Scottish Elises

Ian put it in on Tuesday, running at £2400 at present if they do not find anything else wrong.

tut

£2684.54 I think it is at, maybe ever so slightly less.

I can beat that

Yikes!!
I had the 360 and 911 serviced on monday.
Major Service plus quickshifter fitted for the 911 and Major Service plus belts for the 360
Combined total was (just) less than your TT service and I thought I was being spanked

Jeezo!!

If it cost me that to service my car, that would be it written off!!

Next time your services are due, let me know and I'l pimp Alan out for half that!

Jen

I thought that Jen, could have fed him roasts for a week with a big cheque at the end.

tut

The garage was recommended to us as opposed to the main Audi agent.

Not actually a rip off there was a hell of a lot to do. Ian could probably post a list. However four hours labour to replace two front wheel bearings sounds excessive.

tut

Just got my TT out the garage after putting it in for a new power steering rack following a pretty catastrophic failure. Car was off the road for over four weeks while they tried to source me a rack. Audi had a twelve week back order Sourced three second hand ones - all turned out to be beyond economic refurb, sent mine downsouth to be refurbed to be told it was too far gone, and ended up managing to buy one from an Audi dealer in Bradford (which broke lots of rules apparently as it seems that the audi service network aren't allowed to share stock across the dealers. Despite having them on back order. )

So I ended up paying £750 for a new rack plus five hours fitting. And I still had to send my fuct one back to them or there was another £100 surcharge

Turns out while it was in that two of my wheels hd gone square due to the potholes on my commute and both tyres were damaged. So a new set of wheels too and a new pair of tyres (following a new pair less than six months ago when I tore both within three days on particularly nasty potholes...)

The minor service I had done at the same time was pennies in comparison...

German car prices, eh? As Renmure says, it makes the Italian equivalents look honest

Join the club Matt, finally get raped after 70 years of virginity.

