BMW expensive wipers

adrian92 · 26-05-2018 03:26AM #1

I was charged €95 for wipers, supplied and fitted yesterday, from a BMW dealership.
Seems very expensive, or is this normal?

jacksie66 · 26-05-2018 03:52AM

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Del2005 · 26-05-2018 04:13AM

adrian92 wrote: »

I was charged €95 for wipers, supplied and fitted yesterday, from a BMW dealership.
Seems very expensive, or is this normal?

It's expensive and normal for a main dealer. How much did they charge you for the washer water? That's another scam they have.

The Bishop Basher · 26-05-2018 05:26AM

adrian92 wrote: »

I was charged €95 for wipers, supplied and fitted yesterday, from a BMW dealership.

:eek:

adrian92 wrote: »

Seems very expensive

It is..

adrian92 wrote: »

or is this normal?

Yes. Never go to a main dealer unless you have to maintain a warranty and even then I wouldn't let them near my wipers at €95..

EPAndlee · 26-05-2018 05:29AM

Last time I changed mine it was 35 euro for the wipers and about 30 seconds to fit them

Reati · 26-05-2018 05:47AM

adrian92 wrote: »

I was charged €95 for wipers, supplied and fitted yesterday, from a BMW dealership.
Seems very expensive, or is this normal?

There ie getting rode and then there is that. I'd had have laughed down the phone if I heard that quoted.

CalamariFritti · 26-05-2018 06:04AM

I dont get the wipers thing actually. Even €35 for 2 slightly fancy pieces of rubber in cheap metal frame seems absolutely insane. You'd think wipers should/would be a fiver. Don't get me started on €95. Is there something I dont know about wipers ? Like the rubber must be harvested by a virgin under a full moon or something?

Gumbo · 26-05-2018 09:08AM

adrian92 wrote: »

I was charged €95 for wipers, supplied and fitted yesterday, from a BMW dealership.
Seems very expensive, or is this normal?

Its not expensive for a main dealer service item with receipt from the main dealer and a record that you were there at a particular time with a particular mileage.

I love buying cars that people done this

But, yes, you could have got them cheaper online or in a local motor factors. Probably about €50 for the genuine Bosch versions that BMW use and then you fit them yourself.

mickdw · 26-05-2018 09:12AM

35 is what bosch ones cost for my car. They are the single piece blade type and to be honest considering the improvement these are over the older style wipers, I happily pay that. They never screech or jump and are completely silent. I only swap them as in time they start to mark a slight noise when changing direction but I could see them lasting me 2 years without issue if I so wished.
Having used all types down the years, these wipers are a god send and one of the most useful improvements in modern cars.

95 is of course taking the piss.

Gumbo · 26-05-2018 09:15AM

mickdw wrote: »

35 is what bosch ones cost for my car. They are the single piece blade type and to be honest considering the improvement these are over the older style wipers, I happily pay that. They never screech or jump and are completely silent. I only swap them as in time they start to mark a slight noise when changing direction but I could see them lasting me 2 years without issue if I so wished.
Having used all types down the years, these wipers are a god send and one of the most useful improvements in modern cars.

95 is of course taking the piss.

€40 plus postage for the Bosch ones on Micks Garage for my 5 Series.
So OP could of saved approx. €48.

In reality, what would a decent price from a Main Dealer to supply and fit these be?

bazz26 · 26-05-2018 09:19AM

I priced them for an F10 recently and local main dealer wanted €50.

bop1977 · 26-05-2018 10:15AM

Skoda superb front wipers are €55 from Skoda.

Uncharted · 26-05-2018 10:20AM

For €95,they would have to wipe my arse after a feed of curry too....

AndyBoBandy · 26-05-2018 10:23AM

Bosch wipers in Halfords for about €35 for my 3 Series, fitted in less than 20 seconds!!

Wailin · 26-05-2018 11:05AM

Just ordered a pair of bosch blades on Amazon for €29 plus a free bottle of screenwash. Ridiculous prices as usual from a bmw dealer.

CalamariFritti · 26-05-2018 11:13AM

BMW are still making good cars. My current one is a BMW and my previous one was a BMW too. And I couldn't fault them. But the ridiculous carry on with regards to service and parts pricing is going to anger a lot of otherwise loyal customers. They want to cut that sh1t out or they're going to lose business in the long run.

Colleague of mine was asked for just shy of €30 for a fkn light bulb and it was just a silly side light bulb, nothing fancy, no main headlight, no xenon or led. Just a fkn light bulb like you'd expect to pay a couple of Euro for.

JohnBoy26 · 26-05-2018 12:02PM

AndyBoBandy wrote: »

Bosch wipers in Halfords for about €35 for my 3 Series, fitted in less than 20 seconds!!

I bet you'd get them cheaper at a factors. Halfords is very expensive usually when it comes to wipers.

