Most outrageous service cost?

Most outrageous service cost?

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spookly

4,011 posts

94 months

Wednesday 26th April 2017
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Djtemeka said:
60k mile service. £1350-£1600. Can't remember what the wife said.
Car is a Mazda 6 2.2d. I kid you not.
Apparently it's new injectors and cam chain schedule!
What the hell is the point of using a cam chain if it needs to be changed/serviced as often as a cam belt???

anonymous-user

53 months

Wednesday 26th April 2017
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TooMany2cvs said:
janesmith1950 said:
They even sent me videos of them inspecting the tyres etc whilst I was waiting.
They sent you a video of them looking at the tyres... while you were waiting in the next bloody room...?
My head hurts.
Nah, I was stuffing my face in Greggs about a mile away!

They'd marked in chalk the mms left on the tyres and then did a video walk around. I got an email with the link to watch it whilst the service was in progress.

lost in espace

6,136 posts

206 months

Wednesday 26th April 2017
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Our Leaf is in for a major service, it will be £149. Its £99 for a minor one, and some EV'ers say don't bother getting them serviced there is so little to go wrong. You do get recovery and battery warranty included so its worth doing.

My mate had his second service on his Evoque, rear tyres, rear pads and 2 tyres. £1,200.

48Valves

1,926 posts

208 months

Wednesday 26th April 2017
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spookly said:
Djtemeka said:
60k mile service. £1350-£1600. Can't remember what the wife said.
Car is a Mazda 6 2.2d. I kid you not.
Apparently it's new injectors and cam chain schedule!
What the hell is the point of using a cam chain if it needs to be changed/serviced as often as a cam belt???
Cam chain stretch and failure is a big problem on that engine.

Sa Calobra

37,010 posts

210 months

Wednesday 26th April 2017
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48Valves said:
spookly said:
Djtemeka said:
60k mile service. £1350-£1600. Can't remember what the wife said.
Car is a Mazda 6 2.2d. I kid you not.
Apparently it's new injectors and cam chain schedule!
What the hell is the point of using a cam chain if it needs to be changed/serviced as often as a cam belt???
Cam chain stretch and failure is a big problem on that engine.
So the customer pays for a design fault and faulty item? Wow.

Sheepshanks

32,530 posts

118 months

Wednesday 26th April 2017
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Sa Calobra said:
48Valves said:
spookly said:
Djtemeka said:
60k mile service. £1350-£1600. Can't remember what the wife said.
Car is a Mazda 6 2.2d. I kid you not.
Apparently it's new injectors and cam chain schedule!
What the hell is the point of using a cam chain if it needs to be changed/serviced as often as a cam belt???
Cam chain stretch and failure is a big problem on that engine.
So the customer pays for a design fault and faulty item? Wow.
Some owners are getting the "chain alarm" coming on every 20-30K miles.

andySC

1,187 posts

157 months

Wednesday 26th April 2017
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I had a nice Elise SC for a bit, that was £199 for the service at the Dealer, I thought that very reasonable but other than the oil & stamp in the book I doubt very much else was done. Changed that for a Cayman & come service time I was presented with an invoice for around £1200. This included all the fluids (oil, brakes & coolant), aircon re-gas & a kick of the tyres. They did leave me with a 991 for the day so the pill was ever so slightly sugar coated but still a reasonably hefty kick in the nuts.

funkyrobot

18,789 posts

227 months

Wednesday 26th April 2017
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Sa Calobra said:
48Valves said:
spookly said:
Djtemeka said:
60k mile service. £1350-£1600. Can't remember what the wife said.
Car is a Mazda 6 2.2d. I kid you not.
Apparently it's new injectors and cam chain schedule!
What the hell is the point of using a cam chain if it needs to be changed/serviced as often as a cam belt???
Cam chain stretch and failure is a big problem on that engine.
So the customer pays for a design fault and faulty item? Wow.
That really stinks. I thought the latest generation of Mazda diesel had sorted out the diesel issues?

I owned a 2007 3 Sport petrol for six years and took it to 80k miles. Not once did the dealer even mention anything to do with the chain on that model.

Dog Star

16,079 posts

167 months

Wednesday 26th April 2017
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Xtriple129 said:
Try having a 90s Bentley where servicing has been 'deferred' for a while... £10690.13 for the first service in my care! To be fair, that was just a tiny bit more than oil and filters smile
My next door neighbour has a Bentley Continental and he took it into Bentley and it needed a new exhaust on one side and some other stuff (discs etc) and the total was £17k yikes

Mind you he used to have one of those purple Diablo's and that ate clutches at 8K each. And he banged a rear wheel outside the house which was 10K yikes

The Mad Monk

10,474 posts

116 months

Wednesday 26th April 2017
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Mercedes-Benz dealerships do a 7+ service for cars er, 7 years old (although they offered it to me when mine was 6 years old).