tut

BREAKDOWN OF PARTS AND LABOUR ON AUDI TT

LABOUR CHARGES PRICE QTY VALUE
TO CARRY OUT SERVICE 2
TO CARRY OUT BRAKE FLUID SERVICE 0.5
TO RENEW HALDEX OIL AND OIL FILTER 0.5
TO SUPPLY AND FIT TIMING BELT AND TENSIONER 1
TO SUPPLY AND FIT WATER PUMP AND RENEW ANTIFREEZE 1
TO SUPPLY AND FIT MULTI-RIB BELT 1
TO FIT FRONT AND READ BRAKE DISCS (SUPPLIED) 2
TO RE-FIT ENGINE UNDERTRAY 0.25
TO FIT FRONT AND REAR TYRES (SUPPLIED) 1
TO SUPPLY AND FIT FUEL FILTER 0.5
TO SUPPLY AND FIT OFFSIDE SIDE LIGHT BULB 0.25
TO SUPPLY AND FIT OFFSIDE NUMBER PLATE LIGHT BULB 0.25
TO SUPPLY AND FIT WHEEL BOLTS 0.25
TO SUPPLY AND FIT BOTH FRONT WHEEL BEARINGS 4
TO SUPPLY AND FIT OFFSIDE AND NEARSIDE TRACK ROD ENDS 1
TO SUPPLY FRONT NEAR SIDE ANTI-ROLL BAR LINKS 0.5
TO SUPPLY AND FIT BOTH REAR ANTI-ROLL BAR LINKS 0.5
TO HELI-COIL REPAIR ON SUMP 0.5
TO SUPPLY AND FIT FRONT ANTI-ROLL BAR AND BUSHES 1
TO SUPPLY AND FIT BOTH FRONT BRAKE CALIPERS 1
TO SUPPLY AND FIT BOTH RETURN POWER STEERING PIPES 1
TO TOP-UP POWER STEERING FLUID 0.5
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LABOUR FOR ABOVE £45 20.5 £922.50
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PARTS USED
FLUID FILL? £6.50 1 £6.50
FLUID FILL? £11.10 1 £11.10
SPARK PLUGS £11.00 4 £44
CASTROL FULLY SYNTHETIC OIL 1/2 LITRE £3.90 8 £31.20
LUBRICANT £2.89 1 £2.89
HALDEX OIL £10.75 1 £10.75
HALDEX FILTER £24.29 1 £24.29
TIMING BELT £20.50 1 £20.50
TENSIONER £41.00 1 £41.00
WATER PUMP £30.50 1 £30.50
MULTI-RIB BELT £24.00 1 £24.00
FLUID FILL? £6.86 1 £6.86
SIDE BULB £0.85 1 £0.85
PLATE BULB £0.85 1 £0.85
WHEEL BOLT £1.80 4 £7.20
NEARSIDE TRACK ROD END £22.33 1 £22.33
OFFSIDE TRACK ROD END £22.33 1 £22.33
NEARSIDE FRONT ANTI-ROLL BAR LINK £25.59 1 £25.59
REAR ANTI-ROLL BAR LINK £17.06 2 £34.12
FRONT WHEEL BEARING £41.29 2 £82.58
FRONT ANTI-ROLL BAR £64.39 1 £64.39
ANTI-ROLL BAR BUSH £4.77 2 £9.54
HEATSHIELD CLIP £0.32 8 £2.56
OFFSIDE FRONT BRAKE CALIPER £74.00 1 £74.00
NEARSIDE FRONT BRAKE CALIPER £74.00 1 £74.00
POWER STEERING PIPE £72.96 1 £72.96
POWER STEERING PIPE £88.74 1 £88.74
POWER STEERING FLUID TOP-UP £3.60 1 £3.60
ANTIFREEZE 0.5 LITRE £3 4 £12.00
_____________________________________________________________________________________________________________
TOTAL FOR PARTS/MATERIALS AND OILS/LUBRICANTS £851.23
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PARTS SUPPLIED BY MYSELF
BRAKE FLUID £25.08 1 £25.08
FRONT BRAKE DISC £40.78 2 £81.56
REAR BRAKE DISC £29.38 2 £58.76
FRONT BRAKE PAD £9.55 4 £38.19
REAR BRAKE PAD £5.27 4 £21.09
TYRES £62.59 4 £250.36
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TOTAL FOR SUPPLIED PARTS £475.04
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WORK NEEDED TO BE DONE AS SOON AS POSSIBLE
NEARSIDE FRONT WHEEL HUB CARRIER £196.36 1 £196.36
LABOUR £45 1 £45
_____________________________________________________________________________________________________________
TOTAL FOR WORK TO BE DONE £241.36
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TOTALS
LABOUR £922.50
PARTS/MATERIALS £851.23
SUPPLIED PARTS £475.04
WORK NEEDED £241.36
_____________________________________________________________________________________________________________
TOTAL NET AMOUNT £2,490.13
TOTAL VAT AMOUNT £435.77
x £2,925.90

Audi: Vorsprung Durch Big Bills
Think I will stick to the economy class car brands

renmure wrote:Audi: Vorsprung Durch Big Bills
Think I will stick to the economy class car brands

I still think the biggest rip off was when I took my Boxster S into the Porsche garage in Edinburgh. (9 yrs old)
Basically, it had a major service done 18 months ago, but it had only done 2,000 miles since it.
So, they said all it need was an oil change.
OK, how much is that ?
£410 he replied....... and that didnt include an oil filter - he said you only change that every 2nd oil change
Anyway, didnt take his advice, left him & walked straight over to the parts dept & bought an oil filter. (£16)
then went to Costco & bought a twin pack of 2 x 4L of Mobil 1 oil. for £28
A local mechanic in Leith changed my oil & filter for me for £20 - took him 15 mins.

robbing gits - the bloody lot of them.

David

Ian / Tut, feeling your pain. Nothing worse than spending so much money only to put it back to health and not have any modifications to show for the outlay.