Most outrageous service cost?

Most outrageous service cost?

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rix

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2,776 posts

189 months

Monday 24th April 2017
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First service due on the derv TT (Yes I know - how very PH!) so booked it in with the local dealer. Inspection 1 service so only parts changed are oil and filter. Obviously they will spend hours meticulously checking every moving part bit still blown away at the price....




....£454.40.


(plus £31.35 if the pollen filter is changed).


Anyone beat this for such humdrumness?

ging84

8,828 posts

145 months

Monday 24th April 2017
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if you did not vote with your feet you are part of the problem

Aeroresh

1,429 posts

231 months

Monday 24th April 2017
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Pretty bad although I'm just booking my Bentley Continental v8s in for its first service.

Same essence as your TT but its.......£1075 inc parts!!!!

Yes, I know, if you can afford the car, you can afford the service but no one likes having mick taken out of them.

Its endemic to every brand these days. I think the £150 service are long gone in the franchise world.

rix

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2,776 posts

189 months

Monday 24th April 2017
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Local specialist indy is £139 using genuine parts. Audi apparently price match. I'm awaiting confirmation that the dealer will do so (and expecting some vague excuse as to why not). I hate that they can get away with such blatant inflation of costs! If they do match it I'm inclined to buy the indy a crate of beer to alleviate my guilt at not supporting them!

rix

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2,776 posts

189 months

Monday 24th April 2017
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Aeroresh said:
.......£1075 inc parts!!!!.
Equally obscene!

750turbo

6,164 posts

223 months

Monday 24th April 2017
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rix said:
First service due on the derv TT (Yes I know - how very PH!) so booked it in with the local dealer. Inspection 1 service so only parts changed are oil and filter. Obviously they will spend hours meticulously checking every moving part bit still blown away at the price....




....£454.40.


(plus £31.35 if the pollen filter is changed).


Anyone beat this for such humdrumness?
Dear God!!!

Is this the VAG variable mileage stuff?

rix

Original Poster:

2,776 posts

189 months

Monday 24th April 2017
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Interestingly (or not) I've just checked Audi fixed price servicing and if the car was 3 years old or more it would be £164....

New car tax takes on a different meaning!

rix

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2,776 posts

189 months

Monday 24th April 2017
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750turbo said:
Dear God!!!

Is this the VAG variable mileage stuff?
It is but as far as I know it's the same oil/price regardless...

Monkeylegend

26,226 posts

230 months

Monday 24th April 2017
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Don't buy a Veyron then.

Conscript

1,378 posts

120 months

Monday 24th April 2017
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I've just paid £613 for the 60K mile service on my GT86, primarily because it involves a spark plug change - which on a Boxer engine is a royal pain in the rear (I believe the engine has to be lifted and partially disassembled in order to do it). But that price also included oil/filter, air filter, cabin filter, brake fluid change, differential oil change and a full wheel alignment, all from a trusted independent.

It was a book time of 3.4 hours, and I had been expecting this service to be expensive, but it's looking decidedly cheap compared to £450 for an oil change eek

Alucidnation

16,810 posts

169 months

Monday 24th April 2017
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If the dealer can come reasonably close, i would let them do it.

A dealer stamp in the service book could save you some hassle in the future, especially if it comes to any goodwill from them out of warranty.

Sa Calobra

37,010 posts

210 months

Monday 24th April 2017
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Conscript said:
I've just paid £613 for the 60K mile service on my GT86, primarily because it involves a spark plug change - which on a Boxer engine is a royal pain in the rear (I believe the engine has to be lifted and partially disassembled in order to do it). But that price also included oil/filter, air filter, cabin filter, brake fluid change, differential oil change and a full wheel alignment, all from a trusted independent.

It was a book time of 3.4 hours, and I had been expecting this service to be expensive, but it's looking decidedly cheap compared to £450 for an oil change eek
I've owned 3 Subaru 2.0 engines. I'm sure it's not that fiddly. Unless Toyota inserts the engine upside down and sideways.

Sump

5,484 posts

166 months

Monday 24th April 2017
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Aston, £1350 for an oil change, yes quite literally.

_Rich_

966 posts

171 months

Monday 24th April 2017
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Roughly £800 for an audi A3 2.0 turbo. that included cambelt, water pump, dsg gearbox oil plus other serviceable bits. That was price matched with a specialist.

Conscript

1,378 posts

120 months

Monday 24th April 2017
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Sa Calobra said:
Conscript said:
I've just paid £613 for the 60K mile service on my GT86, primarily because it involves a spark plug change - which on a Boxer engine is a royal pain in the rear (I believe the engine has to be lifted and partially disassembled in order to do it). But that price also included oil/filter, air filter, cabin filter, brake fluid change, differential oil change and a full wheel alignment, all from a trusted independent.

It was a book time of 3.4 hours, and I had been expecting this service to be expensive, but it's looking decidedly cheap compared to £450 for an oil change eek
I've owned 3 Subaru 2.0 engines. I'm sure it's not that fiddly. Unless Toyota inserts the engine upside down and sideways.
Sorry, I meant a pain in the rear specifically for the Boxer in this car - I'm guessing that it's packaged differently in other Subaru models. I found a copy of the official service manual procedure for doing it in the GT86/BRZ - I'm sure it can be done by a home mechanic, but it's not something I'll be attempting on my driveway.

red_slr

17,122 posts

188 months

Monday 24th April 2017
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To be fair quite often on high end stuff there are software updates to be done, various things to adjust and grease etc. They might just say its a basic oil change but IME they might spend several hours on the car.

Axionknight

8,505 posts

134 months

Monday 24th April 2017
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Sump said:
Aston, £1350 for an oil change, yes quite literally.
Did you tell them to fk off? I could be as rich as Bill Gates but even then I'd be miffed at that - I appreciate that a hulking great V8 or V12 will need a good dose of oil, but that's criminal.

I have never had any real surprises in honesty, I did most of the work myself on the cars that I have owned previously, I currently have a Civic Type R and Honda were doing three services for five hundred quid - it's on a PCP agreement so it'll probably only see two of those (crafty of them) but I took it on anyway (not adding it to the financed amount of course) as there's always the off chance that I keep the car longer than the three year agreement (which, as it stands, I probably will) so I'll eek another service out of 'em!

TheDrBrian

5,444 posts

221 months

Monday 24th April 2017
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Axionknight said:
Sump said:
Aston, £1350 for an oil change, yes quite literally.
Did you tell them to fk off? I could be as rich as Bill Gates but even then I'd be miffed at that - I appreciate that a hulking great V8 or V12 will need a good dose of oil, but that's criminal.

I have never had any real surprises in honesty, I did most of the work myself on the cars that I have owned previously, I currently have a Civic Type R and Honda were doing three services for five hundred quid - it's on a PCP agreement so it'll probably only see two of those (crafty of them) but I took it on anyway (not adding it to the financed amount of course) as there's always the off chance that I keep the car longer than the three year agreement (which, as it stands, I probably will) so I'll eek another service out of 'em!
I suppose with an Aston you want to keep the warranty

del mar

2,838 posts

198 months

Monday 24th April 2017
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Sump said:
Aston, £1350 for an oil change, yes quite literally.
Lambo is similar, but it does include a "visual inspection"

Buster73

5,042 posts

152 months

Monday 24th April 2017
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My old man had a Lexus 400 many moons ago , 80's iirc.

Big service inc cam belt was over £1200 then , a friend of his worked down the country as a DP , he rang him for advice and the advice was pay the bill pdq as it was less than it should have been !