BMW Service Pricing Good Value?

[Tim330]

This a 2014 330d. I knew the brakes were due soon. I asked the dealer to apply the value service pricing which they will update the quote with.
The car went in for an oil and filter change so a nice Halloween bonus.

The image I've screengrabbed from the inspection video. Is that £660 for the dust cover/gaiters only? Seems expensive

[sooty61]

I would certainly be getting a quote from an independent garage as these are all basic mechanic jobs, especially on an 11 year old car. The gaiter is about £20 but it does need the suspension strut removing so they are really shafting you on labour. The quotes for the discs and pads is ridiculous.

[Tim330]

I've booked it in with my local independent next week for just under half the price. He told me off for using the main dealer to start with. The coffee wasn't even that good.

[mmm-five]

Mine went in 'fastlane' aka while-u-wait rear pads and brake fluid service.

Got an email about 5 hours later asking which other parts I wanted doing - and if I'd just said "do it" I'd have been £5k down for work that they said was urgent, but suddenly disappeared when I told them it was under AUC warranty and less than 3 months into my ownership.

The biggest cost was £2000 for seized caliper bleed nipples. Seemingly, BMW don't/won't repair them (even though they sell the bleed screws) they'll rather happily rape the customer for £2000 for a pair of new calipers instead!!!!