the end.
My brakes were recently diagnosed by OPC as being corroded and that both disc and pads would need replacing all round. Took the car to a well respected indy who said pay me a little labour and I will strip them down and get them looking like new for you. There is no way you need to replace any of these items at this stage. There is plenty of life left in them. Now I second guessed the opinion of the OPC, but how many people would have just handed over their credit cards?
Is this stingy or prudent??? That £1000 saved can go towards my deposit on a Gallardo for instance.
MaKSiNG said:
Interesting.
I previously bought my own oil (Costco as someone mentioned) and supplied the OPC for the service of my Box S. Saved about £100.
When I asked Leeds OPC recently if I could do that same for the TT, they point blank refused and said this was not possible. I hate the way dealerships have different policies.
As for the stingyness aspect:
To be prudent with money is not stingyness. Like someone said if you can buy exactly the same thing for less, who would not do this. Seems ridiculous to pay over the odds.
I really do think OPCs used to rely on this mentality. Very rich people going into the dealership, money no object, believing anything the service advisors tell them and just signing the cheque at the end.
My brakes were recently diagnosed by OPC as being corroded and that both disc and pads would need replacing all round. Took the car to a well respected indy who said pay me a little labour and I will strip them down and get them looking like new for you. There is no way you need to replace any of these items at this stage. There is plenty of life left in them. Now I second guessed the opinion of the OPC, but how many people would have just handed over their credit cards?
Is this stingy or prudent??? That £1000 saved can go towards my deposit on a Gallardo for instance.
I previously bought my own oil (Costco as someone mentioned) and supplied the OPC for the service of my Box S. Saved about £100.
When I asked Leeds OPC recently if I could do that same for the TT, they point blank refused and said this was not possible. I hate the way dealerships have different policies.
As for the stingyness aspect:
To be prudent with money is not stingyness. Like someone said if you can buy exactly the same thing for less, who would not do this. Seems ridiculous to pay over the odds.
I really do think OPCs used to rely on this mentality. Very rich people going into the dealership, money no object, believing anything the service advisors tell them and just signing the cheque at the end.
My brakes were recently diagnosed by OPC as being corroded and that both disc and pads would need replacing all round. Took the car to a well respected indy who said pay me a little labour and I will strip them down and get them looking like new for you. There is no way you need to replace any of these items at this stage. There is plenty of life left in them. Now I second guessed the opinion of the OPC, but how many people would have just handed over their credit cards?
Is this stingy or prudent??? That £1000 saved can go towards my deposit on a Gallardo for instance.
I trust you voted with your feet on this issue ?
POORCARDEALER said:
I understand why dealerships say feck off..........like going out for dinner and taking your own steak, its just not cricket.
Not really. If you want to use that kind of analogy, it's like going to a restaurant and taking your own wine. And there are places that let you do that.
If £100 is neither here nor there to you, let the OPC supply the oil. Most of us, however, take the view that it's £100 better in our pockets than theirs. Why let them make a mark up for supplying the oil when you can provide it yourself?
My car is too old for me to see any value in using OPCs - in fact, quite the contrary: I think it's probably better looked after by someone with more than just a passing familiarity with a car that OPCs probably don't see too many of these days - but I'd certainly be voting with my feet if I had been told that I couldn't supply my own oil as Maksing was, especially since other OPCs seem to be happy to let you do so.
POORCARDEALER said:
I understand why dealerships say feck off..........like going out for dinner and taking your own steak, its just not cricket.
No, it really isn't. When you go out for a meal you are paying for a value added service in so much as they prepare and cook the food, they aren't simply handing you a piece of raw steak and selling it you for three times what Waitrose would charge.
If an OPC sells you oil for the same price as part of a service as they would if you walked in off the street and said "Hello I'd like to buy a litre of Mobil1 please" then I would say you have every right to apply the same logic that says you probably wouldn't walk in off the street and buy it because they're more expensive than Costco/Opie etc.
POORCARDEALER said:
I understand why dealerships say feck off..........like going out for dinner and taking your own steak, its just not cricket.
Fair enough, but considering OPC's buy the oil in bulk and get it alot cheaper than RRP, then charge 3x RRP for merely putting it from one place to another I hardly think its good pricing...
I dont think the fixed price servicing for my 997 c2s is that expensive even if they supply the oil(£400 odd IIRC).For the sake of saving a little its not worth it for me to travel round picking up oil and messing around taking it with the car for service.I understand why people do it but I cant see an OPC doing you any favours if,for instance,you had a borderline warranty claim or needed a bit of goodwill off them.
Just my opinion
Just my opinion
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