'A' Service = SHOCK Of My Life

[Rory]

No. The plug change is not part of a service. It is done at a set mileage like, say, 50k. If you get that done, and then go for a service at say 53k, they would and should stamp the book.

They're not part of "a service", but they are part of the service schedule. Your not meant to rush to the dealer and get additional work done as it arises (ie at 50K in your eaxample). The idea is that all the additional work is carried out at the next scheduled service. So if you don't have the work done that the schedule calls for then the dealer could, quite rightly, say the car hasn't been fully serviced.

Whether they would take into account a plug change done outside the network probably varies person by person, but they could quite legitimately say no. To extend your argument, why not get all the work done somewhere else and then ask MB just to do the checks and stamp the book?

 

[hawk20]

They're not part of "a service", but they are part of the service schedule. Your not meant to rush to the dealer and get additional work done as it arises (ie at 50K in your eaxample). The idea is that all the additional work is carried out at the next scheduled service. So if you don't have the work done that the schedule calls for then the dealer could, quite rightly, say the car hasn't been fully serviced.

Whether they would take into account a plug change done outside the network probably varies person by person, but they could quite legitimately say no. To extend your argument, why not get all the work done somewhere else and then ask MB just to do the checks and stamp the book?

Because they would not have done the service which the stamp signifies. Simple as that.

But you can leave dealers, go away and get work done elsewhere and then return to the fold, get dealer servicing and the stamps on the services as they do them and be reinstated in full Mobilo cover. See the link I gave earlier.

 

[Rory]

Basic servicing costs the average customer on average miles about 2p per mile.

There's that "basic" caveat again.

If it's only 2p/mile, why does MB ask for £1530 for 3yrs/36K miles for Care only (standard scheduled services) on E Class? That's 4.25p/mile.

(And I wonder why is it based on 12K/yr, when the car should be on fixed 15,500 mile/12 mth intervals anyway).

 

[hawk20]

There's that "basic" caveat again.

If it's only 2p/mile, why does MB ask for £1530 for 3yrs/36K miles for Care only (standard scheduled services)? That's 4.25p/mile.

(And I wonder why is it based on 12K/yr, when the car should be on fixed 15,500 mile/12 mth intervals anyway).

Read the T's and C's. Covers a lot more than basic servicing. Newish cars all now go A then B alternately. My MB dealer charges afixed prices around £200 for the A and 310 for the B service on an E class. That is about £250 per year for someone doing 10to 15k miles per year. Peanuts in the general scheme of things.

 

[Rory]

Read the T's and C's. Covers a lot more than basic servicing.

It covers scheduled servicing for 36k/3yrs, so that would mean A / B+brake fluid / A.

If you want any more than that then you have to buy Total Care, and that adds "repairs on friction parts".

 

[hawk20]

Have a look at this one: -
http://www.mbclub.co.uk/forums/general-discussion/67271-class-160cdi-costs-over-four-years.html

 

[omega1]

hi all, I have a C220 CDI (W203) which has 53k and is due an A service and was wondering what is due at this A service at this mileage? And what is the likely cost?

Thanks