Service cost 118d (2008)

[rich_vw]

Hi there,

Coming up to first service time for the car, local dealer has quoted £212 for the service (plus £15 for a 'courtesy car'), just wondered how this compared to other places within the country or if anyone has better / cheaper option within North Wales / Chester area.

Cheers.

[mike325112]

Its condition based servicing so it depends what the car says it needs. If it is just an oil service that sounds quite expensive. I paid £120 for an oil service at a main dealer last year.

[rich_vw]

It was purely a quote over the phone...mileage is at some 14k so wouldn't think it'll need to much else (break pads and the like)!

[LocoBlade]

Ive just been quoted similar for the first service on my 123d, which includes oil service and microfilter (cabin air con filter) change adding an additional £45 on top of the oil change (the filter is £30). The actual labour is only about £50 in total though, the big markup is on oil so ask for a breakdown in price and you'll probably find they're charging you about £100 for just over 5L of oil, in which case say you'll supply your own.

You could get the correct spec of Castrol from Halfords for about £50 or a bit cheaper if you have time to order from Opie oils, go on the Castrol website if you don't know what you need, something like Castrol Edge 0w30 I think. I got 10L of oil (ie enough for 2 services) for £85 delivered, so Ive saved about £60 on the service.

[E21_Ross]

LocoBlade said:

Ive just been quoted similar for the first service on my 123d, which includes oil service and microfilter (cabin air con filter) change adding an additional £45 on top of the oil change (the filter is £30). The actual labour is only about £50 in total though, the big markup is on oil so ask for a breakdown in price and you'll probably find they're charging you about £100 for just over 5L of oil, in which case say you'll supply your own.

You could get the correct spec of Castrol from Halfords for about £50 or a bit cheaper if you have time to order from Opie oils, go on the Castrol website if you don't know what you need, something like Castrol Edge 0w30 I think. I got 10L of oil (ie enough for 2 services) for £85 delivered, so Ive saved about £60 on the service.

shouldn't be that much on oil. the E92 M3 had an oil service the other day, and it was a little over 8 litres of oil at around 14-15quid each. 1litre top up bottles from bmw are £17. and i'm guessing that oil would be more expensive...?

Edited by E21_Ross on Wednesday 27th May 13:18

[LocoBlade]

Mine uses 5.2L of Castrol TWS (AKA Edge 10w60) which is the same as M3 / M5s etc use so probably the same as what you had. Prices undoubtedly vary but around here (Hants/Surrey border) Ive been quoted around the same price from two different dealers, and both times the breakdown in price has been £90+VAT just for supplying the oil, not including labour or filter. Filter was around £15 on top then another £40+ VAT labour giving a total of about £170 for the oilchange service.

Edit: I see you're in Hants too, which dealer did you get the E92 serviced at out of interest?

Edited by LocoBlade on Wednesday 27th May 18:43

[rich_vw]

Hadn't realised that the oil could hike the price up so much, thanks for the tip, will drop in for a breakdown!