Defender 1st service...HOW MUCH?
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Just been quoted £500 for the first annual service on my Defender.
Now I've had this before with an Evoque where they wanted to charge me ridiculous money.
What does a 1st service entail and how does it come to this money.
What makes it worse is that it has to be done annually where as most cars these days are every 2 or 3 years even.
What are your thoughts?
Now I've had this before with an Evoque where they wanted to charge me ridiculous money.
What does a 1st service entail and how does it come to this money.
What makes it worse is that it has to be done annually where as most cars these days are every 2 or 3 years even.
What are your thoughts?
vpr said:
Just been quoted £500 for the first annual service on my Defender.
Now I've had this before with an Evoque where they wanted to charge me ridiculous money.
What does a 1st service entail and how does it come to this money.
What makes it worse is that it has to be done annually where as most cars these days are every 2 or 3 years even.
What are your thoughts?
I think the large part of the problem is:Now I've had this before with an Evoque where they wanted to charge me ridiculous money.
What does a 1st service entail and how does it come to this money.
What makes it worse is that it has to be done annually where as most cars these days are every 2 or 3 years even.
What are your thoughts?
1. It's a dealership
2. LR don't care about affordable cars or utility vehicles. The new RRS is £80k!!!
Which is frankly bordering on supercar levels of money. Thus they are tending to charge this amount too.So you will be massively over paying for labour and probably paying 2-3x more for parts.
It's also worth noting that the large part of any service is to "check" something, but not actually do anything about it.
I suspect all you are really paying for is a simple oil and filter change, maybe an air filter (might not be as these might not be done at every service) and maybe a grease of the props. And that's about it. Oh they'll plug the car into a diagnostic unit too.
Defenders are not complex and they are not costly to maintain or service. But LR will happily charge you king's ransom while bending you over a barrel.
As 300 says, if you look at the service check list (you can find copies via google), there is a lot of 'Checking' involved. Thing is, it's probably circa 3hrs work and with the labour rate, it quickly adds up!!!
Stick an oil change in there and you quickly get to your total!!
The Defender, whilst simple, can be quite time consuming.
Yer pays yer money and makes yer choice.
M
Stick an oil change in there and you quickly get to your total!!
The Defender, whilst simple, can be quite time consuming.
Yer pays yer money and makes yer choice.
M
hilly10 said:
Glad I took out the £499 five year service package on my Evoque
I personally find it amazing that people really believe that service packages or main dealer servicing actually result in the car being serviced (much at all) - I think you'd be doing well if they really change the oil. The situation it benefits is of course for re-sale, where a whole other raft of muppets think that 'FMDSH' means anything good for the car in question.
I buy cars new and keep for a minimum of 10 years/100,000 miles - so for me it really matters what does or does not go on behind the shutters. It's amazing for example that people seem now to have been reprogrammed by the main dealer industry to think that things like discs need changing relatively regularly. Well yeah - if you fail to change the pads & let the discs score - bonus to the dealer service department.
I'd only ever use a trusted indie - & if you live in Northants, I'll forward you details.
Main dealer is important for resale but I know that they're forever keen to replace discs and pads..
Case in point was a new Nissan GTR which when serviced at its first 6k told me it needed pads which I ignored, again at 12k which I ignored and at 18 where they said it really does need pads but also discs. Again I ignored and finally changed the pads at 24k but the light was still not on.
Case in point was a new Nissan GTR which when serviced at its first 6k told me it needed pads which I ignored, again at 12k which I ignored and at 18 where they said it really does need pads but also discs. Again I ignored and finally changed the pads at 24k but the light was still not on.
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I personally find it amazing that people really believe that service packages or main dealer servicing actually result in the car being serviced (much at all) - I think you'd be doing well if they really change the oil.
The situation it benefits is of course for re-sale, where a whole other raft of muppets think that 'FMDSH' means anything good for the car in question.
I buy cars new and keep for a minimum of 10 years/100,000 miles - so for me it really matters what does or does not go on behind the shutters. It's amazing for example that people seem now to have been reprogrammed by the main dealer industry to think that things like discs need changing relatively regularly. Well yeah - if you fail to change the pads & let the discs score - bonus to the dealer service department.
I'd only ever use a trusted indie - & if you live in Northants, I'll forward you details.
I totally agree with what you say, but as you point out if you are only keeping the car 3 years then FSH by main dealer is king. I will only keep the Evoque 2/3 years so acquiring the service package made sound financial sense due to the first service on the Evoque costing anywhere from £285 to £360. Also the service package is transferable so is atractive come resale. My vans which I buy new get, serviced by an independent which is a full annual service with an Oil service 6 monthly doing the miles I do I want it to be tip top.
I personally find it amazing that people really believe that service packages or main dealer servicing actually result in the car being serviced (much at all) - I think you'd be doing well if they really change the oil.
The situation it benefits is of course for re-sale, where a whole other raft of muppets think that 'FMDSH' means anything good for the car in question.
I buy cars new and keep for a minimum of 10 years/100,000 miles - so for me it really matters what does or does not go on behind the shutters. It's amazing for example that people seem now to have been reprogrammed by the main dealer industry to think that things like discs need changing relatively regularly. Well yeah - if you fail to change the pads & let the discs score - bonus to the dealer service department.
I'd only ever use a trusted indie - & if you live in Northants, I'll forward you details.
I totally agree with what you say, but as you point out if you are only keeping the car 3 years then FSH by main dealer is king. I will only keep the Evoque 2/3 years so acquiring the service package made sound financial sense due to the first service on the Evoque costing anywhere from £285 to £360. Also the service package is transferable so is atractive come resale. My vans which I buy new get, serviced by an independent which is a full annual service with an Oil service 6 monthly doing the miles I do I want it to be tip top.
Edited by hilly10 on Friday 20th December 16:51
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