£700 for first 12 month service!!!!

My labour was £156 at Bridge. Dropped the bike off at 8:30, picked it up at 2:00 pm, nice walk along the canal to the Double Locks pub while I was waiting, needed a bit of anasthetic before I got the bill. The Double Locks would be a nice place for a meet sometime, got camping and good beer....
I've ust noticed they've used Castrol GPS oil, is that stuff any good?

Dave

Ref. £65 for oil £10 for filter - I was putting those - off the top of my head - prices in to try to illustrate how some dealers take the pi55. Sure you should't expect to pay that, it's just that if they are quoting over £450 for the service, they're probably charging high prices for parts. . .

Castrol GPS - good stuff, depends what grade and what engine you're using. I used 10W/50 in my RSV last year and found it really thinned out when it got hot - made the gear changes really notchy, and the clutch grabby.
In a Monster 6/7/9 it should be fine. Wouldn't wanna use anything less than 15W/50 in an S4 tho'

BTW - Piggy, yeah 24 months service is belts, regardless of miles mate. . .

[NewMon]

Ouch. I'll say that again. OUCH!

I'd be looking for a new dealer. I agree with other posters that you can fit the scottoiler yourself - you've done other just as complicated things. Ducati Coventry told me that I'd be looking at 200 quid a year for an average mileage (meaning 6000m per year). That still seems steep! Much more than my Yaris costs and that's got complicated valves and such. Judging by this and other threads, I wonder how accurate that will turn out to be.

The 6,000 mile/12month service on my 2002 620ie was £258.05p excluding VAT. Of that £192.50 was labour, i.e 5 hours @ £38.50 per hour.

Is this reasonable? The hourly rate probably is, but I suspect that the dealer would always round up the time to the nearest whole hour - if we are honest we probably would do the same.

I don't object to paying for good quality work because I expect to be well paid also! The most important thing is to find a dealer who you can trust to do a good job.

Who said that motorcycling was supposed to be a cheap hobby?


Just my two cents worth - might be total bo**ocks mind.

Will

Jue - further to your/my PM - didn't realise they'd quoted you that much!

That is 100% taking the **** - no doubt they think you are just some dumb girl who doesn't know one end of a bike from the other... you could come down to Brighton, spend the weekend in a nice hotel and get your bike serviced at Pro Twins (who are reknowned as being top-notch in their attention to detail) and still get change from £485.

It's utter crap - even P&H (who charge top-dollar labour rates) did my 6000 mile service including a rear tyre for £450. A 6000 mile service (including parts) should be £350 + vat absolute max. - provincial dealers should be charging a lot less...

Tell em to F'off - patronising bastards! Go somewhere else where you can build a proper relationship with the staff...

xxx

[gary tompkins]

Just one word - RIPOFF!

You must be able to get a better quote than that if you shop about. Several places are offering a new PAIR of tyres (plus fitting costs) at around the £140 mark, and as for charging you £75 notes to fit a scottoiler - what a joke. Any competent dealer should be able to do the job in less than an hour, and that price of over £480 for a service (minus belts) is a total pi** take

Time to name and shame maybe?

The Lovely Pheonix and her much slower riding other half, took me to a bloke called Mike Davis, Robson Racing 01789 470589, after I got a puncture at last years Arra Mill weekend, well priced less than a 100 for, off, balance, valve, fit, I dont know how far that is from you. And the Lovely Pheonix swears by him.
As for the Ruth bidding, Ill open it with a mad weekend in Budapest.

Hey Hey Hey. I fitted my scottoiler today.

I wanted to get it done before my service so that if I'd been really dumb they could spot it and change it.

All seems ok and I'm well chuffed!

[Paranoid Dave]

Originally Posted by Julie & Ruth

Hey Hey Hey. I fitted my scottoiler today.

:burnout:

The belts perish with age, not just miles, so I'm told. Be prepared for them to be replaced, better to be safe than have an engine explode, big style.

Just to let you all know My servuce only cost £260 plus £140 for my tyre so i wont be selling ruth just yet. Sorry to anyone who wanted to put a bid in.

doh, just like on e bay....

£50!!!!!!!!!

you know me , im rich i pay over the odds