Ducati Sporting Club UK > General > Idle Chat > Gulp.....HOW MUCH???

[Fordie]

I've move from getting my MOT at a place I've used for 15 years it seems every time I took it in there was all ways a wheel bearing or some thing needed doing. Two years ago it was the same ,wheel bearing on the outside needs changing. Took it to some one else and it passed and has done for the last two years. Ford Motor Co wanted £1100 to replace the clutch mass fly wheel assembly after the Focus had only done 46,000 miles, seem a weakness on the design according to some meccanics. Ford Motor Co are making a killing replacing the same unit on the TRANSIT Van after the same mileage. I had a good independant meccanic do the job for under £800 including a full service. Very suprised about the Volvo though.4D

[Magpie]

ouch.

i've had worse, the last service on my 748S was £1600!

Seat quoted me £660 to supply and fit front discs and pads on my Cupra R, i had them done for £220 by a local independent specialist suppying original parts. suggest you bin the main dealer and find a decent local chap more in need of the work.

good luck.

Can't explain the rear spring though

[bradders]

just think of all the dosh you've made in mileage claims and car allowance!! should soften the blow

maybe try one of the swedish car parts specialists

[keith888]

Speaking from experience, Volvos are not that reliable and the dealers are expensive! BUT our 13 year old 940 turbo has now done 150,000 miles and still mostly still drives like a car only a few years old (even the air con still works). Parts are fairly cheap via eBay and via Motor Factors and when you dismantle Volvos they go back together again without things breaking. You're handy with the spanners so why not go the DIY route? New disks all round and pads should be only £50-£100 and an hour or two to fit. Power steering pump only slightly more. All the money you save can then be poured into the 888!!

Keith

[Ray]

Wouldn't trust some car dealers any further than I could throw them. It's a regular occurence to get a job list as long as yer arm when a car has gone in for attention.

They look at you as if you are some kind of loon when you decline their kind offer to fix all yer car's faults, or are crazy enough to tell em that you are more than capable of undoing a few bolts to fit yer own discs or that you are quite happy to take the car away with its worn out sliding spline sproggle gromits

I'd guess main dealer rates are around £100 and hour for Volvo if you include the VAT.

I've not see a power steering pump itself leak, more often than not its the pipes that have rotted or fractured.

The other way of looking at it though is that you should have year of trouble free motoring, some cars lose £1500 or more a month in depreciation

Ray.

[YMFB]

i was just thinking that it wasnt too bad for a car thats five years old, however, £125 for the tyre sounds pricey

People at work have started using a moble mechanic, his rates are minuscule compared with local garages and he has a place to take cars if the job is too big to do on the drive.

My X5's last service cost £475 thats the most expensive its cost so far and its done 50K

[antonye]

Originally Posted by YMFB

i was just thinking that it wasnt too bad for a car thats five years old, however, £125 for the tyre sounds pricey

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My X5's last service cost £475 thats the most expensive its cost so far and its done 50K

Lol!

I take it you've not had a quote for 4 new tyres for your X5 yet then?

Just make sure you're sitting down when you do it!

We had an oil service done on ours last week, along with a new cv gaitor fitted; £205 all in! Not bad when that includes 9 litres of oil!
It was the cost of having 4 new tyres that was the shocker...

[antonye]

Jools,

Get a second opinion/quote, just to be on the safe side.