How Much Is A Normal Service?

Was in my local garage last week & asked how much he charged for a service(plugs,air/oil filter,oil),he quoted me £215!!!


Why is it so expensive,now I can buy the parts for about £50 & i'm sure an experience mechanic would do it in under 1hr!!!


Next time i'm doing the work myself,might even enjoy it

[Dave20046]

£130-£150 for the 15k (valve clearences) service round here. A lesser service would be a good deal less.

[Nobbylad]

Think I usually pay around £120 (incl. oil/filter/plugs etc).

15k (valve clearance) service was just on £200 I think.

Maybe its worth learning how to do some of the simpler things, like the oil change ant spark plug change - like you say, parts are cheap, and provided you have decent tools and work methodically and carefully, you'll get it completly right and save a packet

Where abouts do you live? If you live in / near london you could get your bike to spannerman (he's a member on here, Stewarts Motorcycles if you google) in the future, he does an excellent service and dosn't charge the earth

Originally Posted by Aquila

Was in my local garage last week & asked how much he charged for a service(plugs,air/oil filter,oil),he quoted me £215!!!


Why is it so expensive,now I can buy the parts for about £50 & i'm sure an experience mechanic would do it in under 1hr!!!


Next time i'm doing the work myself,might even enjoy it

If you're anywhere local to me, then you could get the bits and bring your bike over here and I'll help/show you to do it yourself.

[Dave20046]

Originally Posted by boot

If you're anywhere local to me, then you could get the bits and bring your bike over here and I'll help/show you to do it yourself.

I'll bring mine round on saturday

[Richie]

Originally Posted by boot

If you're anywhere local to me, then you could get the bits and bring your bike over here and I'll help/show you to do it yourself.

As he says, Aquila were abouts are you located?

Originally Posted by Nobbylad

Think I usually pay around £120 (incl. oil/filter/plugs etc).

15k (valve clearance) service was just on £200 I think.

WTF round hear they want £300+ for the valve check, mine was serviced at 14999 (exact lol) but no idea if they have been done or not, and i carntaford to have them done at that price

Originally Posted by barwel1992

WTF round hear they want £300+ for the valve check, mine was serviced at 14999 (exact lol) but no idea if they have been done or not, and i carntaford to have them done at that price

Same as here, I paid £345 for my 15000 service!!!

[5hort5]

I'm a total novice to mechanics and doing that service took me two hours (mainly due to the radiator and front plug fitting being a bit of a pain), cost for parts from wemoto:


Spark Plug NGK 2 @ 4.83 = £ 9.66
Rock Oil - Semi Synthetic - Per Litre 3 @ 5.77 = £ 17.31
Air Filter 1 @ 13.80 = £ 13.80
Oil Filter HiFlo 1 @ 8.33 = £ 8.33
Tool - Oil Filter Wrench For Hiflo Filter 1 @ 7.48 = £ 7.48
Sump Plug - Drain Ally Washer 1 @ 0.24 = £ 0.24

total £56.84

Fitting Free

Note, that oil wrench fits a 3/4 inch socket Ratchet which I didn't have so had to buy a convert for a fiver as well

Oh and it was kinda fun to do