How much does your Seat charge per hour?

[sixsr]

I went into the newly opened Seat dealership in Aberdeen and was very surprised when I was told that their hourly rate is £65 & VAT per hour!

Thought that was the kind of money the likes of Mercedes or BMW dealers could away with charging.

 

[Fl@pper]

hourly rate is £65 & VAT per hour!

Thought that was the kind of money the likes of Mercedes or BMW dealers could away with charging.

local bmw here is £95 per hour service and £125 for diagnostic work

both local vauxhall specialist and a seperate vw/audi one are £55 per hour

so i'd say £65 main dealer isnt bad

 

[sixsr]

I suppose its not too bad, they must all be making a fortune.

 

[truCido]

£75 + vat here

 

[sixsr]

£75 + vat here

I think I've used to using the country VW Dealership that only charges £35 + VAT. Got to be worth a 30 mile drive for those kind of savings.

 

[dannyk]

They only time i'd ever take my car to the dealer is for warrenty work, i take mine to Victoria Garage just near me in balmedie, i'm sure he charges £27 an hour, canny mind if thats vat inclusive tho.

BTW have they got a Leon Cupra there? i fancy a test drive.

Cheers

Danny

 

[sixsr]

They only time i'd ever take my car to the dealer is for warrenty work, i take mine to Victoria Garage just near me in balmedie, i'm sure he charges £27 an hour, canny mind if thats vat inclusive tho.

BTW have they got a Leon Cupra there? i fancy a test drive.

Cheers

Danny

Thats pretty good value, I think they did have a Leon Cupra Demonstator outside in black.

 

[m0rk]

I suppose its not too bad, they must all be making a fortune.

Think about it, the wages for the tech that will be doing your car is say £12/hr, but the standard 'cost to company' for an employee is 2.5x the wage paid, so we're up to £30/hr, add on overheads, cost of the building, insurances, loan cars and you're not far off.

I bet there's even a little profit in there too.

 

[andyj]

my local dealer quoted me £46 inc. vat for the labour to change my front wheel bearing.... reckon it's an hours work at least, until they fecked up the hub carrier pressing out the old bearing

 

[Tom B]

We charge £55-63+VAT an hour, depending on the car. We are the cheapest main dealer in Northampton, but then again we're Kia!

Northampton BMW by comparison charge £100+VAT an hour, and get it as London dealers are over £150+VAT/hour!

 

[Jonny]

I had my 10k service done at a Seat Specialist.

0.9 hours labour = £35.91
Parts = £8.15
Fully synthetic oil = £29.70
VAT = £12.91

Total Paid = £86.67

For a 10k service at a main dealer I was quoted £220 + an additional £35 for fully synthetic oil!

So working it backwards:

£255 - £86.67 = £168.33

I would assume that as the parts are the same & are standard prices, the additional £168.33 is for less than an hour's labour - bearing in mind the labour charge is already included in the Seat Specialists price!!!

The way I see it, as far as main dealer servicing goes you're paying over £200 per hour for labour!!

 

[andycupra]

thats not bad.

the VW garage thats here was charging £95 + vat per hour 5 over 4 years ago...