main dealer prices

[bones96]

had a quote from subaru for one of these

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they wanted

£356.00 how can they justify that

[2Thumbs]

Geuine part. They always have a stupidly high mark up compared to OEM. And it's mostly 'small' stuff that is most inflated.Genuine cat for the Lolver is £280, aftermarket is £80.

[500tops]

about 3 years ago i drove my C32 Laurel into the static caravan we were staying in, this resulted in a fooked drivers door - i tried the local dealer who i thought would laugh me out of the showroom & in to the following week. Imagine my surprise when they said they could get the door within a few days...'how much' i asked... 'errr, that's £398 sir' Turns out the handle was 80 odd quid & the rubber rubbing strip was the thick end of £70!

[Mat.T]

toyota wanted some like £990 for a rear door skin for my hiace!

[Ratdat]

How about £50 for a set of points and a dizzy cap from renault for my 5TL. I jest not. That said, they did supply new interior window winder handles for my R11 for a fiver each which seems reasonable. New chrome gutter trims for it were £25 each though

[Station]

£50 for a bolt on a Lotus Carlton. A bolt!I have always paid for dealer stuff, it's just piece of mind, especially on things like rubber mounts. Motor Factor's rubber stuff may as well be made out of liquorice, it's rubbish!

[Pillock]

Not you know why so many old cars are written off... have an accident, gets shipped to the nearest repair centre who put 0% effort into finding cheapest parts so ring dealers. Phone the insurance company with the total repair cost who shit themselves and write it off.My Audi 90 was a cat D, for a broken ignition switch and dented bootlid/cracked reflective strip.Dealer wanted £88 for the ignition switch, £150 for the centre strip on the boot and £295 for the bootlid itself. Obviously plus painting and labour puts it well over the value of the car. I replaced all the parts via ebay for £26, apart from the bootlid which I lived with as it was hardly noticable once pushed from the back.

[Station]

I got a Cat C write off for this:

 

 

A scratch. The bumper just needed bolting back on as the impact had broken it. 700 quid.

 

I 'bought it back' and it's been like that for three years. Car was left at the dealers where the monkey's working there had taken parts off it and some apprentice had already applied for a log book. Cheeky twats.

 

They wrote -this- off for the scrapyard!!!!

 

 

[Richard]

We've been quoted £415 for a pair of track rod ends for my work Transit. That includes fitting and VAT but it still seems a bit steep. I've had a look at them, they are very simple and not particularly beefy.

[Pillock]

You know I've quite got the horn for GSis in that shape.Just a shame 95% of them have been 'modified' to the point of making me want to puke, or rusted so badly the only option was to rob the engine for the oh-so-predictable Corsa 'valver' and scrap it. Yours looks very, very nice though.

[bones96]

had to buy a reverse light switch for the scooby couple of weeks ago £45.00 for a switch smaller than a matchbox ??

[Guest]

Citroen wanted £70 for a C4 glovebox lid and about the same again for the surround.Replaced today via eBay - £30. Took some finding though, and it has got a scuff, but nowt a bit of bumper snot won't sort.Broke the indicator stalk (don't ask - road rage episode) and the main dealer wanted £118. Found an OEM on Ebay - £20 delivered.I also got these wiper blades (right yeah that's enough fuck off yeah - the whole of Autoshite).

[shite_meister]

Not you know why so many old cars are written off... have an accident, gets shipped to the nearest repair centre who put 0% effort into finding cheapest parts so ring dealers. Phone the insurance company with the total repair cost who shit themselves and write it off.

Not always true, I am a bod who does bodywork estimates, sometimes the insurance assessor will agree to a 'contract repair' whereby it will be repaired for a fixed price if the client wants or the assessor sees fit, a point worth raising if anyone has an accident and is afraid that their car will be written off. Secondhand parts could be used in these circumstances although obvoiusly if the bodyshop concerned has a bit of sense they'll be picky about what used parts they use from a safety point.This is unlikely to happen at a main dealer as they'll only be interested in selling their own new parts.

[Pete-M]

Not you know why so many old cars are written off... have an accident, gets shipped to the nearest repair centre who put 0% effort into finding cheapest parts so ring dealers. Phone the insurance company with the total repair cost who shit themselves and write it off.

Not always true, I am a bod who does bodywork estimates, sometimes the insurance assessor will agree to a 'contract repair' whereby it will be repaired for a fixed price if the client wants or the assessor sees fit, a point worth raising if anyone has an accident and is afraid that their car will be written off. Secondhand parts could be used in these circumstances although obvoiusly if the bodyshop concerned has a bit of sense they'll be picky about what used parts they use from a safety point.This is unlikely to happen at a main dealer as they'll only be interested in selling their own new parts.

When the Jensen was bumped into last year an insurance assesor came out, turned white, looked nervous and said "Um, I can, er,... will £1500 do? Fix it yourself like". I pointed out that a secondhand bumper is £650+vat, the wing was £530+vat and that the couple of hundred quid left over after buying bits was unlikely to pay for the paint, never mind fitting everything. He approved repair after that. Came to £3500.

[FredTransit]

We've been quoted £415 for a pair of track rod ends for my work Transit. That includes fitting and VAT but it still seems a bit steep. I've had a look at them, they are very simple and not particularly beefy.

Mk6? You are lucky. I need a time machine to get bits from a main dealer for mine.......

[Richard]

Mk7 I think, it's the current shape anyway.

[trigger]

Took my old 04 Focus TDCi to the main dealers a coupe of years ago, It was the 60k service and as it already had full Ford history i thought it be worth more if i kept it up to date (Silly me)They charged £175 the the pleasure of just changing the Oil and Oil filter!, Honest, Thats all they done plus one of there pointless 'check ups'.On the plus side i got a nice tin of Imperial mints, but no car wash.

