1st Service price differences, yikes!!!

This is really intrested, can't believe there is such price difference.

£235; green oval, Leeds

(30-10-2012 01:17pm)forest172 Wrote:  Just rang around 4 local dealers to me asking what the 1st service will cost on my 2.2 auto evoque

prices as follows

Dealer 1 HUNTERS Derby :- £460.00
Dealer 2 GORDON LAMB Chesterfield :- £360.00 (to be fair they did come down to £325.00 after haggling)
Dealer 3 GUY SAMON Sheffield :- £280.00
Dealer 4 STRATSTONE Nott`m :- £330.00 but will match my best price at £280.00, and will collect this tuesday

Dealer 1 ask me if I`d like it booking in and I replied "not at them prices!, when you serviced my disco 4 it wasn`t anywhere near that price." Her reply was well your new car is a "range Rover and not a Land rover, sir!" what`s that all about!?!

I will put dealers names by prices if anybodies interested to save time and effort of ringing about and if ok with mods

Hm, I thought Land Rover has fixed prices for the first service, at least that's what my dealer told me (Location: Austria).

(30-10-2012 06:53pm)XFullFatTim Wrote:  One thing that I have found is that London has cheaper labour rates than up here in Scotland - we have far less choice of dealers up here and in the Central Belt I have the choice of 6 dealerships within 2 hours drive and 2 way up north.

My nearest dealer is in Inverness, a three hour drive. Service prices for FL2 were 15% higher than Trinity LandRover in Hinkley near where we used to live. Evoque is not due for service until Jan but I expect they will try and charge the wrong side of £400 for an oil change.

Tony

My Brother has a new FL2 and he just paid £350 for its first service

£836.54 for 1st three services direct debit monthly over 32 months. Stratstones bury

(30-10-2012 10:22pm)richardk Wrote:  £235; green oval, Leeds

Thanks for the recommendation Richard, did you get sorted with the dealer over the clutch pedal switch?
Brian
Green Oval

Wow what a difference in price, pays to do some ringing around!

It is worth noting that Green Oval is not an authorised Land Rover Dealer, but an indepandent.
I have nothing against good independents and would use one myself after my warranty runs out. While the car is under warranty I think that if I used an independent for serviceng I would suffer financially at resale time due to not having main dealer stamps in my service book, no matter how good the independent was.
I would love it to be different and independents give much better value than main dealers but I cant take the risk, so it looks like circa £350 for my first service

There is nothing to stop you using an independent either so long as they use LR parts to carry out any work, do the work in accordance with LR service instructions and stamp your book. Land Rover also has approved "service only" outlets that are not dealerships, the problem is finding out who they are! They used to be listed in the back of the service manual but aren't any longer