Intermediate service.. Dealer or Indy?

M

Maniac

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So it's year 6 and intermediate service is required.

Brake fluid.
Oil and filter.
Microfilter.

Bmw Stockport quote £300
Darren Wood Stockport (Indy) quote £240

I'm keen to save cash but until this point it has a full BMW dealer service history and I wonder if I should stick with that as its only £60 more.
 
For £60, I'd stick with BMW - although I'd probably phone them first and try to get them to move a bit closer to the Indy pricing
 
+1, as you will lose any goodwill from BMW if you stray now.
 
Still using BMW for my Z3 for servicing and MOT :o although I was tempted this time around to use a indy.

PVR, out of interest why would you lose BMW's goodwill? I'm assuming on an extended warranty. I would have thought so long as you use a VAT registered garage using BMW genuine service items then BMW would still honour any warranty claims?

Tim.
 
TitanTim said:
Still using BMW for my Z3 for servicing and MOT :o although I was tempted this time around to use a indy.

PVR, out of interest why would you lose BMW's goodwill? I'm assuming on an extended warranty. I would have thought so long as you use a VAT registered garage using BMW genuine service items then BMW would still honour any warranty claims?

Tim.
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Warranty is not goodwill, which is anything not covered under warranty :wink:
 
Warranty is not the same as goodwill though.

My M was out of warranty, but BMW paid £1k towards a repair under goodwill. Rules of goodwill is that you have to have a 100% perfect trackrecord with BMW servicing.

With my 740, I received a goodwill replacement windscreen washer pump and the climate controls were losing dots in their digits - all fixed at 6 years old under goodwill (no warranty on the car).
 
Thanks pvr, I was thinking goodwill and warranty as one of the same but see what you mean now.

I know with the Z3 which had the diff mounting bracket failures BMW did repairs as a goodwill gesture on cars upto 10 years old, after that they didn't want to know :)

Tim.
 
Maniac said:
Result, official dealer quote is down to £281 (for oil/filter/microfilter/brakefluid). That'll do.
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Beating them over the head with competitive prices often works :thumbsup:
 
Excellent result. Big change compared to 10+ years ago when a price was a price from a dealer and they would never budge.
 
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