General Ouch! First service bill...
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General Ouch! First service bill...
So you're moaning you let a dealer fleece you 
Thats the spirit. Might even be worth pricing it at kwick fit etc and seeing if main dealer will match, if they want the business enough sometimes they do
A genuine FIAT filter will cost you £6-£7, and you can buy 4l of Castrol EDGE 5W40 from Costco for about £24. Find a VAT registered independent (to protect your warranty), & I'd say you'd be looking at around £25-£30 for labour, so £55-£60 all in.
If you do go down the indie route & don't provide your own oil, make sure they use the correct specification for the car.
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Those 'other checks' are not hard to do, and can nearly all be done just by 'looking' (eg look through the clear plastic brake fluid reservoir and see that the fluid is between the min and max marks)
In fact, most, if not all, of these checks are something that any car owner should be doing regularly anyway -- all part of the process of owning a car. Checking things monthly, rather than waiting for an annual service, will often show up 'small' problems that can fixed cheaply, before they go on to become 'big' and expensive to sort.
In fact, most, if not all, of these checks are something that any car owner should be doing regularly anyway -- all part of the process of owning a car. Checking things monthly, rather than waiting for an annual service, will often show up 'small' problems that can fixed cheaply, before they go on to become 'big' and expensive to sort.
