Kwik Fit hard sell?

OddballJamie

It's a shame we don't know what the car is, for all we know £600 could be about right. My last cars brakes were silly prices, just the front discs without fitting were £135, it was only a 307!

jc292

FYI it is a Peugeot 308, 2008.

Had it a year, bought from a Honda dealership where I guess it was part ex. Never had a problem and MOTed about 5 months ago (at the local garage I mentioned) and passed fine.

Will see what they say when I take it there on Friday.

goonarmy

OddballJamie wrote: »

Oh company car, that explains it. Thought you were loaded taking a car for an MOT there with a known fail item.

Isn't three years normally change over on company cars? Get them to sort you out with a new one.

Ours now have minmum milage of 80k. Used to be three years then four now milage. 58 plate so its had one already-mot that is.

OddballJamie

jc292 wrote: »

FYI it is a Peugeot 308, 2008.

Had it a year, bought from a Honda dealership where I guess it was part ex. Never had a problem and MOTed about 5 months ago (at the local garage I mentioned) and passed fine.

Will see what they say when I take it there on Friday.

A Honda dealer will charge the earth to do an easy job like brakes. Do you not know a local garge that you trust or can friends/family recommend one?

OddballJamie

goonarmy wrote: »

Ours now have minmum milage of 80k. Used to be three years then four now milage. 58 plate so its had one already-mot that is.

Hopefully it was it's third MOT not the second. I've not long had the first one on my 60 plate.

Kwikfit_company_representative

Hi there,

We'd like to look into this for you. Can you please e-mail customer.service@kwik-fit.com with your vehicle registration number please.

Kind regards,
Kwik Fit Customer Service

Steve059

Kwikfit_company_representative wrote: »

Hi there,

We'd like to look into this for you. Can you please e-mail [EMAIL="customer.service@kwik-fit.com"]customer.service@kwik-fit.com[/EMAIL] with your vehicle registration number please.

Kind regards,
Kwik Fit Customer Service

PS. You need new tyres, shock absorbers, exhaust, brake discs and pads, etc., etc., etc.

Prothet_of_Doom

Kwikfit_company_representative wrote: »

Hi there,

We'd like to look into this for you. Can you please e-mail [EMAIL="customer.service@kwik-fit.com"]customer.service@kwik-fit.com[/EMAIL] with your vehicle registration number please.

Kind regards,
Kwik Fit Customer Service

The car was a 308 - Pads for the front are less than £20.

http://www.gsfcarparts.com/parts/braking/brake-discs-pads

Oh wait it's not a ferrari - Puegeot parts are more expensive

£30 for Front pads

http://www.gsfcarparts.com/parts/service-parts/brake-discs-pads/brake-pad-set

and a bit more than £100 for 2 front discs, plus an hour labour MAX!!!!!! Call it £170 is the worse case price if the car is a 2.0HDI 140 PS hatch

http://www.gsfcarparts.com/parts/braking/brake-discs-pads/brake-disc

If you truely want a good reputation, you'd be under-cutting the independent by 20% and using better parts cause you'd have a better buying power, rather than letting your managers screw the unwary.

OddballJamie

Prothet_of_Doom wrote: »

The car was a 308 - Pads for the front are less than £20.

http://www.gsfcarparts.com/parts/braking/brake-discs-pads

Oh wait it's not a ferrari - Puegeot parts are more expensive

£30 for Front pads

http://www.gsfcarparts.com/parts/service-parts/brake-discs-pads/brake-pad-set

and a bit more than £100 for 2 front discs, plus an hour labour MAX!!!!!! Call it £170 is the worse case price if the car is a 2.0HDI 140 PS hatch

http://www.gsfcarparts.com/parts/braking/brake-discs-pads/brake-disc

If you truely want a good reputation, you'd be under-cutting the independent by 20% and using better parts cause you'd have a better buying power, rather than letting your managers screw the unwary.

Although the main bulk of it (£310) was for the rear brakes which for the 140ps are £93 each disc from GSF, then you've got pads and labour on top. All depends on the model.

ukjoel

pstuart wrote: »

How they continue to get fleet contracts (apart from their sheer size) is totally beyond me.

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They have national coverage and nobody else has that. They also get paid far less for the national contracts, but it justifies them opening up.
Fleet and leasing are more likely to ask for bits to be kept for follow up inspection so it keeps them clean. They also do mystery shops and follow up audits as well where they suspect their is abuse.

The big difference is that big lease companies also share info on number of repairs per vehicle in and when you are pulling out that volume of information the sites that are trying it on show up very quickly and then guess who gets targeted with audits and mystery shops.

Appreciate not much of the above helps the poor retail customer though.