Know how you feel, my last 'service' was over twice that number, then on top of that there was the new roof and the respray at £8k (although £6k was on insurance and loss of no claims). I have only done 6000miles in two years, plus the whopping depreciation and I wonder why I have a car at all

DIY has to be your answer Jools.

Same happens on bikes though. On my 748 service they said I needed rear pads....funny that.....I NEVER used the back brake!!!

WeeJohnyB

You can do most of that yourself with your eyes closed! EBC discs are £39 each for a C70, pads £110 for a full set. Include fluids and that's saved you £240. A recon power-steering pump (from a reputable source) should be sub-£150 and fitting is (usually) pretty simple. Leave the spring, get a tyre from someone with real prices and you should get change from a grand even with the dealer doing the service. Bit of graft, I know, but you'll feel better for doing it. :D

Good luck,
Ali

Front Discs and Pads fitted: 266.00
Rear Discs and Pads fitted: 243.00
Power steering pump fitted: 505.88
Rear Coil Spring fitted: 107.00
Antenna Ring fitted: 112.00
New rear tyre: 125.00

Jools because you never used the car much probably caused the disc's and pads to wear quicker than normal because of the disc's rusting up badly between use. My wifes TT had only 19,000 in three years and required new front disc's and pads. I picked these up off ebay for a song including the pads. Then spent and evening changing them.

Nothing "lesser" about the good old Peugeot Jools, I've run them for the past 15 years and had very little go wrong with them. Great VFM motors IMHO, maybe not "sexy" but then neither is a whacking great service bill and expensive spare parts.

Hope you get the old Ovlov sorted.

Yeah, got it sorted in the end by the simple expedient of paying the money. looked at doing it all myself and the prospect of doing the work wasn't the issue, just too busy to do it and needed the car again for a trip to a customers today, so I couldn't take the chance on it not being ready - can't really take a customer to lunch in Mrs Jools Smart Car.

I've been wondering how the hell a coil spring got broken - since driving it a few miles I've even started to think it could've been like that from new 'cos the car handles better than ever. It's a convertible, so I expected it to handle like a wobbly jelly, particularly because the C70 was supposed to be one of the more wobbly convertibles around, but it actually handles better and is less wobbly than it's evver been.

Anyway, dosh has been spent. I wouldn't be quite so ****ed if it hadn't wiped out the savings I've been putting by for the 'new' Ducati fund

At least you've got it fixed now.

My alternator went at the weekend and drained the battery by the time I nursed it home. The dashboard looked like Blackpool illuminations with warning lights flashing all over the place. Had to get the AA out to give it enough charge to allow me to drive to the garage today. Only just made it, poor thing. Also noticed an oil leak, can't see where it's coming from.

WeeJohnyB

I had a similar situation with the X5 not so long ago. When I was changing the brake pads (£18 for a front set off ebay! bargain!) I noticed that one of the CV gaiters was split. Actually, you couldn't miss it as there was grease everywhere!

So I set about getting the parts and managed to bag the replacement kit off ebay for a measly £6 inc postage. It was a new gaiter, clips and even a bag of grease to fill it with.

Then I sat down to read the instructions on how to change the gaiter... the site reckoned 4 hours to do it and it involved all sorts of fiddly things like removing a drive shaft, splitting a ball joint, removing odd sized nuts that I would need to buy new sockets for...

In the end I took it to the local BMW specialist and got them to change it when it was having an oil service. Considering he'd quoted me £75 to fit the new gaiter, I was quite pleased when the bill for that and the service came in at £205.

Sometimes it's just not worth doing it yourself!

"I've been wondering how the hell a coil spring got broken"

It's our wonderful roads Jools, I had to have the n/s front replaced a while ago:mad:

:roll: Flog it Jools and get yourself a Moggie traverler , you could buy one for less than £1600 and fix it yourself . Adjust the points on a saturday picnic on a sunday.No worries about speeding fines, 50 mph life in the slow lane.:lol:
It won't depreicate. I can see you now , window down smoking a pipe, socks inside your sandles and a beard. oh you already have one:lol: magic

:lol: :lol: Ya bastid :lol: :lol: