Evoque Service...HOW MUCH?

Evoque Service...HOW MUCH?

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vpr

Original Poster:

3,701 posts

237 months

Sunday 30th December 2012
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My Daughters Evoque is just about a yr old and the dealer says a 1st service is £450

Remember this is a piddly 2.2 Diesel

This cannot be right surely. I've had big trumpy engined cars cost less at 2yr services.

Anyone confirm or otherwise??

Triple7

4,013 posts

236 months

Dixy

2,915 posts

204 months

Monday 31st December 2012
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Personaly I blame the people that sell the dealerships for a fortune and leave the buyers with such mountains of debt that they have to fleace poor customers.

paulmon

2,127 posts

240 months

Monday 31st December 2012
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I paid £320 at Williams Manchester for the first service in Oct and this appears to be the norm. There is a thread on babyrr.co.uk listing what people have paid at specific dealers.

forest172

687 posts

205 months

Monday 31st December 2012
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I paid 280 at nottm stratstone. Derby hunters wanted 450

bogie

16,343 posts

271 months

Monday 31st December 2012
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with some dealer labour rates up at £140-150 an hour inc vat, it dosent take much of a service to end up with a £500 bill frown

bitchstewie

50,800 posts

209 months

Monday 31st December 2012
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Triple7 said:
They seem to have less dealers than they did. I had my FL2 done at Nottingham using their site. Now it's telling me the closest dealer is in Bristol which considering I live near Birmingham...

vankypanky

526 posts

184 months

Monday 31st December 2012
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Dixy said:
Personaly I blame the people that sell the dealerships for a fortune and leave the buyers with such mountains of debt that they have to fleace poor customers.
if you cant afford to buy something then don't buy it. if you are so stupid to have overpaid for something you shouldn't be trusted with money in the first place.

cayman-black

12,625 posts

215 months

Monday 31st December 2012
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vpr said:
My Daughters Evoque is just about a yr old and the dealer says a 1st service is £450

Remember this is a piddly 2.2 Diesel

This cannot be right surely. I've had big trumpy engined cars cost less at 2yr services.

Anyone confirm or otherwise??
Stupid price. Every year service is annoying as well.

David87

6,648 posts

211 months

Monday 31st December 2012
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Yep, my Dad found this with his! The local dealer (where he bought it from) wanted £485 for the first service. eek When he told me he'd booked it in for January, I phoned up a few others and the cheapest came in at a couple of quid over £300. Whilst still rather expensive for something that uses a Focus ST engine, it's rather more palatable than £485! For those who are interested, the cheapest price was from Taylors of Dunmow in Essex (where my Dad's car is now booked in!).

vpr

Original Poster:

3,701 posts

237 months

Monday 31st December 2012
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Thanks for the response Guys

Very helpful, gives me something to go on

Nick1point9

3,917 posts

179 months

Wednesday 2nd January 2013
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Why do several of the posts seem to think that the engine is the determining factor in servicing costs? The majority of cost on a service is paying for a technician to carry out all the checks and measurements, and these will largely be independent of engine. So a baby 4 pot diesel and a wacking great V8 of the same model will likely have incredibly similar servicing costs.

Triple7

4,013 posts

236 months

Thursday 3rd January 2013
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bhstewie said:
They seem to have less dealers than they did. I had my FL2 done at Nottingham using their site. Now it's telling me the closest dealer is in Bristol which considering I live near Birmingham...
I don't use them, just get my local to price match!