Sytner Service follow-up & BMW Insured Warranty

[road warrior]

you have to wonder at the world and mindset the suited and booted main dealer staff live in, to be able to stand with a straight face and arrive at these numbers without once thinking these prices are outragous ...

[road warrior]

i look at the rise of korean cars in the world and you have to wonder if they ever wonder they might be pricing themselves out of the market one day - not today, but in ten years ? and no i dont want one, but i bet in 10 years time what you can buy for 20k will make bmw's head spin..

[step_change]

and following on.. how much if that work done ourselves excluding swearing and skinned knuckles is a given .

Call it £900 in parts and a days labour doing yourself.....that’s with a few brews and a ham sarnie thrown in.

Bloody robbing stealers.....2k my arse....

That is true. However, that assumes you have the tools, knowledge and most of all, the time to do such work. I most certainly haven't mate to spend hours in the garage. A bit of tinkering sure.

[john-e89]

and following on.. how much if that work done ourselves excluding swearing and skinned knuckles is a given .

Call it £900 in parts and a days labour doing yourself.....that’s with a few brews and a ham sarnie thrown in.

Bloody robbing stealers.....2k my arse....

That is true. However, that assumes you have the tools, knowledge and most of all, the time to do such work. I most certainly haven't mate to spend hours in the garage. A bit of tinkering sure.

That’s for sure Step change, it’s not for everybody but it just proves my point how much the stealers are robbing customers that even someone at home with the tools and desire to tackle it would only take a day at most, so the stealers what, the morning at most with the tools, ramps, and experience. There’s making a profit and then there’s absolutely taking the p***, especially when they don’t even do the whole job on say, a service, as they didn’t on my 35is which I had to have done there for new car warranty purposes. Charging me for parts they hadn’t even fitted.

[Nictrix]

Call it £900 in parts and a days labour doing yourself.....that’s with a few brews and a ham sarnie thrown in.

Bloody robbing stealers.....2k my arse....

That is true. However, that assumes you have the tools, knowledge and most of all, the time to do such work. I most certainly haven't mate to spend hours in the garage. A bit of tinkering sure.

That’s for sure Step change, it’s not for everybody but it just proves my point how much the stealers are robbing customers that even someone at home with the tools and desire to tackle it would only take a day at most, so the stealers what, the morning at most with the tools, ramps, and experience. There’s making a profit and then there’s absolutely taking the p***, especially when they don’t even do the whole job on say, a service, as they didn’t on my 35is which I had to have done there for new car warranty purposes. Charging me for parts they hadn’t even fitted.

The worst thing about dealers has to be the fact that they charge you to diagnose whats wrong with your car.
Most other professions this is called a quote and is normally free.