Cut a long story short, dads new 5 Series only has 5k miles on it, and his dash showed that he was due an Oil service in 1400 miles. Fine he thought.....
Next day it flashes up oil service due in 600 miles!??!!? after only having done 19 miles the previous day. Next day it flashes up OIL SERVICE NOW DUE?!?!?
So he phones up BMW Service dept, and they say "oh yeah thats right.....an oil change is all that is...........thats erm £160 plus VAT"
£160 FOR AN OIL CHANGE ???????
Needless to say he went loopy, not to mention the fact his ecu has a mind of its own counting down 1400 miles for a due oil change, in the space of two days!, so they said they would take a look at that too.
He refused to book it in and pay £160+ vat (£188) for a sole oil change and reset the service light though, and asked them to explain the breakdown of the cost......
1 x Hours Labour @ £65 + VAT
1 x Supply Oil and New filter £95 + VAT
Now maybe i am stupid, but what oil costs £95 ????? Unless they are extracting it, shipping it and refining the 6 litres themselves then thats a bloody scandalous price.
He has asked them to justify that and they cant, they are stumped and they know they are...........so they are going to see if they can "reduce it slightly seeing as he bought the car there"
The funny thing is that the cars only done 1600 miles since he got it, and it had an oil service then too..........as it was a demonstrator with 3400 on the clock!!! So whats this cr@p all about ??? The car is only 7 months old.
Talk about trying to fleece folk for everything !
Surely thats not right is it ? £160 plus vat for just an oil change ! Even Mitsubishi werent that expensive when i had my Evo 6 and that HAD to be done every 3k !!