Most ridiculous service bill.
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I know Veyron wheels and tyres will crop up, but two recent examples from friends spring to mind:
1) Sorting out an Octavia brake problem that ultimately involved discs - £2500.
2) Aston Martin Vanquish service costing £3500 with an advisory to replace brakes at a cost of.....(drumroll).....£7K.
My worst was a Vantage service where I told the dealer not to go above £1500 without calling me and being presented with a bill for £2700. No apology on moaning. Just voted with feet in end. Always email instructions now.
1) Sorting out an Octavia brake problem that ultimately involved discs - £2500.
2) Aston Martin Vanquish service costing £3500 with an advisory to replace brakes at a cost of.....(drumroll).....£7K.
My worst was a Vantage service where I told the dealer not to go above £1500 without calling me and being presented with a bill for £2700. No apology on moaning. Just voted with feet in end. Always email instructions now.
I paid just under £8k for a hydraulic service and a few other bits and bobs on my Arnage last year.That was at a specialist who works at around half the main dealer labour rate.Worth it though-the car is perfect now and as everything is now spot on I shouldn't have another bill like that for a good few years(hopefully)
EDLT said:
Made good copy, but was completely false.flemke said:
EDLT said:
Made good copy, but was completely false.
The service on my Mondeo years back, that kicked me into servicing my own cars.
£440 for a major. Not a large bill by any standards but for the work actually performed it is huge.
Got hold of the forms from ETIS Ford, which have the spec sheets that the mechanics work from to service the.
2 pages of visual checks, change oil, filter, fuel filter and pollon filter. Total parts cost - £40.
So £400 for an hours work (I did it myself the next time, working from a haynes manual, first time ever working on a car in an hour and a half). Thank you Ford, your greed made me a more capable person
£440 for a major. Not a large bill by any standards but for the work actually performed it is huge.
Got hold of the forms from ETIS Ford, which have the spec sheets that the mechanics work from to service the.
2 pages of visual checks, change oil, filter, fuel filter and pollon filter. Total parts cost - £40.
So £400 for an hours work (I did it myself the next time, working from a haynes manual, first time ever working on a car in an hour and a half). Thank you Ford, your greed made me a more capable person
Carrot said:
The service on my Mondeo years back, that kicked me into servicing my own cars.
£440 for a major. Not a large bill by any standards but for the work actually performed it is huge.
Got hold of the forms from ETIS Ford, which have the spec sheets that the mechanics work from to service the.
2 pages of visual checks, change oil, filter, fuel filter and pollon filter. Total parts cost - £40.
So £400 for an hours work (I did it myself the next time, working from a haynes manual, first time ever working on a car in an hour and a half). Thank you Ford, your greed made me a more capable person
For my passat they wanted 600 odd quid , I did want to keep vwsh but not at that cost . A good expensive Indy done the service , mot, new pads and disks ( all vw parts) for 550 £440 for a major. Not a large bill by any standards but for the work actually performed it is huge.
Got hold of the forms from ETIS Ford, which have the spec sheets that the mechanics work from to service the.
2 pages of visual checks, change oil, filter, fuel filter and pollon filter. Total parts cost - £40.
So £400 for an hours work (I did it myself the next time, working from a haynes manual, first time ever working on a car in an hour and a half). Thank you Ford, your greed made me a more capable person
frosted said:
For my passat they wanted 600 odd quid , I did want to keep vwsh but not at that cost . A good expensive Indy done the service , mot, new pads and disks ( all vw parts) for 550
I think I would just have paid the extra £50 to have full main dealer history. We all know main dealer service usually means s
t but the alternatives are usally not much better in my experience.Well if you add in repairs to a service bill then you are going to get some big numbers.
My Cerbera has thrown some big bills my way when in for a service - £2500ish (I choose to forget the exact amount), and more than once. However, these are things that needed to be done as repairs rather than part of the service as such.
The cost of the actual service (the 12K big one) is around the £900 mark, but that includes doing the valve clearances, so not a small job, and reasonable value since I couldn't do that sort of thing myself.
My Cerbera has thrown some big bills my way when in for a service - £2500ish (I choose to forget the exact amount), and more than once. However, these are things that needed to be done as repairs rather than part of the service as such.
The cost of the actual service (the 12K big one) is around the £900 mark, but that includes doing the valve clearances, so not a small job, and reasonable value since I couldn't do that sort of thing myself.
Dave_ST220 said:
frosted said:
For my passat they wanted 600 odd quid , I did want to keep vwsh but not at that cost . A good expensive Indy done the service , mot, new pads and disks ( all vw parts) for 550
I think I would just have paid the extra £50 to have full main dealer history. We all know main dealer service usually means st but the alternatives are usally not much better in my experience.If I had FMDSH, the car was worth private at sale time roughly £1700. Without history it was worth about £1300. I saved over £3000 over the years by doing my own work, therefore not worth bothering in my case.
doogz said:
Not quite a service bill, a repair, and not quite to the magnitude of some in this thread either, but my A4 went into a garage when the power steering died last winter.
They had my car for 5 weeks, and changed the power steering pump, twice, the steering rack, the power steering pump pulley, and all of the pipework.
They couldn't find or fix the problem, and tried to charge me £900 to get my car back, still broken, filthier than ever, with the engine cover in the boot, and the undertray had went missing altogether.
So what did you do?They had my car for 5 weeks, and changed the power steering pump, twice, the steering rack, the power steering pump pulley, and all of the pipework.
They couldn't find or fix the problem, and tried to charge me £900 to get my car back, still broken, filthier than ever, with the engine cover in the boot, and the undertray had went missing altogether.
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