Technical £250 for a second service??

[ut745]

Hi guys, I posted earlier about having my first service done....

When I called Fiat up they said since my cars 2 years old it should be doing its second service, which they quoted at £250...

Basically I was waiting for my car to hit the 18000 mile mark which it says in the handbook to be its first service time...but what I didnt notice was that its due at 18000 miles or 12 months which ever comes first..

So I just wanted to know is £250 too high for the service? Should I go to kwik fit because they only charge £140? Whats your opinions?

Thanks in advance!

 

[Chris@souls]

You get what you pay for!

2nd service involves:

Oil + filter
Plugs
Air cleaner
Pollen filter (if fitted)
Brake Fluid etc

When you think about it its 2 years old and you haven't had a service yet so at £250 you can look at it as £125 a year!

 

[payney1]

Hi guys, I posted earlier about having my first service done....

When I called Fiat up they said since my cars 2 years old it should be doing its second service, which they quoted at £250...

Basically I was waiting for my car to hit the 18000 mile mark which it says in the handbook to be its first service time...but what I didnt notice was that its due at 18000 miles or 12 months which ever comes first..

So I just wanted to know is £250 too high for the service? Should I go to kwik fit because they only charge £140? Whats your opinions?

Thanks in advance!

You don't say what model your car is, petrol or diesel engine?

If it's a diesel engine then the price quoted is about right, if it's petrol shop around and ring other dealers.

Personally i wouldn't take my car anywhere near kwik fit, but that's just me, i'm a bit choosy as to where i take my car.

For the differencee in cost i think it's worth peace of mind.

I took my car for it's second year service to the dealers, and whilst it was there they did some warranty work for me, including replacing the EGR valve, so for me it was well worth it. I paid about £250, which was the cheapest of all dealers in my area, and the best of the dealers too in my opinion.

If you search (you may have to use google) GP Servicing costs now stop moaning.

There is a thread about servicing costs for the GP, discussed to some length too

 

[payney1]

You get what you pay for!

2nd service involves:

Oil + filter
Plugs
Air cleaner
Pollen filter (if fitted)
Brake Fluid etc

When you think about it its 2 years old and you haven't had a service yet so at £250 you can look at it as £125 a year!

That's a very good way of describing it Chris

Did you manage to find the plugs on the diesels lol

 

[punto_matt]

Take it to Fiat. Sh*t fit employ people thicker than monkeys.

 

[ut745]

Hey guys, sorry its a 1.4 t jet... forgot to mention it lol.

I might just pay the £250. I bought the car 2nd hand in april last year and made the dealer do a basic service which was just doing all the normal checks and change the engine oil. No spark plugs or any other parts were changed..

My friend who works for a fiat dealer sells genuine fiat service kits which includes an oil filter, air filter, polen filter and 4 spark plugs all for £70. So when a dealer says £250 for the service I just wonder what im paying for.

I think im just being a bit picky, I'll just pay the £250 (that was actually the discounted price, they wanted closer to £300 before).

One more thing, he said I might need my brake fluid changing which he claims costs £70 but he'll charge £45 after a discount. Arnold Clarks service centre charges £29 for it so I think I am getting ripped off by Lookers Fiat.

 

[punto_matt]

All the serviceable items comes to more than £100 when i look at my invoice for last service. Spark plugs need doing on every service on a Tjet aswell. If the dealer serviced it when you bought it they probably reset the service counter. Did they mark the book saying it had been serviced aswell?

 

[ut745]

All the serviceable items comes to more than £100 when i look at my invoice for last service. Spark plugs need doing on every service on a Tjet aswell. If the dealer serviced it when you bought it they probably reset the service counter. Did they mark the book saying it had been serviced aswell?

Yea they stamped my book and also gave me the service checklist thing.... The parts retail at £110 i.e. the spark plugs and filters etc, but I can get them straight from Fiat for a discounted price of £70. The guy at lookers fiat said because i've done low mileage (15000) after two years he said Fiat recommend I get the 18000 mile service which he says costs £280 but £250 after discount.

If you think its worth it i'll take your word for it because to be honest you are experienced and I dont know much about this kind of stuff.

 

[punto_matt]

Yeah they are right. If you have had 1 low mileage service and then not done many miles between that and your next service you still need to get the full mileage service. If you did go to somewhere like sh*t fit then they wont be able to reset the service counter in the car either so you would then have to go back to Fiat and see how much they wanted to do that....

Personally i would just go to Fiat for it as then if anything does go wrong you can say you serviced it so its down to you where as you go to somewhere like sh*t fit, something goes wrong you take it to Fiat and they go not our fault they probably didnt service it correctly.

 

[ut745]

Yea I think it'll be best doing it from Fiat. I'll book it in for next week. Thanks for all the help

 

[payney1]

Take it to Fiat. Sh*t fit employ people thicker than monkeys.

Yes and No Mat!

It's all about finding the right dealer, as i have done, but there are some dealers that don't provide a very good service, as i have experienced.

It took one dealer probably a full day to find my wheels bearing fault, so once the job had been done i never dealt with them again.

I now use another Fiat dealers, which is actually closer than the one mentioned above, and they provide a very good service imo

 

[Chris@souls]

+ Tjet plugs are more expensive than normal punto plugs,

Price sounds OK to me

 

[Highlander]

Service prices are a complete lottery, My wifes 500 first service A.C. Edinburgh £155. A.C. Dunfermline £90. Maybe you can explain the pricing policy used by them.

Cheers Ian

 

[Chris@souls]

I can't really comment on other dealers.

We use a Fiat Menu Pricing system set at our hourly labour rate agreed between us and Fiat. This then uses 'your' vehicle details to price the required parts/oils/labour for that service.

 

[T14086]

Hi guys, I posted earlier about having my first service done....

where

 

[Si - Punto]

£250 is a decent price for a main dealer 2nd year service

The quote for the M-Jet's second year service came out at nearly £450 iirc and ended up costing £350 at my nearest dealer (that was after shopping around and playing a few dealers off each over)

 

[T14086]

£149 at Arnold Clark Fiat garages (including brake fluid change) BUT check service sheet afterwards as this does not include pollen filter or adjusting tappets (if required) and your unlikely to get a engine/EOBD examiner printout. You will however get a hard sales pitch on buying injector cleaner at £12...buy it from motor factors for third that price if you want it.

 

[ut745]

I thought id pop into a different fiat dealer to find out how much the second service would be.... he told me £340!!! i laughed in his face and he asked me if i got a previous quote. I told him £230 and he said he'll check with his manager if he can reduce it...30 seconds later the price went down from £340 to £199 lol..

Its just ridiculous how these service centres work... but £199 is a good price i think considering everyone else is charging in excess of £230

 

[T14086]

Not really mate, the problem is these 'higher' quotes are the right price but certain dealership chains will undercut everyone to get the work and Fiat dont do anything about it. Personally as I said previously check the service sheet very carefully.

 

[ut745]

Yea, i checked the service sheet carefully its completely legit...
I just don't understand where the "higher quotes" come from... at the end of the day its a fiat. The parts cost the service centres less than 60 quid so why do they charge so much. I understand that there's labour costs etc and the costs of all those checks but asking for £340 is just stupid.

My second car is a bmw 1 series and that costs less to service straight from BMW than what im paying for my t jet to get serviced.