Service Pricing - brakes, geo,wiper blades, battery

I picked up the latest 996 Service Pricing list (07/06). Sevice prices have gone up slightly. However, Porsche now list prices for certain consumables, e.g.: front pads, front discs/pads, rear pads, rear discs/pads. They also list the prices for geometry check/adjustment. The prices for wipers/battery are: wiper blades - £42 battery - £230 The price list doesn't specify what else you get for these prices!.

Does it say prices valid at services only (i.e. while the car is up on the ramp and service time allocated); I have been quoted two different prices for brake and pads change depending on whether I get it done during service time or book a separate slot. PS: Think this is worthy of being outside the chat room, as it is Porsche related after all...

You're right - it says 'Prices are only valid in conjunction with a service'. Quite how you're meant to guess that your battery is about to give up is beyond me.

...well, they tell you while your car is in service: the idea being you worry about driving a fantastic sports car; they will sort out the maintenance and charge you for it.

And how! £42 for wipers!!! (and I suppose vat gets added) - a job which you can do in 5 mins for around a tenner! Do the technicians wear a mask and ride a horse to work as well??[ ]

It is a good business to be in; we enthusiast are a very small minority for the OPCs who bring their own oil, buy and change their own wipers... majority leave the car at the OPC and pay whatever is quoted as that is something they believe is the price they pay for the Porsche ownership...

I put the OPC Service Menu Pricing here http://www.porscheclubgbforum.com/tm.asp?m=230826 for those who haven't found it yet. Some of these prices are outrageous, and can anyone tell me why a geometry setup on a GT3 is cheaper than a bog C2, when there are more settings on a GT3??

Having had the pads and disks replaced on my C2 a year or so ago I thought it would be interesting to compare costs with what I paid through a specialist independent (both inc VAT) OPC price list £1300 Hartech £ 693.25 Better still for me now is that being on Hartech's Lifetime Maintenance plan this would be even less next time round because I would only pay for parts not labour! You have to seriously question whether it's worth paying the extra for OPC for jobs like this.

THX911, You mentioned supplying your own oil ... do you supply you own oil to the local OPC, so that they dont charge you the £1**.00 + VAT for their own? And how do they react to this??? Thanks, Jason

I tried to supply my own oil with Audi and they really got the hump... said "we can only guarantee oil supplied buy ourselves...... bla bla... give us your Visa card"

I get mine from Costco, think £23 for 4 litres or this time round got it from France (Le Mans trip); was something like 26 Euros for 5litres. I ring the OPC to book for service and state that I will be supplying my own oil. It is not like I give them a choice or ask if I can supply my own oil... Some £120+ disappears from my service invoice. [8D] Though, that did not stop them from putting a small 1litre bottle on my invoice which I had them removed as from the 2 x 5litres you get enough back (they are good at giving this back to you) for top-ups to keep you going for another year. If they refuse, then just say you will take your business to another OPC (easy for me to say as I am in London). Doing less than 9K on a pre-2004 model? Go for the annual check in place of the minor service; get the stamp then get the oil, oil filter and pollen filter changed at an independent, keep the receipts for your record and for resell. That is the difference between a minor service and an annual check service.