Spyder Major Service
Discussion
My car is four years old in June and I plan on booking the car in to have cruise fitted as well. Have been quoted £1729 all in to do the work. What discount should I be asking for and which dealer would you recommend.
I am close to Reading but would be happy using Guildford, West London or Silverstone.
I am close to Reading but would be happy using Guildford, West London or Silverstone.
Christ that's dear!!
I had cruise retro fitted to mine 2 years ago. Took another year to get the fuel gauge working again. Turned out I had the long range fuel tank fitted which never made it on to the build sheet. Buggered up the calibration no end!
Major service should be less than a grand and I paid less than £400 for cruise. PCGB discount of 10% useful this time of year...
I had cruise retro fitted to mine 2 years ago. Took another year to get the fuel gauge working again. Turned out I had the long range fuel tank fitted which never made it on to the build sheet. Buggered up the calibration no end!
Major service should be less than a grand and I paid less than £400 for cruise. PCGB discount of 10% useful this time of year...
The work was to include service, brake fluid, spark plugs, airbag check and the cost of fitting cruise. Cruise was quoted at £564 and the service, brake fluid, airbag check, spark plugs etc at £1165.
I do not have A/c and the car has only covered 7900 miles.
Do all dealers allow a 10% discount if you are a PCGB member. I can't see anything about this in the Membership Benefits area on the PCGB site?
I do not have A/c and the car has only covered 7900 miles.
Do all dealers allow a 10% discount if you are a PCGB member. I can't see anything about this in the Membership Benefits area on the PCGB site?
Plugs are every 4 years. They're not something you want to discover are seized in place after 8 years... I agree at a low mileage they will be physically ok however. My car's due it's major in August. I guess I'll bite the opc bullet rather than go to a specialist who may be prepared to remove, check and re-fit the plugs after 9000 miles.
I have just had my 987.2 Cayman serviced (Major one) and it was £610 without the the sparkplug change.
It is a fixed priced system from Porsche as you can see from the website below.
http://porscheownerservices.co.uk/servicing/?model...
It is a fixed priced system from Porsche as you can see from the website below.
http://porscheownerservices.co.uk/servicing/?model...
My Spyder is booked into mid Sussex for its 4 year service next week. I have been quoted £1190 for service, brake fluid change , air bag check, replace tyre repair gunk (4 year shelf like apparently) and spark plug change - though at ony 10000 miles I have questioned need for this. The Porsche WEB site does now say that they change plugs only if necessary - not sure what that means. Unfortunately, need to rear tyres as well so an expensive week coming up (using OPC for tyres as I hate the likes of Kwik Fit. OPC a bit more exopensive but less likely to damage the wheels (I hope) and don;t have to hang arounf filthy service area!!!
Johnthepotter said:
My Spyder is booked into mid Sussex for its 4 year service next week. I have been quoted £1190 for service, brake fluid change , air bag check, replace tyre repair gunk (4 year shelf like apparently) and spark plug change - though at ony 10000 miles I have questioned need for this. The Porsche WEB site does now say that they change plugs only if necessary - not sure what that means. Unfortunately, need to rear tyres as well so an expensive week coming up (using OPC for tyres as I hate the likes of Kwik Fit. OPC a bit more exopensive but less likely to damage the wheels (I hope) and don;t have to hang arounf filthy service area!!!
Event Tyres?They can fit on your driveway for a very good price (cheaper than anyone else for the 500 when I last used them) as you sip coffee in yoru own homw.
I was very impressed with their care and service as well.
The Porsche GB group of dealers (Reading, Guildford, Hatfield and West London) offer special labour pricing for cars over 4 years old called "Forever Porsche". It doesn't say it includes fixed service pricing but does offer discounts of 30% on labour and 10% on parts. One would have thought therefore the cruise control retrofit should be cheaper than for a newer car.
The scheme also includes free MOT, free fitting on bulbs and wipers and car wash club (for what that is worth).
If using one of these OPC make sure you get the offer prices. When I used one for fitting a fog light bulb I had to explain to the service receptionist what the scheme included.
The scheme also includes free MOT, free fitting on bulbs and wipers and car wash club (for what that is worth).
If using one of these OPC make sure you get the offer prices. When I used one for fitting a fog light bulb I had to explain to the service receptionist what the scheme included.
if the car has done low miles whos to say the opc doesnt replace or just removes and refits and charges you for a set of new ones.i changed the airfilter on my fiesta which is 5 years old and it had never been changed(date stamped)although the previous owner was charged twice.likewise changed the plugs yesterday and they had never been removed yet again previous owner charged for new ones.if your car has low miles then i would ask the opc to remove and refit if they are ok a good opc would do this.plugs are good for 30-40k so why throw £100 away on new ones!
The plugs are good for many more miles than most people do in a Spyder in 4 years. I understand the issue is to do with them getting sealed in the seating, which stinks of them not being fitted "properly" in the first place. A lot of indies use some sort of sealant/grease/lubricant to ensure that theirs will still come out after many more than 4 years.
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