Car back from service

Firestar_3x · 24 Mar 2006 at 13:59

It doesn't sound like a scheduled service to me, all those items just happened to need doing at the same time and yes the belt change on audis is a pain, friend at work had a A3 TDI the dealer did something stupid during the belt change and resulted in a 3k repair bill which the dealer refused to cover, good job it was a fully serviced lease!

[TW]Fox · 24 Mar 2006 at 15:24

pdw8 said:
But thats the point, the service plus brakes was about £500 but the cambelt and bits was £1000. This only needs to be done every 60-80k so is a one off, not a routine cost.

No cambelt on the 5 though, so I wont see routine servicing bills that high

pdw8 · 24 Mar 2006 at 15:55

[TW]Fox said:
No cambelt on the 5 though, so I wont see routine servicing bills that high

OK, good point

djbenjo · 24 Mar 2006 at 16:52

A cambelt would have been £30 at the most waterpump maybe £70 tops. So you paid £900 for labour, nice

TripleT · 24 Mar 2006 at 18:33

I had a £1000 bill last January on the GTi6

That was a major 40k service - £200ish
Cambelt / tensioners / water pump - £380ish
Full Exhaust - £300

And I can't remember what else....

tb2000 · 24 Mar 2006 at 18:34

£1500

We just don't charge enough at work! Perhaps we should get the message when people come to pay and go "oh, that's a lot cheaper than I thought it would be" (or some variant of that phrase). Main dealers do charge over the odds though. We rang up Renaults at work a while ago to find out how much they charge per hour for a certain job and they said it's £80 per hour! :eek:

You don't have to remove the whole front of the Audi to do the cambelt. IIRC on the last one my dad did (which was an A4, small possibility it's different) he removed the bolts one by one and put longer bolts in, the front end then just slides forwards on the longer bolts.

Joe T · 24 Mar 2006 at 18:46

Labour at my nearest BMW dealer is £142 per hour... (I think that includes VAT)

Nozzer · 24 Mar 2006 at 18:52

[TW]Fox said:
£1584 for everyday service work?

Tell me thats not the Audi, right? Your wife has a Ferrari 355 or something?

More like £6k on a 355 at a main dealer

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Audi wanted to do £800 of stuff to my A3 at its last annual service.

tb2000 · 24 Mar 2006 at 18:53

Joe T said:
Labour at my nearest BMW dealer is £142 per hour... (I think that includes VAT)

That just seriously takes the **** :eek:

geiger · 24 Mar 2006 at 19:08

[TW]Fox said:
No cambelt on the 5 though, so I wont see routine servicing bills that high

Chaincam then, dont they cost even more when they need replacing.

"to replace a main-beam bulb on an Audi A2 can cost as much as 66 pounds, though the bulb itself costs only 3.96 pounds."

"They discovered the widest gap was for a full service on an Audi A4 1.9 TDi. In Scotland it was 220 pounds compared with 440 pounds in London."

http://209.157.64.201/focus/f-news/1580761/posts

I heard a good tip for dealership servicing is to go to France, sounds complicated but some do it regularly and get their stamps for the warranty no problem plus the petrol is paid for by savings on the cheap beer brought while there

MehulLakhani · 24 Mar 2006 at 21:37

Porsche are £99 + VAT per hour . . . . . . . and then you wonder why my warranty company hate me

[TW]Fox · 25 Mar 2006 at 01:49

geiger said:
Chaincam then, dont they cost even more when they need replacing.

Correct, but it's not a servicable part so in theory it shouldn't need replacing.

JRS · 25 Mar 2006 at 01:56

geiger said:
Chaincam then, dont they cost even more when they need replacing.

Shouldn't ever need to be changed, unless the car was built/designed poorly or you thrashed nine bells of **** out of it every day for 10 years.

BTW - Aussie Charger in your sig? E49?

Dandle · 25 Mar 2006 at 02:07

JRS said:
Shouldn't ever need to be changed, unless the car was built/designed poorly or you thrashed nine bells of **** out of it every day for 10 years.

Thats not true camchains do stretch over time/use and if they stretch too much then they do need replacing. They should last a fair while before that becomes an issue though.

geiger · 25 Mar 2006 at 11:36

JRS said:
Shouldn't ever need to be changed, unless the car was built/designed poorly or you thrashed nine bells of **** out of it every day for 10 years.

BTW - Aussie Charger in your sig? E49?

Its 150k I hear for some cars, I not sure if it ever snaps normally like a cambelt does, just gets slack.

E49, exactly

Dandle · 25 Mar 2006 at 11:46

geiger said:
Its 150k I hear for some cars, I not sure if it ever snaps normally like a cambelt does, just gets slack.

E49, exactly

It will snap if left, although they normally get a little rattley first. My dad had one go on his merc a few years ago luckily only on tickover so it only damaged a couple of valves. Same as a cambelt really worth changing them on high mileage cars as it a lot cheaper than a headoff job and realitively easy as you just attach the new chain to the old one and pull it through.

Chronos-X · 25 Mar 2006 at 12:16

Jesus christ.

Why do people pay this much just for a stamp in the book

Was your wife offered a reacharound?

tb2000 · 25 Mar 2006 at 14:09

Dandle said:
Thats not true camchains do stretch over time/use and if they stretch too much then they do need replacing. They should last a fair while before that becomes an issue though.

A lot of the time though it's only the tensioner(s) that need replacing.

Barry Smalley · 25 Mar 2006 at 14:50

Chronos-X said:
Was your wife offered a reacharound?

We know the fellah has been a "tad" overcharged, but there was no need for that. :rolleyes:

Barry Smalley · 25 Mar 2006 at 14:52

tb2000 said:
A lot of the time though it's only the tensioner(s) that need replacing.

That is true, but the chains also stretch. An elongated chain, can cause a whole host of problems.