I used to dream about services costing so little. Big service on my 999 about a year ago - well over £1'000. Now that is a bill.
buy a haynes manual and do it yourself....youll appreciate your bike more by getting your hands dirty on it
Agreed 150 + VAT is sweet. A old, simple 2V is about 300+VAT for small and no limit for big service. We also get less miles for that Also 7.5k service is surely not just oil change? Checking all the bolts if they are still there, inspecting brakes, suspension, head stock is what I would expect as minimum.
Perhaps the forum needs a section where we can list the service costs specifically from Ducati dealers then? May help others decide who to go to.
Not a good idea many people quote price of service as what they paid. However new chain, new pads, new discs and so on are not part of service.
So you've paid over 10k for Ducati, and now expect to pay only £100 for a service, get a life dude - life really is to short to stop worrying about piss pot shit like this...
I wonder what a garage would charge for a Honda C90 service, just to compare!! I cannot see the problemo myself, they go over it with a fine tooth comb, Seastarsuperbikes did anyway, checked all torques, chain, gave it the complete once over, and was charged bout £150, I happy to pay that, at least peeling into a blind corner in the wet I have a good feeling that the bike will get me round. Horses for courses really.
It's not piss pot sh1t if you haven't got pots of money to throw around. The cost of the bike is immaterial. £83.50 an hour is stupid amounts of money to charge when you consider that the local BMW car dealer charges £75 an hour and Ford £55. My Fireblade was £90 plus VAT for a minor service which this is and I dounbt any dealer will go over the bike with a fine toothed comb.
I for one like to see value for money. One of the less attractive issues of buying a spanking new shiny bike is that you are locked into dealer servicing, if you wish to maintain yr warranty/residual value. I love rubbing myself up against shiney new bikes.... But I also enjoy getting my spanners out and learning what makes these bikes tick tick boom. Right now the latter appeals more...:biggrin:
600 mile service today Just paid £151.94 for my first service today at Manchester Ducati. The did the coolant change while it was there. Price included a loan multistrada overnight to make it easier for me. This level of service is what I expect to be honest when you part with £16000.00 ! good service
As with cars, if you take your bike to a main dealer then you will pay stupid rates, local VW quoted £75 + VAT earlier this year when i had a problem on my car, found an specialist for half that. Same goes for bikes there are plenty of Ducati specialists about, or there are around my neck of the woods, i would never take it to a main dealer. Same as with cars aslong as they are VAT registered, use genuine parts and follw service regieme it does not void warranty. Only current problem is that the diagnostic computers most places use, dont yet have the software to get into ECU, but that is i am told coming very soon. My guys could not believe it when i told them it took 2 hours to change coolant this week !
LOL you're living in the world of modern Ducati's servicing has never been sho cheap! Try going back 10 years, maybe a few more to the 748/916 era you'd shudder with fear at the 6000 mile service intervals and expect to pay at least £600 let alone wait for the dreaded rockers to be buggered at £100 each and there's a stack of them to go wrong. I'm used to paying 4 figures so to see a service interval increased to 7500 and only 150 quid it's a bargain!!
Looking at the CBR1000RR owners manual it looks like you need a service at 600 miles, then minors at 4000 and majors at 8000, so you would have done a minor and nearly a major service before getting to a minor on your Multi? Somehow I think a Fireblade would be more to service given this info
Do we have anyone who can confirm about the warranty and using a VAT registered independent? As in had actual experience of it making a claim?
Tripletrouble, I know from experience in the motor trade (HGV) in the past I have fitted a genuine component to a truck ie Starter motor, and a few months later it has failed we returned the truck to the main dealer and they fitted a new one FOC because the one we fitted was less than a year old and therefore still under warranty. The truck was a few years old with 500k on the clock. I don't see why bikes are any different. The only potential problem with not having it serviced by a dealer, should there be any upgrades which are not safety related and therefore subject to a recall, these issues/upgrades are normally rectified at the time of service and you will not always know that they have been done. Should a claim be related to this they may not honour the claim. Years ago I had a problem with a Discovery, the timing belt snapped, the vehicle was still within the warranty period but it had been serviced by an independent dealer (vat registered). I asked Land Rover to cover the warranty, they refused not because it had been serviced by an independent but because they had identified a problem with the alignment with the timing gears which was not safety related. They stated that if the vehicle had been serviced by a main dealer they would have fitted the modified kit preventing any future failure. They stated that they would not normally inform the customer that his work had been carried out. I suppose that they would not want to advertise that they had identified a reliability issue. In theory they should honour warranty but is it worth taking a chance for a few quid?
A few points here. £60 per hour for a main dealer seems about right. About £30 for the engineers direct costs and the rest for overheads/ profit. If it's like anything else in the motortrade you get charged the book rate, not the actual time taken. Snell's have quoted me £300+vat for a 22500 mile service, (same as a 7500 mile), so now I'm going to shop around. Oh and my 998s once cost nearly 2k for a trip to he shop, ok it needed a new clutch, basket. Brakes etc...
