Seams okay to me. My service on Thursday is full service with brake fluid change on 123d and is £235ish at a BMW specialist. For that he is throwing on a new battery and coding it that I bought myself got half the price of BMW wanted.
Cant work out how to find if its LL04 spec or not?
Also does it have to be 5.2 Litres or will 5Litres suffice?
Another thing whats the labour time like for oil filter and microfiler like? Their charging me 159 (not sure if this is inc VAT) for oil and microfilter and if I supply my own oil, microfilter and oil filter thats going to run me £57 from Euro car parts. so thats £100 labour which is like an 1hr30 mins labour, does this sound correct?
^ That one doesn't look LL04 to me, and 1.5 hours sounds a little long. They sometimes quote me longer than necessary just in case, but only bill me for the time taken.
If cost is such an issue then why don't you just take it to an independent garage instead of a BMW dealership or even better do the work yourself? I think the price you've been quoted is very fair but it obviously still isn't cheap enough, I certainly wouldn't be taking a ten year old car to the dealers. If my M135 didn't have the service pack I would be servicing that myself now it's out of warranty.
I do my own servicing on my car. Get change out of £80.00. Quite frankly after BMW destroyed my R53 Cooper S engine with less than 30,000 miles I would not trust them with my cars ever again.
^ That one doesn't look LL04 to me, and 1.5 hours sounds a little long. They sometimes quote me longer than necessary just in case, but only bill me for the time taken.
If cost is such an issue then why don't you just take it to an independent garage instead of a BMW dealership or even better do the work yourself? I think the price you've been quoted is very fair but it obviously still isn't cheap enough, I certainly wouldn't be taking a ten year old car to the dealers. If my M135 didn't have the service pack I would be servicing that myself now it's out of warranty.
I do my own servicing on my car. Get change out of £80.00. Quite frankly after BMW destroyed my R53 Cooper S engine with less than 30,000 miles I would not trust them with my cars ever again.
I'd say never take a car to that dealership rather than BMW. Don't tar them all with the same brush. I've always got on well with Cooper Malton and I'm sure Cotswold Gloucester won't be too bad.
Came in at £100 so plus the £64 for parts I sourced thats £164
£165 in total happy with that!
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