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General Diesel oil change price?

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What are people charged for just the 500 diesel oil change, as it is not part of the standard servicing?

I was quoted around £80-90 which struck me as exorbitant for oil, filter and labour for changing both and resetting the degradation indicator.

Is the necessary software widely held by independent garages?

TIA,

Dave
 
Always feels expensive, oil is synthetic, Selenia was £9.45 a litre when I last bought some...so lets say £40 for that, then there's the filter maybe another £8 from a dealer. Half an hour labour tops... £40 so not too far off.

Dealers use Examiner to re-set stuff, just a check alone for a suspected fault can cost £50... this is waived if a fault is found though.
 
Standard service does include oil change, at least at my local garage. As said the oil is expensive and the oil-change includes a flush, again at least at my local garage anyway.

HTH
 
I reckon you could haggle it down a bit :)

4litres of Selenia WR PE is £30 and the filter is £9

My dealer charged £70 yesterday for the labour to change the oil, air filter, oil filter, pollen filter and spark plugs so £40 or £50 just for an oil and oil filter change seems a little high to me :)
 
I looked up my last bill from my Fiat main dealer - £93.60

£39.75 labour
£28.88 Castrol Magnatec Pro oil
£12.76 filter
£12.21 VAT

I'm getting around 13000 miles between required oil changes. (Not as good as my Merc at 18000 but acceptable enough). Virtually all motorway driving, so no DPF problems.

And it IS separate from servicing. I also saw the standard service at 36000 miles from the same Fiat main dealer - £394 EXCLUDING oil change.

These cars are expensive to service, no question.

Dave
 
DABurleigh said:
I looked up my last bill from my Fiat main dealer - £93.60

£39.75 labour
£28.88 Castrol Magnatec Pro oil
£12.76 filter
£12.21 VAT

I'm getting around 13000 miles between required oil changes. (Not as good as my Merc at 18000 but acceptable enough). Virtually all motorway driving, so no DPF problems.

And it IS separate from servicing. I also saw the standard service at 36000 miles from the same Fiat main dealer - £394 EXCLUDING oil change.

These cars are expensive to service, no question.

Dave
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A Fiat main dealer should be using Selenia WR oil not Castrol Magnatec. :eek:

In fact if you look at the Castrol website here you'll see that they don't have an oil that is recommended for the 500 1.3MJT. :confused:
 
DABurleigh said:
I looked up my last bill from my Fiat main dealer - £93.60

£39.75 labour
£28.88 Castrol Magnatec Pro oil
£12.76 filter
£12.21 VAT

I'm getting around 13000 miles between required oil changes. (Not as good as my Merc at 18000 but acceptable enough). Virtually all motorway driving, so no DPF problems.

And it IS separate from servicing. I also saw the standard service at 36000 miles from the same Fiat main dealer - £394 EXCLUDING oil change.

These cars are expensive to service, no question.

Dave
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My local dealership carries out complete low mileage services - including an oil change - for £99. You could have had a lot more done for your money if you shopped around a little, I'm sure
 
Mine had to have an oil change at about 6700 miles (it was an ex-demo car and had apparently had a few forced re-gens). My dealer charged £70 for oil, filter and labour.

An independent specialist said they could do it for about £50, I'll be using them for future servicing as they seem to have a better reputation than the Fiat dealer.
 
mattpolley said:
Mine had to have an oil change at about 6700 miles (it was an ex-demo car and had apparently had a few forced re-gens). My dealer charged £70 for oil, filter and labour.

An independent specialist said they could do it for about £50, I'll be using them for future servicing as they seem to have a better reputation than the Fiat dealer.
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Yes but will they reset the oil degradation counter? Probably not...
 
I paid around £90 for my oil change at around 13000 miles. Yes its high, you can possibley haggle a few quid off. I didn't bother tho.
 
My car is well out of guarantee, but I am having a service tomorrow which should cost around 120 quid. This includes oil and filters and a general checkup.

It's a good garage and I reckon that's a decent price.

However, I expect it will need new suspension bushes and God knows what else:eek:
 
Ulpian said:
My car is well out of guarantee, but I am having a service tomorrow which should cost around 120 quid. This includes oil and filters and a general checkup.
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What car is it? I had the 500 services I had plugs, filters and oil all done for just a bit over £120
 
Just in case you're interested, it flew through MOT without even a warning and the MOT and service came to just under £130.

This is good, because I have just had a couple of new tyres fitted as well, and so the total cost of this year's work has come in at under £300. Not too bad because I was expecting a lot more.
 
Ulpian said:
Just in case you're interested, it flew through MOT without even a warning and the MOT and service came to just under £130.

This is good, because I have just had a couple of new tyres fitted as well, and so the total cost of this year's work has come in at under £300. Not too bad because I was expecting a lot more.
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Good stuff :) The wifes car flew through its MOT yesterday as well only having to have a couple of bulbs changed because they'd blackened and with a reccomendation for a corroded brake pipe.

If you buy a decent car and maintain it well MOT's usually go by with little or no problems. Never quite understand why people **** themselves when a car gets to 3 years of age and needs to be MOT'd :ROFLMAO:.
 
I was a bit worried about the suspension bushes, the exhaust, and corrosion on the break unions, but it looks fine for now and I'll make sure I give the bits a spray of WD-40 before winter begins.

As you say, keep them serviced and fairly clean and drive sensibly, and you might just be lucky (y)
 
Ulpian said:
I was a bit worried about the suspension bushes, the exhaust, and corrosion on the break unions, but it looks fine for now and I'll make sure I give the bits a spray of WD-40 before winter begins.

As you say, keep them serviced and fairly clean and drive sensibly, and you might just be lucky (y)
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Don't think it takes luck :) Buy a decent car at the start and put decent bits on it and it'll be fine. Also if you get reccomendations for things then sort them out before they become problems. Idiot here got a reccomendation for his 406's exhaust being rusty and disregarded it and guess what happened? My exhaust fell off 100 miles from home........
 
Well, we all take risks like that, it's when something suddenly goes 'bang' that the real problems start.

By the way, I've started using Dragon Naturally Speaking instead of typing, so beware of a few spelling mistakes ;)
 
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