Motorhome service costs! Forums

DJP

Van is due for a service. It's 2 years old on a Fiat Ducato 2.8 base and hac covered 6,500 miles. Last service done by dealer at time of purchase and included in purchase price.
It's now time for its annual service. Looking in the Fiat handook and it recomends a low mileage service for all vehicles covering LESS the 18,000 miles per year. That should include mine!
Book suggests check of pad thickness, tyre condition, wear and pressure, paintwork condition, belt tensions, road test.
The ONLY parts to be replaced are oil filter and engine oil THAT'S IT!
Book also says time allowed for this job is 1.2 hours
Dealer price for this service.......................

....................... £435.00 FOUR HUNDRED AND THIRTY FIVE POUNDS

Motorhome dealer not Fiat dealer.
What do you pay?
Habitation check at same dealer is £199 inc vat and parts. Again, what do you pay and where do you get it done?

Thanks, Dennis

Wizzo

DIY, total cost about £25, or get a local garage to do it for you. It doesn't have to be a dealer even if it's still under warranty.

I said in a previous post that the word 'motorhome' seems to generate the same effect on prices as the word 'wedding'.

JohnW

StAubyns

Local garage for the service, Pecks Hill Garage, owned by Geo, a motorhomer , £!28, all genuine Fiat parts and warranty maintained.

For the habitation check, another member on here, Mark (CLS) who will come to the house and do the work

web site here

http://central-leisure-services.webs.com/index.htm

regards

Geoff

JohnsCrossMotorHomes

Habitation service £99 plus Vat and Parts
Mechanical service £110 plus Vat and Parts

Regards

Peter

Lambo

Hi, you could use £40 Tesco vouchers at Nationwide Autocenters for an annual service, cheers, Paul.

bandaid

last year my local mechanic did the MOT Full big service, changed a drive shaft and a brake overhall, and charged me £361.00

Spacerunner

Fiat main dealer, low mileage service £265.
Chausson franchised motorhome dealer, first habitation service,£199.

Fiat dealer service was OK, as far as I know, which ain't a lot!

Chausson dealer habitation service could have KILLED US BOTH!!!

After getting a whiff of LPG during the night checked out the MH gas system.
Discovered very quickly that the nipple on the test port on the gas regulator had been left loose!!...I am not happy!! Guess what my first phone call tomorrow will be?...R Twisted Evil

teemyob

Hello,

Mercedes Commercial Franchised Dealers (Enza or NMC) = Just under £90 all in for low mileage oil service.

However, I do my own, buy the oil in France and use Mercedes Filter. All other work I cannot do, I get a local Specialits HGV Garage to do it.

One of our Daughters has a Toyota Yaris, just a year old. Toyota quoted £176 for an oil service. I have booked the car in at a local independent for £60 including VAT. This will not effect her Toyota Warranty as long as they carry out the work to Toyota's specification and use genuine Parts.

Any help?

Trev.

lindyloot

Teenymoob
[/quote] use genuine Parts. [quote]
You don't have to use genuine parts but they must be of the same quality. Purflux, Mahle, Mann are all makes used in the vehicles but under the manufacture's name ,ie Citroen use purflux.

DJP
Service would be 51.10 (includes consumables and enviromental charge . £44.30 if you are a senior citizen) + oil + filter + vat. unfortunately you have the same vehicle as us and we cannot get it into our workshop Sad

We can acommodate the smaller vans.

Lin

JohnsCrossMotorHomes