Where to service Hybrid car?

Cisco001

Hi, all,
My toyota yaris comes to 2 years next month, and it is due to a service.
Is there any real different between servicing Hybrid car and petrol car?

Halfords calling it 'Hybrid car service' and charge £210. And I've seen my local garage charging £160 for service, but did not mention hybrid. 

And is there any comparison website which I could find the cost of servicing?
unfortunately, I don't know which local garage is good and all my friends who live near by either have no car or company car...

couriervanman

Well avoid Halfords & kwik fit for a start and get a price from toyota dealer and a local recommend independent garage 

nologo

If you get it serviced by a Toyota agent, they will do a free " hybrid health check ) this can extend your battery warranty up y to 15 years but costs £240 ISH (20k service)so more money,more  peice of mind.  Your choice 🙂

Cisco001

nologo said:

If you get it serviced by a Toyota agent, they will do a free " hybrid health check ) this can extend your battery warranty up y to 15 years but costs £240 ISH (20k service)so more money,more  peice of mind.  Your choice 🙂

i check my local toyota dealership, they want £295. It is a bit expensive when compare to local garage.

Jackmydad

Two year old motor, I'd be getting it serviced at the dealer.
No (or at least less) argument about any warranty claims.
Some likelihood of "good will" if anything goes wrong.
It's not like saving a few quid on a service makes a huge difference to the overall cost of running a car.

photome

I would also stick with the main dealer at that age as it still has 3 years warranty left on it, if you need the warranty its likely to be easier to get a resolution with full toyota history

tacpot12

£295 sounds like a rip-off to me. That is 2 to 3 hours labour. What can they do in that time to assess the health of the batteries and motor? I can guarantee that the service technician is not a chemist so they have no understanding of the chemistry of the battery. They will be relying on a computer that they plug in that has been programmed to assess the state of charge of the batteries vs. some forecast of their expected state of charge at their current age (my iPhone does this btw and I only paid £200 for the phone!).

The computer does need paying for, and this, along with the labour, might justify the charge, but I would want to see the manufacturer's evidence that monitoring can spot problems early and that early intervention can do something useful. There will be a technical report kicking around Toyota somewhere that says what sort of problems the monitoring can spot and whether early intervention works. Ask to see the report. Chances are it is in Japanese, and I've never tried to use Google Translate on a Japanese document so I've no idea if it would be useful.    

Jackmydad

I don't know if it's a rip off or not, but it seems to me that it's better to get a newish car serviced by somebody with all the gear and at least some idea, rather than somebody who's got an unknown amount of gear and idea.
I don't like paying more than I have to any more than anyone else incidentally.
Sometimes though you have to bite the bullet and pay.

KimJongUn88

If the lowest price only matters to you, just go to your local back street garage and pay £160 then. Why are you asking for advice on here?

daveyjp

£295 is the price of a major service on a Yaris, hybrid or not.

Cisco001

KimJongUn88 said:

If the lowest price only matters to you, just go to your local back street garage and pay £160 then. Why are you asking for advice on here?

Because I get the price from garage by just entering car reg.

The price is exactly the same as 1.5 non hybrid car.

I wonder if hybrid car have some other check require or work differently than ordinary petrol car. I.e, they are much more expensive at dealership or Halfords.

I basicly don't know what I am looking at.