Eamonn8448 · 26-05-2018 12:09PM

Main Dealer = mean stealer , avoid the stealerships if you can !!

delly · 26-05-2018 12:12PM

Tesco did great wipers for under a tenner, but stopped selling them recently unfortunately.

Related to this though, I remember seeing a device online recently that skimmed the base few millimetres off the wiper, essentially making them fresh for another while. No idea if it worked, but the video looked convincing.

grogi · 26-05-2018 12:16PM

adrian92 wrote: »

I was charged €95 for wipers, supplied and fitted yesterday, from a BMW dealership.
Seems very expensive, or is this normal?

It is expensive, but absolutely normal for BMW dealership.

In their defence, the price is perfectly justified. Wipers in a BMW have special construction - they blend especially formed rubber, reinforced with metal construction and carefully shaped to use the dynamic pressure of passing air to increase the wiping strength.

All that to unleash maximum wiping performance under all conditions, from sunny California to snowy mountains of Norway. ...

hognef · 26-05-2018 12:17PM

Anybody tried this? https://ecocut-pro.de/en/

Dakota Dan · 26-05-2018 12:20PM

adrian92 wrote: »

I was charged €95 for wipers, supplied and fitted yesterday, from a BMW dealership.
Seems very expensive, or is this normal?

Did you ask them for a quote beforehand?

Dakota Dan · 26-05-2018 12:22PM

Eamonn8448 wrote: »

Main Dealer = mean stealer , avoid the stealerships if you can !!

I bought wipers in the main dealer store for a mazda 6 €17 for the pair and fitted them myself.

Eamonn8448 · 26-05-2018 12:30PM

mazda ford and a few more are ok to buy from Dan its their labour costs im giving out about, 50 max for those beamers is enough, remember years ago back door lock was gone in a ford couirer i was driving under warranty, went to collect the part , said they had it booked in for 3 hours to do the lock, no word of a lie i did it there and then in the yard in under 6 minutes and told them pretend i left it there, only a fecking horseshoe clip holding it on !

Jimmy Dags · 26-05-2018 12:32PM

I hope the ky jelly was free op.

Toyotafanboi · 26-05-2018 12:37PM

I'd say @ €95 for 2x front blades, they must have charged for fitting? Which is poor enough form really, they'll unlikely get you back again for other bits.

That said you have to be prepared for premium bills when going to a BMW after sales department, expecting anything else would be naive. €50-60 would have been a fair price for genuine blades from the dealer IMO.

Some main dealer wipers are just seriously expensive though. When I was working for a Renault dealer a set of OEM blades for a Mk3 Megane was around €65 and when we needed wipers for our Astra J, the cheapest set I could find in a bricks and mortar store was €60.

HappyAsLarE · 26-05-2018 01:16PM

CalamariFritti wrote: »

BMW are still making good cars. My current one is a BMW and my previous one was a BMW too. And I couldn't fault them. But the ridiculous carry on with regards to service and parts pricing is going to anger a lot of otherwise loyal customers. They want to cut that sh1t out or they're going to lose business in the long run.

Colleague of mine was asked for just shy of €30 for a fkn light bulb and it was just a silly side light bulb, nothing fancy, no main headlight, no xenon or led. Just a fkn light bulb like you'd expect to pay a couple of Euro for.

They are great cars up to 5 years old :-D

talla · 26-05-2018 01:28PM

I usually get mine from https://www.wiperblades.co.uk/.
Fairly cheap for the blades themselves though shipping not so good @ £10.25 (£3.25 if you go down the PM/ PW route).

ION08 · 26-05-2018 01:34PM

€92 is absolutely mad money, especially given how easy they are to change!

I recently replaced the wipers on my Audi. (Bosch Aerotwins)

Priced them at €42 in Halfords and got super lucky and picked up a brand new set off Adverts.ie for €15.

They literally clip on and off in less than 1 minute!!

What model of BMW are you driving OP?

Heres Johnny · 26-05-2018 02:38PM

Yeah mad money. Why anyone goes to a dealership for wipers and bulbs is beyond me. I understand a main dealer service history helps with warranty and resale but not for this type of stuff. And it's not just BMW but with their huge overheads and fancy showrooms they will gouge you any chance they get.

bazz26 · 26-05-2018 02:47PM

I've used Bosch wipers I bought online before on my BMWs and they were fine for a few months but then started squealing and streaking on the windscreen. I think I paid about €35 for them delivered, I changed them to OEM ones which I bought from the local main dealer for €50 and while they are still made by Bosch they lasted nearly 2 years on the same car so while they were more expensive than buying online and apparently made by Bosch they lasted way longer. €50 to get two years out of a set of wipers is good value imo but I wouldn't pay another €45 euro to have the dealer fit them. It takes less than a minute on the F10.

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