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Post by racingteatray on Nov 17, 2020 14:54:45 GMT
...my wife is not best pleased...
Took her Fiat 500 in for its MoT and it failed on a leaking front shock absorber (which apparently also necessitates a new mount) and a snapped handbrake cable (there are two apparently).
Doesn't sound like much but that little lot amounts to £380 for parts and labour, using OE parts. Garage has sugared the pill by saying she can have the MoT for free and knocking 10% off the parts/labour bill, which is a useful saving, but still she's not amused.
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Post by johnc on Nov 17, 2020 15:03:56 GMT
£380 would make me a happy man for any service or repair.
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Post by michael on Nov 17, 2020 15:20:54 GMT
Italian cars have a habit of becoming expensive to run when they hit a certain age. I'd imagine things like the bushes going which will also mean new suspension arms before long. Time for the i3.
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Post by Martin on Nov 17, 2020 15:26:15 GMT
£380 would make me a happy man for any service or repair. As a percentage of the cars value it's not great and hopefully it won't stop her letting you find a replacement, but otherwise it's not a huge amount when you deal with a main dealer. It was £220 just for an oil change on the Golf which is the cheapest I can remember, but I was spoilt by having a 5 year/50k mile service pack on the BMW, prior to that I was used to a service being around £800. |
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Post by racingteatray on Nov 17, 2020 15:27:45 GMT
£380 would make me a happy man for any service or repair. Yes, although here it's knocking on for 10% of the value of the car! Or, as she quantified it, a new handbag... To be fair on the car it's only the second time in seven years that it's cost her anything other than routine servicing. It's just that the last time was at last year's MoT and the car's barely done 1,200 miles in the past year...so she's feeling miffed. |
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Post by racingteatray on Nov 17, 2020 15:28:27 GMT
Italian cars have a habit of becoming expensive to run when they hit a certain age. I'd imagine things like the bushes going which will also mean new suspension arms before long. Time for the i3. Front suspension arms and bushes were replaced last year. |
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Post by ChrisM on Nov 17, 2020 15:37:34 GMT
I think your wife is out of touch with garage labour rates. That doesn't sound too bad to me at all
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Post by Tim on Nov 17, 2020 16:03:50 GMT
What's she complaining about, I just paid £372 for a service on a 2 year old, 14k miles Micra! With Dundee labour rates  Mind you the (18 year old) Toyota passed its MOT last week with absolutely nothing wrong having done a similar 1200 miles in the past 12 months. |
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Post by racingteatray on Nov 17, 2020 16:09:06 GMT
I think your wife is out of touch with garage labour rates. That doesn't sound too bad to me at all Which non-petrolhead is not? For a garage in central London, no not bad at all. That's an independent Fiat specialist, not a franchised dealer though. Battersea Fiat charge like Battersea BMW and whilst the next nearest main dealer, Parkside Fiat, is much cheaper (£70/hr), it's in Hounslow, which is most of the way to Heathrow and impractical at the best of times and certainly not during lockdown when a "while you wait" service isn't available. |
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Post by Roadrunner on Nov 17, 2020 16:35:03 GMT
Sounds like a shot across the bow and time to think about moving it on. Could be a useful incentive to gain wifely agreement to buying an i3.
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Post by PetrolEd on Nov 17, 2020 16:39:40 GMT
I remember when the missus had an Alfa Romeo Mito 155 which as we all know was a tarted up Punto. It was in the stage were Alfa got ideas they were the equivalent of Maserati and the cost of the 2 year service was something like £595. They soon got told to do one and a specialist did it for about £200.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 17, 2020 17:39:44 GMT
The idiot here is charging £90ph.
