Most outrageous service cost?
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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?
You were done! It's not that much! Everyone know oil is expensive But 5 litres @ £15 is £75. It's an hour for a first service so lets add £160 Filter is going to be £20. Sump plug will be £2 or so. Another £10 for screenwash. Lets round it up a bit to £120 parts and oil....£454.40.
(plus £31.35 if the pollen filter is changed).
Anyone beat this for such humdrumness?
Still NOT £450!
jmorgan said:
I hate the £1.50 I get charged for the washer bottle top up. I top the damn thing up before it goes on.
Me too!!Apart from the one time a main dealer topped up my wife's MINI's washer bottle, which had been low enough that the warning light had been on. It was on their TLC servicing pack thing, so nothing to pay anyway, and not charged for it. I was pleasantly surprised!
Until...
She phoned me one frosty morning a week or so later to say washers weren't working... They'd only gone and filled it up with plain tap water!!!
After that I had to remember to brim it before taking it near them even with their pre-paid servicing.
I hate taking cars to garages! It was almost a relief when the TLC pack ran out and I could just service it myself!
My tractor was 90 grand 4 years ago. It's on a service contract with the main dealer and gets serviced every 500 engine hours.
Some of the services are over £2000, but...
The dealer come to the tractor. Their van will be full of oil and boxes of filters on the big services and it will take them most of a day. They may bring 200 litres of oil with them and boxes and boxes of filters. Engine oil filter, 3 fuel filters, Adblue filter, inner and outer air filter, cab filter that's bigger than a car air filter, transmission filter, iirc there's 5 hydraulic filters. They'll then plug the lap top in (the software is about 5 grand) and check the error codes and often put software and physical updates on the machine.
Some of the services are over £2000, but...
The dealer come to the tractor. Their van will be full of oil and boxes of filters on the big services and it will take them most of a day. They may bring 200 litres of oil with them and boxes and boxes of filters. Engine oil filter, 3 fuel filters, Adblue filter, inner and outer air filter, cab filter that's bigger than a car air filter, transmission filter, iirc there's 5 hydraulic filters. They'll then plug the lap top in (the software is about 5 grand) and check the error codes and often put software and physical updates on the machine.
Willy Nilly said:
My tractor was 90 grand 4 years ago. It's on a service contract with the main dealer and gets serviced every 500 engine hours.
Some of the services are over £2000, but...
The dealer come to the tractor. Their van will be full of oil and boxes of filters on the big services and it will take them most of a day. They may bring 200 litres of oil with them and boxes and boxes of filters. Engine oil filter, 3 fuel filters, Adblue filter, inner and outer air filter, cab filter that's bigger than a car air filter, transmission filter, iirc there's 5 hydraulic filters. They'll then plug the lap top in (the software is about 5 grand) and check the error codes and often put software and physical updates on the machine.
I run a JCB and we look after it in house now due to its age and a full filter kit for it (which as you say is a lot of boxes!) is about £700+VAT. The air filters are the best part of £150 on their own. That's before fluids. We do ours every year and its a full days worth of work without any issues.Some of the services are over £2000, but...
The dealer come to the tractor. Their van will be full of oil and boxes of filters on the big services and it will take them most of a day. They may bring 200 litres of oil with them and boxes and boxes of filters. Engine oil filter, 3 fuel filters, Adblue filter, inner and outer air filter, cab filter that's bigger than a car air filter, transmission filter, iirc there's 5 hydraulic filters. They'll then plug the lap top in (the software is about 5 grand) and check the error codes and often put software and physical updates on the machine.
I remember being outraged by getting my mum's Vectra serviced back in the day - about 1995. It was £280 for the easiest oil and filter change in the world - I can do it on the drive in about 20 minutes. And that was when £280 was proper money.
I think I'd probably come out in hives if I set foot in a main dealer these days.
I think I'd probably come out in hives if I set foot in a main dealer these days.
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?
Audi (and most dealers now) are taking the piss....£454.40.
(plus £31.35 if the pollen filter is changed).
Anyone beat this for such humdrumness?
in the old days once a year you would shove the damn thing in and they would do everything that was needed based on its millage, now they charge for extras like the pollen filter and have split out the gearbox and diff services (more bites at the apple).
but the biggest piss take is Audi's 'inspection service' where they do nothing to the car but check it for things they can charge you to fix, you pay them over £200 to find work forthemselves ...
VW are no better, the OH's car went in for a service and they went over finding everything they could charge for and quoted over 2k !!! its only worth 4k
KungFuPanda said:
daveinhampshire said:
A8 D3 4.2TDI Full service - £795
I much prefer US servicing, replace oil and filters and leave.
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. I much prefer US servicing, replace oil and filters and leave.
Rich_W said:
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?
You were done! It's not that much! Everyone know oil is expensive But 5 litres @ £15 is £75. It's an hour for a first service so lets add £160 Filter is going to be £20. Sump plug will be £2 or so. Another £10 for screenwash. Lets round it up a bit to £120 parts and oil....£454.40.
(plus £31.35 if the pollen filter is changed).
Anyone beat this for such humdrumness?
Still NOT £450!
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