Garage labour rates

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I am new to Leeds and don’t have any mechanic friends up here 

Anyway my car (01` 330ci) needs a service and MOT, a friend recommended a garage, spoke to the chap he seems to know what he is talking about and sounds like a decent guy

His labour rate is £35 per hour (No Vat) is this reasonable?

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He also has a 330ci which is a bonus, so he does seem to know everything about them as you`d expect.

If PH thinks thats a fair price then I`ll go for it, been blessed upto now having had lots of local mechanic friends (welcome to the real world)

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KevinA4quattro said:

Round my way (South Coast) you are lucky to find anybody at less than £60/hour. Sounds an absolute bargain to me.

Sounds like a bargain I suppose. Cheers fellas

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Garvin said:

Reasonable .......... no it's totally unreasonable ......... in a very good way!

Ah well, booked it in anyway, main plus point for me is that he has the same car and sounds pretty enthusiastic about them

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Beeby said:

I wouldn't take my car to somewhere to do both the service and mot. It provides them with the perfect opportunity to invent things that need fixing.

He takes it to a third party MOT place, but I suppose your point still stands

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Stoatman said:

Vtec specialist round my way is about 40 quid ish an hour. Bargain , when you end up having fiddly problems that only experienced hands can sort in about 5mins. Compared to floundering at the dealers or another garage for hours at 60 + quid an hour.

Specialist often seems better than the dealers from my experience

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jatinder said:

I serviced a 330ci a couple of weeks ago, parts cost 160, full service kit from BMW £115, rest was oil.

Should take about 2-3 hours.

Got paid with a steak dinner :-)

Similar to what he quoted me really! About £100 parts and £70 labour but he would go right over it etc.