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Post by michael on Nov 17, 2020 17:40:23 GMT
Italian cars have a habit of becoming expensive to run when they hit a certain age. I'd imagine things like the bushes going which will also mean new suspension arms before long. Time for the i3. Front suspension arms and bushes were replaced last year. The car's trying to tell you it's time is up. |
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Post by racingteatray on Nov 17, 2020 18:17:53 GMT
The idiot here is charging £90ph. That seems very pricey. |
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Post by racingteatray on Nov 17, 2020 18:21:20 GMT
Front suspension arms and bushes were replaced last year. The car's trying to tell you it's time is up. Well we're back and £460 lighter (it also needed an interim service). I've not driven it, but my wife did say it felt better, so at least that is something. There's no way she'll change it on my say-so, particularly not now that she's just spent money on it! I just have to wait until she decides it needs changing or, more likely, simply selling. She's just had to pay for the insurance renewal as well, so she's doubly unamused. |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 18, 2020 0:09:52 GMT
The idiot here is charging £90ph. That seems very pricey. I have the same opinion, especially seeing the job has take basically two months to do badly. Challenge Garage in Cheltenham in King Alfred way. Worth not using. The fuel gauge does not work now (Not reading above half full) and they scratched the bumper paint. |
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Post by Grampa on Nov 18, 2020 12:20:04 GMT
Mini was serviced and MOT'd last week - there was one 'free' service left on it but the MINI dealer has shut up shop (Sytner took them over a few years ago and turned a great dealership into a completely crap one so not surprising) so it went to the independent down the road rather than one of the other of us lose a day to travel 60 miles to have crap service from the next nearest (which is also Sytner) - £260 for the full service and MOT (no faults) so very pleased with that.
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Post by Blarno on Nov 18, 2020 12:31:31 GMT
The idiot here is charging £90ph. We charge that to service a Mono.
£380 doesn't sound too bad for a garage. There's at least 2 hours labour alone in the front shock replacement and OE parts will be pricier anyway.
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Post by racingteatray on Nov 18, 2020 12:36:51 GMT
It was serviced by Fiat for the first four years and then we switched to an independent Fiat specialist in Stockwell that BB recommended. They use only OE Mopar parts, or so they say!
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Post by johnc on Nov 18, 2020 12:55:06 GMT
We charge that to service a Mono.
Which is about half the rate you pay if you get a Porsche serviced so well done Mono. |
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Post by PG on Nov 18, 2020 14:04:26 GMT
£380 would make me a happy man for any service or repair. Yes, although here it's knocking on for 10% of the value of the car! Or, as she quantified it, a new handbag... To be fair on the car it's only the second time in seven years that it's cost her anything other than routine servicing. It's just that the last time was at last year's MoT and the car's barely done 1,200 miles in the past year...so she's feeling miffed. Motoring costs money. A sad but true fact. You either pay it in depreciation on a new car or in maintenance on an older car. However, £380 for a handbag....... OMFG!!! |
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Post by bryan on Nov 18, 2020 14:54:26 GMT
I understand that £380 is quite cheap for a handbag......it works on the same principle ratio of cost reduction that we use for Bike/Golf/Car equipment costs to the Mrs
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Post by racingteatray on Nov 18, 2020 15:10:13 GMT
I understand that £380 is quite cheap for a handbag......it works on the same principle ratio of cost reduction that we use for Bike/Golf/Car equipment costs to the Mrs Indeed! |
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Post by Martin on Nov 18, 2020 15:16:40 GMT
I understand that £380 is quite cheap for a handbag......it works on the same principle ratio of cost reduction that we use for Bike/Golf/Car equipment costs to the Mrs Indeed! Are you allowed the same right to veto that Mrs R has on cars? The ex Mrs Martin would have considered £380 cheap for a handbag and had several expensive 'every day' handbags due to some sort of differences in seasonal requirements (mainly colour I think), which went on eBay after a year and were replaced...... |
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Post by johnc on Nov 18, 2020 16:29:49 GMT
My wife now has a collection of handbags according to our insurance broker and they are all photographed for insurance purposes. The good thing is that she knows it is ridiculous and is therefore much less judgemental on certain things I want to buy just because I want them.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 18, 2020 16:54:28 GMT
Sara has a collection of bags, no idea what brand but they have some sort of Terrier as a motif.badge/logo.
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Post by racingteatray on Nov 18, 2020 17:24:26 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Nov 18, 2020 17:32:20 GMT
Them's the ones, a little leather dog 'motif' on them, Sara loves hers to bits but calls me a sentimental fool about my attachment to Bessy. Logic of a sort I suppose.
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Post by Big Blue on Nov 18, 2020 19:07:35 GMT
Bearing in mind that some 18 years ago I ran the 500SEC which cost £1,000 every time it was even just looked at that sounds fair to me.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 18, 2020 20:00:24 GMT
Sorry, what sounds right? Not keeping up, sorry.
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