Oil change and Oil Filter cost??

Just paid £112 for oil change and oil filter.

Have we just been ripped off?

What car and where at?

Depends. Do you own a Ferrari?

yep double what you should have paid assuming you have an average car

not that hard to do should try it yourself next time

Citeroen C4 56 plate.

http://www.michaelroemotors.co.uk/

dacads said:

yep double what you should have paid

not that hard to do should try it yourself next time

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Can we get refunded or something?

Ninja edit

National tyres = £25-40 for the same thing.

Personally, I just do mine myself. ~£20 for 4L of oil, £5 filter. On the wife's Yaris

They've already carried out the work not sure how you would go about getting a refund

I guess it's a lesson learnt the hard way

LateX'Dog said:

Can we get refunded or something?

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You didn't get ripped off.

LateX'Dog said:

Can we get refunded or something?

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Are you being serious?

Did you ask about the price prior to asking them to do the work?

pepsilol said:

You didn't get ripped off.

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£60 was just for labour.

The oil filter was £9 and oil was £38 (Protech 5w-30)

Prophet said:

Are you being serious?

Did you ask about the price prior to asking them to do the work?

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Well as you can see most of it was on labour, but i guess you can't then.

Was it just an oil change or was it what the manufacturer might call an oil service? This would usually include additional checks.

LateX'Dog said:

£60 was just for labour.
The oil filter was £9 and oil was £38 (Protech 5w-30)

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Which totals £107, so being billed £112 you are being ripped off by a fiver.

Otherwise, yeah that sounds about right.
£30 per hour of labour is the average for most places, independent and otherwise. Of course, they do have to stand around waiting for your oil to drain. They can't just go off and work on another job...

Also, you don't know what other difficulties they may have encountered.
A good friend of mine is a professional mechanic and jobs that should cost £20 do sometimes end up at £2-300... because it's taken him four hours just to carefully extract the rusted up sump plug without wrecking your threads, which would have been a £20 job if the owner cleaned their car like he keeps telling them!!!

Seriously, I've seen some utterly awful jobs (even helped out on a few) that would have been quick 10 minute whizz-throughs if the owners had looked after their vehicles.
Conversely, I've seen a BMW oil change require a day's worth of disassembing the car just to reach the ******* thing!!

We had a problem they thought was related to the oil / oil filter.

All I know is what they put on the receipt. Oil and filter change.

The annoying thing is this is more then the cost of a service, which includes and oil and filter change.

Kwik Fit would have done it for less!

Or atleast they uused to!

Just got a quote from Quick Fit for £38.

Just rang up and they are going to see what they can do with a refund.

LateX'Dog said:

£60 was just for labour.

The oil filter was £9 and oil was £38 (Protech 5w-30)

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£60 labour and non branded oil.

Don't go back there ever again. They've had you.

LateX'Dog said:

We had a problem they thought was related to the oil / oil filter.

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In that case they've either encountered a issue which made the job take longer or they've allowed extra time to diagnose the issue. I certainly think 2 hours seems a lot of labour for a oil change.

Have to tried speaking to the garage? If they're decent then they'll be happy to explain.