Dealer Service History - resale value

[GTMorgan]

Purchased my 2020 TE in March with full dealer history and 17000 miles, had an oil and filter service today at BMW for £220 at 21000 miles. This is the first time I've ever paid anyone to work on one of my bikes, I usually do everything myself, have been a Multistrada owner for a number of years. I plan on keeping this bike for 3 years, by which time it'll have 35-40000 miles on it, will I struggle to sell it with a fully documented DIY service history? By the way, I do know what I'm doing on bikes, will it hit the resale value massively?
I did struggle with my last Multistrada, which had 55000 miles on it, that maybe just a Ducati thing, you don't see too many with higher mileage.
Do any of you guys do DIY maintenance and find it hard to sell because of the lack of dealer history?

 

[Robbo1200ADV]

I guess as it gets older it will have less effect on resale . If out of warranty It May knock a bit off . Yours is 5 years old so buy the time you sell it will be 8 years old . By that time quite a lot of value has gone anyway these days . If you are good at servicing do it

 

[DJ123]

For most people, i'd say it's not an issue. So long as there are invoices/documents which can support the servicing has been done regularly and the right parts were used.

For my GS i do the interim oil/filter services, and put it into the dealer for the 12k service. However, i don't get them to do the brake fluid change nor final drive fluid as the cost of that vs materials and ease of doing it at home far outweighs it.

 

[littleade]

If you're selling private, then if you have all the receipts for the parts and take photos or a video to evidence the service has actually been done then you shouldn't have a problem.

 

[stever1]

I would think it’s the mileage, not the service history that puts folk off a 55000 mile Ducati

 

[GTMorgan]

I guess as it gets older it will have less effect on resale . If out of warranty It May knock a bit off . Yours is 5 years old so buy the time you sell it will be 8 years old . By that time quite a lot of value has gone anyway these days . If you are good at servicing do it

Yes, it'll be classed as an older bike to some, still pretty new to others, me included! I can see me spending as much, if not more, on servicing than I'll lose on resale to be honest.

I would think it’s the mileage, not the service history that puts folk off a 55000 mile Ducati

From what the potential buyers said, they would have been more inclined to buy it with a dealer history but, that would have cost a lot more than I lost, with Ducati Desmo service costs.

If you're selling private, then if you have all the receipts for the parts and take photos or a video to evidence the service has actually been done then you shouldn't have a problem.

That is my thinking, I would honestly much rather work on my bikes myself, just don't want to lose out massively because of it.

For most people, i'd say it's not an issue. So long as there are invoices/documents which can support the servicing has been done regularly and the right parts were used.

For my GS i do the interim oil/filter services, and put it into the dealer for the 12k service. However, i don't get them to do the brake fluid change nor final drive fluid as the cost of that vs materials and ease of doing it at home far outweighs it.

That's a good call to be fair, people who can't/don't do their own maintenance think of the valve check/adjust as some kind of impossible voodoo magic which only a fully trained dealer mechanic can perform.

 

[DJ123]

That's a good call to be fair, people who can't/don't do their own maintenance think of the valve check/adjust as some kind of impossible voodoo magic which only a fully trained dealer mechanic can perform.

For me, i simply CBA to do it! and faff around with it. It's a small cost for them to check, and in 40k miles they've only needed 1 adjustment.

 

[GTMorgan]

For me, i simply CBA to do it! and faff around with it. It's a small cost for them to check, and in 40k miles they've only needed 1 adjustment.

That wasn't a criticism of you not doing your valves by the way! Just my thinking that it's the one item most people would prefer to see done by the dealer.