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(Message started by: scruffygyt on Jan 20^th, 2008, 7:30pm)

Title: priice for service wow!!
Post by scruffygyt on Jan 20^th, 2008, 7:30pm

As my car had full service history when i bought it i thought i would enquire at my local ford dealers to get a price for a 100,000 mile service, the price they gave me was 175 pounds for service plus 100 pounds for some part that has to be fitted to the drive train plus 80 pounds to fit it, total 355 pounds, so DIY it is then.

Title: Re: priice for service wow!!
Post by jonnycab on Jan 21^st, 2008, 1:03am

£175 to change the oil, filters etc & check the car over :o......& £180 for some part they say needs replacing in the drive chain, even though they haven't actually seen the car yet ???

Keep well away from FMD if you have an old car. Only cars under warantee get the best service at FMD. They are really not interested in old cars that are out of warantee :)

Keep reading the sections on the main site on how to service/repair the Scorpio. Any problems you get, just post them in the Forums :)

Also it might be a good idea to get friendly with a good local garage/mechanic, as they are usually alot cheaper than FMD & alot more reliable :)

Title: Re: priice for service wow!!
Post by TiberiuS on Jan 21^st, 2008, 1:07am

Mine cost me £850 for the dealer to sort the brakes, hubs, suspension and a few other things just to get it through the MOT. But Scorpios weren't quite so cheap then and I got mine for a d**n good price. We'd just moved and I had so much work to do on the place, just didn't have the time to do it all myself so paying out just to get it on the road was the lesser of two evils :)

Title: Re: priice for service wow!!
Post by scruffygyt on Jan 21^st, 2008, 10:53am

your right jc i got the impression they didnt want to do the job, as for the part that needed replacing they said its a major part that has to be replaced every 100,000 miles ? when the time comes i will do it myself, anyone know which grade of oil. fully or semi synthetic?

Title: Re: priice for service wow!!
Post by a900one on Jan 22^nd, 2008, 6:41pm

I use 5/40 fully synthetic in my cosworth. But you will need to change it again after approx 2000 miles as it will clean the engine. Halfords sometimes do a 1/3 off, or better, on their fully synthetic which is what I use.

Title: Re: priice for service wow!!
Post by Highlander on Jan 22^nd, 2008, 7:20pm

on 01/21/08 at 10:53:25, scruffygyt wrote:

they said its a major part that has to be replaced every 100,000 miles ?

I cant even think what that is??
Cant see anthing that mentions replacing major parts at 100,000 miles

Title: Re: priice for service wow!!
Post by scruffygyt on Jan 22^nd, 2008, 7:50pm

apparently its the rubber joint on the prop-shaft,

Title: Re: priice for service wow!!
Post by TiberiuS on Jan 24^th, 2008, 2:17am

on 01/22/08 at 19:20:51, Highlander wrote:

I cant even think what that is??
Cant see anthing that mentions replacing major parts at 100,000 miles

The driver? :-/

;D

Title: Re: priice for service wow!!
Post by mijfife on Jan 24^th, 2008, 9:20am

As a competent home mechanic, I've never seen the point of dealer servicing. I think it mentions on here that a fully stamped service history is no guarantee that the work has been done. I have a friend who works in a major garage chain and their garage is an approved main dealer. The horror stories I hear from him would put you off for life:o One example was the 3rd year apprentice who just gave the oil filter a wipe with a rag because it was difficult to get it off!!! The car still got it's service stamp though.......
If you can't do the work yourself, try and find a small independent garage who cares about keeping their customers.
As I'm never likely to own anything under 8 years old, the cost of keeping up a service history would soon outway the cost of the car, I just keep records of everything I do myself.

Cheers Jim

Title: Re: priice for service wow!!
Post by peteHull on Jan 24^th, 2008, 9:47am

on 01/24/08 at 09:20:51, mijfife wrote:

As a competent home mechanic, I've never seen the point of dealer servicing. I think it mentions on here that a fully stamped service history is no guarantee that the work has been done.

Back in the seventies when I worked for a VERY large (at the time) Opal dealer in Hull (Moores of Hull) as a DRIVER Labourer I became that involved with vehicle servicing (Plugs point oil and filters including cleaning brakes and checking etc etc) that I ended up buying a very expensive tool kit. I was never trained but I used to carry out the work competently so the management were happy..... after a while I was moved to the bodyshop where I undertook complete strip and rebuilds of damaged cars to enable body repairs and painting etc, did some COMPLETE down to shell jobs on brand new cars to allow costomisation of company livery ie (Brinkmans, a dutch growers firm) I gained a lot of experience in the 2 years I was there.

That is why I would never pay for a service (Unless I could observe the work carried out....

Edit.... The tools got pinched out of my car when I was doing someone a favour.... Typical init... :-/

Pete

Title: Re: priice for service wow!!
Post by Chieftain on Jan 24^th, 2008, 5:27pm

To add to this, my other half's P reg Escort need front right wheelbearing changed and MoT, FMD quote £157.33 to change bearing alone, new found local garage charged £123 all done, says something does it not? one very happy lady collected her Escort. ;D

Title: Re: priice for service wow!!
Post by Highlander on Jan 24^th, 2008, 6:17pm

on 01/24/08 at 17:27:55, Chieftain wrote:

new found local garage charged £123 all done

I would write my car off rather than pay money to a garage :)

The closest mine gets to one is going to pick up an oil filter from the FMD ;D

Title: Re: priice for service wow!!
Post by Highlander on Jan 24^th, 2008, 6:22pm

on 01/22/08 at 19:50:21, scruffygyt wrote:

apparently its the rubber joint on the prop-shaft,

This is the part I think they mean..

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Ford-Granada-Scorpio-prop-shaft-rubber-coupling-New_W0QQitemZ140199664125QQihZ004QQcategoryZ21654QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

I'd just leave it until it goes, chances are it wont ;D

Title: Re: priice for service wow!!
Post by Chieftain on Jan 24^th, 2008, 10:36pm

Quote:

I would write my car off rather than pay money to a garage :)

Tend to agree but as it was MOT really have no choice and running the business leave very little time to do all the jobs that always need doing. ;D

Title: Re: priice for service wow!!
Post by TRACEYS_LIMO on Feb 7^th, 2008, 8:12pm

:o hi I had one of those go on my mk1 granada years ago it was a 1973 car and it went in 1986 it perished and came apart it did no damage to the car but it sounds like a brick going around in a empty cement mixer really noisy when it happens, shortly after a oak tree fell on it in the 87 storm :'(, will check with my mot mate to see if it is included in the mot checks ;)