First service cost... Ouch!

I paid £110 as I bought it from them, otherwise its £120. Got a loan bike, chain tightened, lubed and cleaned. As was the bike. A fair price since mine has no garage or running water, it saved me 3 hours...which with parts makes me about even. Happy
 
Well I phoned the next closest honda dealer to me, and they said £115, so I'm currently sat in their shop as my bike gets its service!.. Just in time for my freezing cold 5 hour round trip down to Hilltop it on Saturday morning (forecast says -2!)..
 
First service on my Harley Fat Boy done last week, bike has covered 1K miles, I was quoted £315, they discounted it to £285.73 which included collecting and returning the bike...
 
Hi

I changed to a Triumph Tiger 800XCX and they only charged me for the Oil and filter with the labour for free.

Derek
 
£120 at NW Honda at Morecambe, done this morning. Plus another £20 for them to ACF 50 it, I get the rest of the tin. Very impressed with the set up. Nice bunch of guys. It isn't my closest dealer by a long way but a nice ride across. (And they have a 20-40% sale on so got some summer gloves for £30....VERY nearly got a nice Alpinestars goretex suit with 20% off)
 
Do you guys never think ... just before you sign the purchase agreement for your bikes yo say ; " I just need one more thing ...."


No matter how keen the deal you negotiate ...
The dealers never would lose a sale over this small request.:blast

Don't let excitement of teh new bike purchase diminish your powers of thought.
 
Back in the 1990s I commuted on a weekly basis. Traffic got so bad I looked at going back to bikes. Choice was BMW 1150 in GS or RT flavour or a Honda VFR or Pan Euro.
Honda had closer service intervals at higher costs and at my expected mileage an annual £500 bill to have the valve clearances looked at.
Oh don’t worry they never need adjustment.

At that the whole idea got canned because Mrs thought I’d kill myself. It wasn’t worth the aggro to continue.
My point -
Check the likely service costs. The BMW was considerably better than Honda. Topped off with a pointless valve check Honda put themselves out.
A few years later I was on a Yamaha Diversion 900. Not a glamorous bike but valve clearance did not need adjustment until 70K miles.
 
I've got no intention of doing valve checks until around 50,000 miles. Just do regular oil and filter changes.
 
Got my first service free, just paid for annual @5k (£160) to keep warranty happy
It’s 2 years old in may and won’t see a Honda workshop ever again ;) 16k valve check everyone on AT forum that’s done this hasn’t needed any adjustment.
 
GFV Question

I'm assuming quite a few of you guys took advantage of the PCP deal, I know that Warlord did, so what impact will no dealer servicing have on the GFV. I naturally assumed that part of the stipulation would be that the bike had to be dealer serviced during the PCP period. After all , if you walked in to a Honda dealer and 2 secondhand bikes were the same price and mileage but one had no dealer history you'd expect a big discount or you'd buy the one with the history . This would be even more of a concern if it was a BMW.

So do you have to take it to a dealer and if you don't is their a big impact on GFV?

An hours labour and £50 retail in parts seems more than fair . So £110 -£150 seems fair.
 
Charles Martel said:
Do you guys never think ... just before you sign the purchase agreement for your bikes yo say ; " I just need one more thing ...."


No matter how keen the deal you negotiate ...
The dealers never would lose a sale over this small request.:blast

Don't let excitement of teh new bike purchase diminish your powers of thought.
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It's a good suggestion and one that some purchases should try but there is always a point where the salesmen or dealer will so no. So , yes, a dealer could/would prefer to so no and lose a sales over this 'small request'.

Quite a few of these guys have bought an £11k bike for what it cost the dealer AND got it on % interest fFREE with NO deposit and the guarantee of a very good trade in value in 3yrs time . The deal really doesn't get any better than that and if you asked him for a FREE service too I think he'd be quite within his rights to tell you , very politely , to go do one. There is always a point where the dealer will say NO?
 
Dazzle said:
Got my first service free, just paid for annual @5k (£160) to keep warranty happy
It’s 2 years old in may and won’t see a Honda workshop ever again ;) 16k valve check everyone on AT forum that’s done this hasn’t needed any adjustment.
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Mine is bucket and shims on the inlet and regular tappets on the exhaust side. I had my big dealer service done at my local Honda earlier this year and all the inlets were fine but 3 of the exhaust valves benefited from adjustment. I personally would have thought that it's best to have them checked early in the bikes life and then you could probably leave them a lot longer the next time ?? I'm not sure if that logic is correct or not ?
 
Rushy said:
I'm assuming quite a few of you guys took advantage of the PCP deal, I know that Warlord did, so what impact will no dealer servicing have on the GFV. I naturally assumed that part of the stipulation would be that the bike had to be dealer serviced during the PCP period. After all , if you walked in to a Honda dealer and 2 secondhand bikes were the same price and mileage but one had no dealer history you'd expect a big discount or you'd buy the one with the history . This would be even more of a concern if it was a BMW.

So do you have to take it to a dealer and if you don't is their a big impact on GFV?

An hours labour and £50 retail in parts seems more than fair . So £110 -£150 seems fair.
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You are in the lap of the gods with their valuation if you take the bike back without a Honda stamp in the book. Wrong but true. (I just sold a 7.5 yr old 110k mile Toyota Yaris and the first question asked was about dealer service history..for a £2k car)

Rushy said:
It's a good suggestion and one that some purchases should try but there is always a point where the salesmen or dealer will so no. So , yes, a dealer could/would prefer to so no and lose a sales over this 'small request'.

Quite a few of these guys have bought an £11k bike for what it cost the dealer AND got it on % interest fFREE with NO deposit and the guarantee of a very good trade in value in 3yrs time . The deal really doesn't get any better than that and if you asked him for a FREE service too I think he'd be quite within his rights to tell you , very politely , to go do one. There is always a point where the dealer will say NO?
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Having been to 3 dealers who couldn't get within £1500 of the deal offered in Suffolk and who all said 'He's selling below cost, how thew f### is he doing that?' I knew that asking the question at the place where I got a matched deal (£3k off, 0 deposit, 0% finance) would be laughed at.
I was quite happy with paying for the service. The same people who quibble over a few quid servicing a new bike will bemoan the fact that another local dealer has gone tits up.
 
Even tho it's on a pcp there is no obligation to have Honda service the bike, you can take it to whoever you like as long as OE parts are used .
 
Dazzle said:
Got my first service free, just paid for annual @5k (£160) to keep warranty happy
It’s 2 years old in may and won’t see a Honda workshop ever again ;) 16k valve check everyone on AT forum that’s done this hasn’t needed any adjustment.
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So are you basically just gonna be doing oil and filter changes with the occasional brake fluid change?
 
Charles Martel said:
Agree ... I actually find it hard to understand... that someone would be that excited about placing their order that they are too timid to assert this .....
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I actually find it hard to understand how somebody could sound so condescending . In both of your posts you make it sound like you are of superior intellect in negotiating a free service when some people clearly didn't, but every deal is different . Perhaps these bods got a much better overall cost to change deal than you or maybe some FREE Kit thrown in or perhaps even both. :nenau
 
Charles Martel said:
Agree ... I actually find it hard to understand... that someone would be that excited about placing their order that they are too timid to assert this .....
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Charles, stop being a twat.

The dealer I bought mine off was 100 miles away. I've got absolutely no intention of ever seeing them again.

Why would I ride 200+ mile round trip (scenic route so it isnt tiresome) just to get a free service that I did myself for £50.

The dealer paid £3200 off my bike. Full tank of fuel and 12 months road tax.

So no... I didn't ask for a free service, because they had done enough already.

So shut up.
 
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