£22k Bentley Continental GT - running costs?

[Rollcage]

E30M3SE said:

Probably due to the "odds and sods".

If you take the labour fee and the service cost as separate items (as the labour is more than the service), they alone add up to much more than the quoted total.

[k-ink]

That service is nothing more than oil. No tyres, no brakes, no clutch, nothing going wrong. So in essence the cheapest service you will ever see for the most minimal routine is a grand.

[Finlandia]

E30M3SE said:

Rollcage said:

RESSE said:

25/05/2012 Service by main dealer for our 2007 car with 25,426 miles, and I am pleasantly surprised by the invoice.

Number Five Service £582.00
MOT £54.85
Environmental Disposal Charge £16.50
Oil filter element £17.51
Assy pollen filters £70.00
Darin plug sump £3.00
Remote battery £2.00
Mobil engine oil £140.40
Labour 653.35

A few "odds and sods" - total with VAT £1,056.13.

Confused - it doesn't add up correctly?

Probably due to the "odds and sods".

If one counts the labour as £53.35 it adds up with the odds and sods put on.

[anonymous-user]

k-ink said:

That service is nothing more than oil. No tyres, no brakes, no clutch, nothing going wrong. So in essence the cheapest service you will ever see for the most minimal routine is a grand.

Yes, it seems to be quite normal.

[RESSE]

"Typos"

[flatline84]

Thats a 1k oil change

[Trommel]

markcoznottz said:

as for the head gasket issue, maybe you could have the gasket and head bolts fabricated, but then you really are into the realms of fantasy.

Don't be silly. Once they're old enough to be out of the main dealer network, demand for parts will be there - they have made tens of thousands of them.

Having a run of head gaskets (for example) made is neither difficult nor expensive. There's a huge industry supporting this sort of thing.

[k-ink]

flatline84 said:

Thats a 1k oil change

Or £950 profit. Not bad. Imagine if it had an electrical or mechanical fault requiring some real work. You could a a zero on that bill.

[Face for Radio]

When my dad took possession of my grandad's 1971 Aston Martin DBS (which incidentally was in a bit of a sorry way) we flicked through the service history and found one from the early nineties which was in the region of £9,000.

I'll never forget looking at that number at the bottom, and very early on in my life it made me realise that running an aspirational car in that league requires an income that needs to be regularly and healthily topped up.

Good thing the CGT doesn't have ceramic brakes. Replacing a front pair of discs would definitely make your butt hole pucker up.

[markcoznottz]

Trommel said:

Don't be silly. Once they're old enough to be out of the main dealer network, demand for parts will be there - they have made tens of thousands of them.

Having a run of head gaskets (for example) made is neither difficult nor expensive. There's a huge industry supporting this sort of thing.

I wasn't referring to the actual costs of the parts mentioned, just the fact that these cars will be utterly worthless past a certain age, granted the oldest cars would be broken, but to which cars would those parts go to? Certainly not anything in the main dealer network, any remaining cars outside of the main dealers will themselves be old. The demographics of who actually buys these cars new and runs them for a few years will be people who can afford it, as ever it comes down to who exactly buys these cars and runs them when they get old. Several owners on this thread have told of the numbers they have dropped on these cars, they make sense new, the numbers just don't add up used.

[markcoznottz]

Face for Radio said:

When my dad took possession of my grandad's 1971 Aston Martin DBS (which incidentally was in a bit of a sorry way) we flicked through the service history and found one from the early nineties which was in the region of £9,000.

I'll never forget looking at that number at the bottom, and very early on in my life it made me realise that running an aspirational car in that league requires an income that needs to be regularly and healthily topped up.

Good thing the CGT doesn't have ceramic brakes. Replacing a front pair of discs would definitely make your butt hole pucker up.

How is your sphincter? some models did come with ceramic discs.

[J4CKO]

flatline84 said:

Thats a 1k oil change

Yep, that is how I saw it as well, still I guess that is the price to play, being able to be pleasantly surprised at a 1k invoce for an oil change and minor fettling.

I was leafing through the service history on my old 944 and there sre some two and three grand invoices for the lady that had it before, she got charged £200 for a gear knob, I can safely say I wont be paying a two grand invoice on it, my oil change will cost about £30, only charge will be £400/500 or so for a belt service as it is quite involved.

[Face for Radio]

markcoznottz said:

How is your sphincter? some models did come with ceramic discs.

I'd be interested to hear how much they are, I've heard figures for DB9 and GT3 RS ceramic discs and that made the old sphincter tighten up.

Very common for the GT3 RS boys to remove the ceramics and use steels for track work and then replace them again later, as it's a horribly expensive pastime.

[George H]

Face for Radio said:

I'd be interested to hear how much they are, I've heard figures for DB9 and GT3 RS ceramic discs and that made the old sphincter tighten up.

They never did CCM brakes for the DB9 - the 19" wheels won't fit over them. They do for the DBS, Virage and V12V. Apparently over £10k for a new set.

[blugnu]

You might be lucky - maybe the owner has just had a massive bill and though 'sod it'?

I know someone who got rid of an F355 when 'something went wrong with the gearbox' and it cost him. in his words "more than a new Astra" to get it fixed. So once he had it back, he sold it (and bought an AMG of some sort, so I'm sure he still keeps some mechanics in work ...)

[acer12]

flatline84 said:

And the internet guy can probably sell it for 5 grand less since he has spent about 20 grand less on repairs?

If I have learned anything in life, its that it will eventually sell, its simply a matter of price.

How would you save twenty grand on repairs?

[flatline84]

meant servicing - which is essentially an espresso and an oil change with the odd filter

[bergxu]

yonex said:

but I cant think of many better things to spend the money on myself.

Turbo R

[911Thrasher]

Face for Radio said:

Very common for the GT3 RS boys to remove the ceramics and use steels for track work and then replace them again later, as it's a horribly expensive pastime.

I ran numerous tracks with my PCCB (997.1 RS), now at 30kmiles, and never had an issue - also know of many owners who did the same.

But yeah they cost 10kGBP (all around) to flip if something goes wrong

[911Thrasher]

anonymous said:

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Ahahahah as if every 986/996 porsche engine was blowing up! And no Ferrari can do London-Monaco on a single engine, etc.