The only unknown is whether the vehicle battery is "sufficiently charged". The car doesn't seem to indicate this.
BMW and M Power Owners
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Quite, you've put it on a charger though?
Surely that cost you some money, or did you get it for free with a new car purchase?Brake fluid service, winter check and new key battery. All for the pricey sum of £0.00 as I have a 5 year service pack until 2026
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If he bought the car used and the original owner bought the pack, it stays with the car.
I bought the 5 year service pack on Black Friday in 2021 for around £600.
I bought the car new as a pre-reg in 2020.
I presume the 5 year service pack was through the main dealer also?
It was through Connected Drive - so not tied to a particular dealer as such
I see, I paid £793.80 for a three year service plan at the Smart main dealer in Jersey. Smart in the UK want £900 for a three year service plan…
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Servicing EVs is cheaper obviously. We only pay 5% GST instead of 20% VAT in UK so the price I paid about right. They didn’t want to do it for £756 as listed on their website as they’d lose some of that to GST, if they were making a huge profit I’m sure they could have absorbed the GST.
The Smart main dealer in Jersey is also the main dealer for Aston Martin, Bentley, Porsche, Mercedes AMG, Audi RS and BMW Power. They don’t even offer service plans on those as the parts cost more I guess.
It was a black Friday deal and not main dealer servicing. Not that, that makes much difference.
Errr mine is main dealer servicing.
Ok its when you said "It was through Connected Drive - so not tied to a particular dealer as such" made me think it wasn't main dealer servicing.
EDIT: Just googled connected drive now I understand, my bad sorry!
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I’ve just checked BMWs pay monthly service plans. You’ve done very well. BMW want £45 a month for 36 months for M models. That works out at £1620 in total for a three year plan.
You’ve got five years for £627! Simply outstanding, I presume there’s no difference between your plan and the three year one linked to above apart from yours being for five years.
A standard 5 year service package for a BMW 3 series is £895. In 2021, they discounted these on Black Friday and that's how he got the price he did.
The Smart package really is very expensive, that is the issue here. It's supposed to be a small cheap to run city car, yet it has servicing costs that are higher than a 3 litre BMW?
Indeed, quite why servicing a Smart car is so high is confusing.
