Main Dealer Service

[SimonR.]

Just got my car back and I knew it was too expensive anyway (£100 for a service)
I only went to the dealer for the sake of the cars re-sale.

Just had a flick through the list of what the service includes.

I essentially paid £99 for them to change the oil....

Now forgive me if I'm wrong but that's about a £10 job and the rest of the "work" is tat.

Do the lights work? - Probably would have noticed if they didnt

Exhaust - Yes it's still there.



Next time I'll do it myself and just make my own bloody stamp for the hassle its worth.


/Rant

 

[Fred@BTM]

£99 on an RS, that's good!!

air filter
cabin filter
oil filter
sump washer
oil
full check over

you are paying for the expert to use their eyes also, but main dealers are a bit hit and miss, i have a "wall of shame" dedicated to them, i will have to post an update of the latest shockers (jag main dealer)

 

[Craigus]

How would you know, your not a Trader?

 

[barker22]

so u asked them to do a service without asking what they were actually going to change. what oil did they use, call it £60(it is renault afterall) £5-£10 oil filter. air filter??? £5-£10 again. so in reality you have up to £80 worth of parts and then labour on top.

 

[SimonR.]

It's a 1.4 mk2 ph2.

I knew what they were going to do, like I said it was purely for the stamp for re-sale value.

Just think its a bit of a joke for the parts that were changed being oil and oil filter :L


Oh and Fred this is the same dealership that had no idea what an rs grill was even explained in lamens terms and then told it wouldnt fit :L

 

[simb06]

Thats cheap for a service, try taking your brand new car to a main dealer and then be told its close to £200 if not more for it's first service!

 

[Fred@BTM]

aye, 197's/200's/225's main dealers want £250!

 

[EllD90]

£100 for a service is fine. They're a company which has to make money. If you're moaning, why didn't you DIY.

 

[gouldy1985]

I had a new mx-5 for a couple of years, and that was £200 a service. £100 is cheap.

 

[Beef-Mc]

I want to see Fred's wall of shame, sounds good!

 

[Harpham]

aye, 197's/200's/225's main dealers want £250!

Great, look forward to that

 

[Wests Renault]

£100 for a Renault service is very cheap. Admittedly thats probably just a motrio oil and filter change and a 25 point check, but what do you expect for a cheap service.

 

[SimonR.]

£100 for a Renault service is very cheap. Admittedly thats probably just a motrio oil and filter change and a 25 point check, but what do you expect for a cheap service.

Yeah it was, I know what I was paying for and like I said it was just for the stamp (re-sale purposes).

Anyways hopefully the last service on this car anyway

 

[Fred@BTM]

30K mile 3year old Jag S type with full main dealer history, 4 stamps in the book (£450 per service)

this is what i found inside the airbox, i was shocked!

 

[MicKPM]

What's wrong with that Fred? Blast it with the airline and replace... job done

 

[gouldy1985]

30K mile 3year old Jag S type with full main dealer history, 4 stamps in the book (£450 per service)

this is what i found inside the airbox, i was shocked!

That is unbelievable, hope you went in and asked to see the manager?!

 

[BRUN]

30K mile 3year old Jag S type with full main dealer history, 4 stamps in the book (£450 per service)

this is what i found inside the airbox, i was shocked!

the air filter interval on my car is 4 years or 40k, so its easily possible mine could get to a similar state before being replaced, however i do it myself every year

 

[BRUN]

i dont see the point of this thread, even at trade prices you cant DIY service for £10 so your on another planet if you think thats possible, and as you have said you wanted the stamp

£99 for a dealer service is cheap, we do em and we get a lot of business from it, pretty much all independents would charge the same, in some cases more, do you think the mechanics work for free

 

[MicKPM]

i dont see the point of this thread, even at trade prices you cant DIY service for £10 so your on another planet if you think thats possible, and as you have said you wanted the stamp

£99 for a dealer service is cheap, we do em and we get a lot of business from it, pretty much all independents would charge the same, in some cases more, do you think the mechanics work for free

That's very true Brun - I went to price up some service bits for a mates 172 today using a local auto-factors and the following parts came to £87

Oil - 5l
Oil Filter - Coopers
Air Filter - Coopers
Pollen Filter - Coopers
Plugs x4 - NGK

Granted, you can drop £45 from that for the plugs alone but still for a dealer to carryout an oil and filter change, stamp your book for only £99 is pretty good going. Typically though, people don't like paying for work to be done that they can't see.