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I got a newish Focus annual service done by a main dealer for just below €150. 2 years and new pads and fluid sounds a bit premature though for your Rav 4.
I'm only a DIY'er and it wouldn't take me 6 hours, say 4 for oil, filters, brake-pads, swap wheels front to back, check fluids and road-test.... My bill states I was charged 4 hours for the service and an hour each for brake pads and brake fluid change....
Car Servicing is an organised ripoff by almost all the main dealerships and I should know because I worked in one for long enough. Now in my senior years, I offer this to the readership. The very best value in car servicing these days is to be found in the mobile auto servicing providers. Their prices are very realistic and get this: all the checks are done for certain. If needs be you can stand there and watch them or place your own marks to show you that the checks have taken place.
My last full service cost less than Euro150 and all done in one hour and twenty minutes in my own driveway plus he talked me through the service at the finish as he completed the form. The same service costs Euro 600 at the main dealers where I worked until recently. The last service I got done with that dealership cost me Euro450 because I got 25% off, being a former mate etc but much later I was satisfied that several of the service checks were not made.
Plus they give you a fully completed stamped and signed service certificate when completed. The points to be made in favour of supporting main dealerships will no longer convince me because quite simply I now know better.
The service I've used has a unit operating from somewhere in Glasnevin on the Northside and another from a South City location covering all the South side.
but you'll lose your 3 years/100000km guarantee, so make sense to me for OP for get his 06 car serviced in 07 and 08 in main approved dealer.I'm only a DIY'er and it wouldn't take me
Where was this dealer. Mine cost me just over 300 in Ford Motors Herberton Road.!!!!!!!!!! Also a focus.
This is not the case in the UK, where apart from warranty claim work, all routine servicing can be carried out by appropriate non-franchised garages. Yet another example of how the motoring public in Ireland is being bled by the main stealers.but you'll lose your 3 years/100000km guarantee, so make sense to me for OP for get his 06 car serviced in 07 and 08 in main approved dealer. ...
Just for futher comparisons, look at the price of cars. I've picked the current list prices (MY2008) of my last petrol car as an example (mine was MY2003) A Subaru Impreza WRX STi 2.5 litre 305 bhp US - $35,000 Ireland - €73,000 (US$107,900). US price may not include local state sales taxes, both prices are official Subaru RRP's....
I live in the US, and the most expensive service from a main dealer over 4 years was $27!
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