I pay £137 for an E Class at MB Brooklands.

Dog Star

16,079 posts

167 months

Wednesday 26th April 2017
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The Mad Monk said:
Mercedes-Benz dealerships do a 7+ service for cars er, 7 years old (although they offered it to me when mine was 6 years old).

I pay £137 for an E Class at MB Brooklands.
This actually pisses me off (although it has benefitted me in the past) - why can they do a discounted rate for older stuff but not newer? Older cars with tons or crud, seized fasteners - no easier to work on.

But we know the answer to that.

Sheepshanks

32,530 posts

118 months

Wednesday 26th April 2017
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The Mad Monk said:
Mercedes-Benz dealerships do a 7+ service for cars er, 7 years old (although they offered it to me when mine was 6 years old).

I pay £137 for an E Class at MB Brooklands.
They're at pains to point out it's not a "proper" MB service though, and it doesn't allow Mobilo warranty and assistance to continue.

Most MB dealers will discount by 50% older cars though - my last B service was £249. They did find 3 grands worth of other "needed" work despite a clean health check a few months earlier and MOT (done by them) with not even an advisory.

Whatty

598 posts

180 months

Wednesday 26th April 2017
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KungFuPanda said:
I've always been interested in the American way of servicing. There seems to be a lot of Jiffy Lube type places which offer very cheap oil changes.
Aaah Jiffy Lube.....

Seduced by the prospect of a quick $19.99 oil change I entrusted a VW to them once.
One cross-threaded sump plug, one bodged helicoil repair, one new oil pan and $500 later I concluded they are cheap for a reason. Education can be an expensive thing.

48Valves

1,926 posts

208 months

Wednesday 26th April 2017
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spookly said:
Djtemeka said:
60k mile service. £1350-£1600. Can't remember what the wife said.
Car is a Mazda 6 2.2d. I kid you not.
Apparently it's new injectors and cam chain schedule!
What the hell is the point of using a cam chain if it needs to be changed/serviced as often as a cam belt???
Cam chain stretch and failure is a big problem on that engine.

MJ85

1,849 posts

173 months

Wednesday 26th April 2017
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Not in the league of others, but still painful.


My mum had a Grande Punto (1.2 litre, 65 raging horses, petrol, new), where servicing at Fiat was £250 a go, for an oil change. Horrible price.

swisstoni

16,850 posts

278 months

Wednesday 26th April 2017
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My approach is to get a fixed price service done at a main dealer (if the car's value justifies it) and get anything that needs proper 'fixing' done at a specialist.


PurpleTurtle

6,940 posts

143 months

Wednesday 26th April 2017
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The Daily Wail is all over this today:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4445994/Fr...

Backstreet Indy In Cheaper Than Shiny Franchised Dealer Shocker!



TooMany2cvs

29,008 posts

125 months

Wednesday 26th April 2017
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PurpleTurtle said:
The Daily Wail is all over this today:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4445994/Fr...

Backstreet Indy In Cheaper Than Shiny Franchised Dealer Shocker!
Porsche dealer in SE "not cheap". Hold the front page.

WTF are they multiplying the dealer's labour charge by 37.5 hours, 52 weeks, and comparing the result with the PM's salary...? <boggle>

Daily Wail said:
The cheapest rate was charged by an independent workshop in Manchester, at just £36.
Oh, hold on. I paid less than that yesterday, nowhere near Manchester. Sssh!

Blanchimont

4,076 posts

121 months

Wednesday 26th April 2017
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Reading through this, I'm not not so sure I got a deal.

Bought a car with a knackered thermostat and a cambelt that needed doing.

Total cost, £720.oddpence.

I didn't think it was too bad, considering it was cambelt, tensioner, water pump, aux tension, aux belt, thermostat, new coolant and a look around as I'd only just bought it.

corozin

2,680 posts

270 months

Wednesday 26th April 2017
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I was told recently that the service dept in my local BMW dealership has to turn over £250,000 a week to remain viable as a cost centre.
If that indicative of brand dealers more widely then perhaps it's no wonder that labour rates are often at least double what the independant specialists charge. It also explains the continuing massive expansion of companies like GSF, TPS and Euro Car Parts as alternative sources to the frankly rip off parts prices you find in most dealers these days (and which often sell better quality branded parts than the OEM stuff)