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BMW dealer repair estimate question

  • 02-02-2012 9:20pm
    #1
    daywalker
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 552 ✭✭✭


    I handed in my 98 bmw 318i to get a service estimate done on it as its coming up to its NCT, and the BMW service workshop came back with the following issues

    Radial oil seal for shift shaft
    oil service
    rear brake hoses + fluid
    Control arms brackets bushings
    replace 2x rear tailing arm rubber mounting
    replace rubber mounts for stabilizer
    replace all exhaust mountings
    replace both rear shock absorbers
    and a wiper blade

    for which they wanted to charge me 750 for parts and 1500 for labour, is this excessive for the amount of work that would need to be done, or is it just about right, what I noticed is that each job had a separate labour cost associated, my feeling would be if your working on the rear brake hoses, then you would replace the rear shocks and any mountings there at the same time?
    Thanks


Comments

  • #2
    Nissan doctor
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,223 ✭✭✭Nissan doctor


    A 98 car into a main dealer??


    You could have all the same work done in a decent independent garage for vastly less....especially the labour.

    As for combining labour, changing rear brake pipes has no connection to changing rear shocks, which has no connection to changing rear bushes etc etc.


  • #3
    George Dalton
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,728 ✭✭✭George Dalton


    You take a 98 car into a main dealer and are then surprised when they quote you a fortune for the work they claim it needs? How did you not see that one coming? :pac:


  • #4
    mickdw
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,688 ✭✭✭✭mickdw


    You would be stone mad to consider that price. How much is a 98 318 even worth?


  • #5
    Captain Slow IRL
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,651 ✭✭✭Captain Slow IRL


    The cheapest way to go about that would be just to put the car through the test and bring the fail sheet (if it fails) to a trusted independant mechanic - you'll be guaranteed it will cost you significantly less than what the main dealer has quoted you.


  • #6
    vicwatson
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,404 ✭✭✭✭vicwatson


    Labour 120 an hour at least in main dealer.

    I've never left my beemer in for service without them calling me with a list of things as long as your arm, They LOOK for problems for you !!

    As suggested either go through NCT and see what's really wrong or go to your local mechanic


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  • #7
    daywalker
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 552 ✭✭✭daywalker


    George Dalton wrote: »
    You take a 98 car into a main dealer and are then surprised when they quote you a fortune for the work they claim it needs? How did you not see that one coming? :pac:
    I've never owned a BMW or any other car before this and there was a fsh with main BMW service workshops in the logbook for past 14 years of cars life so I just kept with it and handed it into my local BMW dealer I'll look into a local independent mechanic for service instead


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