[shite_meister]

Not you know why so many old cars are written off... have an accident, gets shipped to the nearest repair centre who put 0% effort into finding cheapest parts so ring dealers. Phone the insurance company with the total repair cost who shit themselves and write it off.

Not always true, I am a bod who does bodywork estimates, sometimes the insurance assessor will agree to a 'contract repair' whereby it will be repaired for a fixed price if the client wants or the assessor sees fit, a point worth raising if anyone has an accident and is afraid that their car will be written off. Secondhand parts could be used in these circumstances although obvoiusly if the bodyshop concerned has a bit of sense they'll be picky about what used parts they use from a safety point.This is unlikely to happen at a main dealer as they'll only be interested in selling their own new parts.

When the Jensen was bumped into last year an insurance assesor came out, turned white, looked nervous and said "Um, I can, er,... will £1500 do? Fix it yourself like". I pointed out that a secondhand bumper is £650+vat, the wing was £530+vat and that the couple of hundred quid left over after buying bits was unlikely to pay for the paint, never mind fitting everything. He approved repair after that. Came to £3500.

Obviously classic stuff is different and in that case you were right to hold out for the full whack, I was talking more mainstream cars. I'm not saying one way or another is right but if it meant getting a car repaired well without it having to be written off and everybody is happy then thats a result.

[FredTransit]

Mk7 I think, it's the current shape anyway.

Sounds about right. Not so right when the same van gets to be worth £400 though, why would you spend what the van's worth on some parts that won't last another 5 years? OK by then you won't be going to a main dealer, but by then the parts will be more......

[Richard]

I don't think it's fair to compare dealer prices with second hand prices.The most dramatic difference I have seen was a ball joint for a Mazda 626. Mazda wanted £238+VAT and, of course, several weeks. I got one off the shelf in a local motor factor for £10+VAT. The genuine one came with the bottom arm attached but there was no need for that, the ball joint can easily be pressed out of the arm.Often you can get the real thing from a motor factor, for example I got a Valeo headlight for my Fiesta for a little over half the dealer price. Dealer parts aren't always more expensive though. These hideous stick-on mirror glasses from Halfords that kill the adjusting mechanism are frequently more expensive than the genuine glass. The pads for sticking the rear view mirror back on come in packs of two and cost much more than the real ones. The real ones come individually- go figure.I usually check the dealer price and the motor factor price, if the dealer part isn't too much more, I'll buy it. The dealers aren't really for the likes of us though.

[Guest]

Dealers can be inconsistently good sometimes, I know someone who asked his local Honda showroom for a '79 Accord front wing not so long ago. He ended up getting the wing, the opposite side wing, a whole load other stuff they still had in stock and it was all free I think because he was the only person to have asked about parts for that model in years! Maybe theyd just done a stocktake or something and the skip lorry hasnt shown up yet

[Milford Cubicle]

I'm smarting a bit from paying £55 for an obscure pipe I broke on my Peugeot.However the local main dealer, the hated Arnold Clark, is usually really handy for parts that you can't get elsewhere - £3 for an intercooler gasket, delivered.

[Richard]

My last Peugeot was always breaking hideously expensive, dealer-only parts. It was a supposedly unbreakable 505 too.

[Station]

I use Mitsubishi in North Wales, which also doubles up as a Daihatsu dealer. The place is rather cluttered, they have stored a load of stuff in the corner in the reception area (including the christmas tree):

 

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They spent AGES searching a microfiche in the back room for a knock sensor, and then came back with the parts numbers and wouldn't give them to me. Even covering the piece of paper with his hand so I couldn't see them. Mitsu parts are stupidly expensive.

[Guest]

Took my old 04 Focus TDCi to the main dealers a coupe of years ago, It was the 60k service and as it already had full Ford history i thought it be worth more if i kept it up to date (Silly me)They charged £175 the the pleasure of just changing the Oil and Oil filter!, Honest, Thats all they done plus one of there pointless 'check ups'.On the plus side i got a nice tin of Imperial mints, but no car wash.

Haha, I learned that trick of a main stealer a while ago. Now my car will only go into a main agent if it's something nowhere else can do - like read a fault code that no one else has the machine for.Normally because you'll get a charming list of shit back coming to at least a thousand pounds that they've found 'wrong' with the car whilst 'checking everything'.I went to the Abbey Peugeot in Sale (patronising bastards if ever I saw them) to have the airbag light sensor reset on my 306. I sat and waited while they sorted it out, and for some reason my car was on the lift with the wheels off it.'Strange' I thought, 'why do the wheels have to be off the car for a new seatbelt tensioner and airbag sensor to be fitted?'I paid my £60 for the job and got handed a 'list of faults' that would have won the Booker Prize for Outstanding Fiction if they had an automotive section.I got the service manager to come down and explain himself after informing the desk monkey that two thirds of the list was 'complete bollocks'. My favourite was the fact that they completely missed the utterly shagged front wheel bearing, and that they said a plastic drop link was 'bent'.I asked for qualification on that last one, and wanted to see evidence of said 'bent' drop link. I only thought they could snap, or had I been under the car with a blowtorch again?Manager got very red faced and said 'we don't allow customers on the workshop floor for insurance reasons'.I quickly grabbed the sheet off the desk, accused them of being robbing cunts (had this been my mum's car she would have shit it and thought her car was a deathtrap) and sent the offending advisory to Trading Standards, who said they'd investigate.I also copied it and gave it to my local indie garage who knew my car very well. The head mechanic laughed continuously for about three minutes reading the detail off it.

[Negative Creep]

Aerial for a mk.2 Golf GTI.........................£63+vat