I'm totally amazed a the price of repAiring newer vans and cars,
It's totally unbelievable what people are being asks to pay for
Servicing and repairing parts, it was mentioned on her about an
Alternator for £800 , a friend had four injectors for £1700
My own honda accord ctdi needs new clutch and have been quoted
£800 for clutch and may be £1500 if it needs new dual mass! Less than 70k
And 5years on these cars/vans too
£800 for an alternator !!!!! Ffs is it gold plated?
Car and van dealers really are taking the p now .!!
Over £1k for a clutch ! £800 for alternator £200plus fitting per injector!!
p take if you ask me ...... Rant over
Hi Tompoole.
Probably why the dealerships loose vehicles over 3 years old to the 'back street' garages who buy non OE parts from the local motor factors.
The motor trade will try to justify those parts prices by saying that we are paying a highly discounted price for the new vehicle in the first place which doesn't give a true reflection of parts pricing. They will point to their vehicle retail price as the basis for that.
A parts pricing exercise was once done on a Ford Escort (Mk1 I think) and the total cost of spares needed to build the car was 5 times the price of the car in the showroom. The labour to assemble all those parts was not included.
I recently purchased a temperature probe for the Citroen Xsara we own. It was faulty and causing all sorts of knock-on issues. I replaced it with the identical part (and part number) from our local Peugeot garage in the next town. Not only did I not have to travel 10 miles to the nearest Citroen garage and be messed around, but the part was also £5 cheaper from Peugeot than from Citroen.
So even pricing in house is not on a % markup on cost, but trying to get the most for a part that they can to maximise profits.