Diagnostic Fee - Fair?

dipsomaniac

Grey_Critic said:

Diagnostic charges these days seem to be a rip-off.

Personally I think greed has taken over.

We agree on something grey_critic🙂

Some of us don't want to spend more than 10% of our salaries on a car so have to do our own repairs.  I have done that since I was 11 working on my motorbikes and not going to change now. It is not rocket science

Robbo66

Yes, Diag fee 1 hours labour, cost of sensor plus 1 hours labour. Diagnostics isn't simply a plug in and get a response, they will also test other systems that are connected as they could be the cause of the fault and the sensor itself could have been fine

Lets just agree to disagree as to the validity of diagnostic fees

Ibrahim5

Be better to agree not to talk codswallop.

motorguy

Ibrahim5 said:

Be better to agree not to talk codswallop.

We accept your offer not to.

dipsomaniac

Very clear divide in views between people in the trade/ex trade and the punter. Not surprised 

motorguy

dipsomaniac said:

Very clear divide in views between people in the trade/ex trade who understand how businesses work and the punter me. Not Nobody's surprised 

Edited for Accuracy.

dipsomaniac

Why are you editing people's posts? I fully understand how business work, that's why I am calling it out.  The diagnostic fee is a double charge. Why do some garages waive it if they get the business while others don't?

motorguy

dipsomaniac said:

Why are you editing people's posts? I fully understand how business work, that's why I am calling it out.  The diagnostic fee is a double charge. Why do some garages waive it if they get the business while others don't?

Just re-read peoples posts.  Theres nothing me or anyone else is going to say over and above that.

Move on.

Ibrahim5

I have never paid a main dealer for any work. Had a warranty repair where they broke my car. I use a couple of independents occasionally. One of them is good at suspension noises. My wife normally takes it in. They have done work for free. Otherwise they tell you a diagnosis and price for free. Normally just tell them to go ahead. I can only imagine that the main dealer prices are so high that people would just take them elsewhere so main  dealer's have to charge for everything.

Robbo66

dipsomaniac said:

Very clear divide in views between people in the trade/ex trade and the punter. Not surprised 

not in the trade and never have been but I do understand that a business needs to make money and not all diagnostic work takes 5 minutes and more often than not involves more that just checking for fault codes.

And with that I'm out