Service Plan Costs

(16-08-2012 01:16pm)vinda Wrote:  Thanks for the advice guys. Phoned around a few. £310 cheapest local dealer so far!!

Which dealer?

Stratford upon Avon. Guy salmon. Do not use Coventry guy salmon,they quoted me 400. When I told them where to go it dropped to 328. Scamming bartenders

(17-08-2012 12:01am)vinda Wrote:  Stratford upon Avon. Guy salmon. Do not use Coventry guy salmon,they quoted me 400. When I told them where to go it dropped to 328. Scamming bartenders

Thanks Vinda, Given they are sister companes, having this variable phone around pricing structure is a very poor customer experience, Mazda gave me the fixed pricing of the servicing for 5 years when I brought the car and cheap (relatively) it was too. Or maybe LR's standard price is so high that Dealers all drop to what they think they can get away with...

Wake up LR, you got the customers you want from other brands, now treat them like they are used to...

Just had my 16k service at Hartwell land Rover Oxford.

Price. £380 inc vat and courtesy car.

Thanks Cutter, I'll probably not be reaching 16000 before the year is out... I don't think. So a couple of months to go.

Interestingly the Service plan that was offered to me at £35 a month for 3 years (from Coventry), would work out at £420 a year, plus the fact the monies gone in advance so I didn't take it. Don't know if 2nd or 3rd year service is dearer, but vinda for £310 then that's a massive saving on the service plan!

They pushed the service plan because it protects aganst inflation... If we see 30% inflation in 3 years were all doomed anyway

I had contacted customer service about the service plan costs and what options there were when I got the vehicle as I thought it expensive and never got any reply.

Service plans are just a way for sales departments to collect and sit on your money. There is no benefit to taking them.

It's funny really that we are all suggesting negotiating a price for a £350 service....did anyone manage to get a deal on the £45,000 vehicle?

(17-08-2012 08:19pm)Kentboy Wrote:  It's funny really that we are all suggesting negotiating a price for a £350 service....did anyone manage to get a deal on the £45,000 vehicle?

Save the penny's & all that.

Always a deal to be had......

(17-08-2012 09:37pm)doug Wrote:  
Save the penny's & all that.

Absolutely why give it away for an oil and filter change when Saving £110 on the service cost for 1 year and thats a tin of EXO for all my cars for free