Early warning that this is a longer post, so please bear with me.
My 2009 C4S is still in warranty so servicing by OPC seems natural and as it is relatively local, it got my vote back in January. Further, as the crap Porsche battery failed, the car had been already dragged off to the OPC to have that attended to, so for convenience, that's where it stayed.
At 40k+ Miles the major service was supplemented with new brake fluid and sparkplugs, although I wasn't advised in advance, so the expected £495 plus VAT was considerably outstripped, by over 70%. Perhaps that is nothing new to most readers and I am being naive.
What surprised me a little more was the extensive list of further recommended actions, 'amber ticks' in the standard report. I say 'surprised' as these each appeared to be significant and potentially serious items, none of which was even whispered when I bought the car from same OPC, 2 years and 5k miles previously. I was initially advised of these items, all non-warranty of course, by telephone and then chose to meet and discuss face-to-face.
At £2,850 total we discussed each of the proposed work items in turn and I was advised that action, while not urgent, was recommended. When I mentioned a possible European trip, the service manager became more overt, suggesting action. As none of the items were MOT notifications we agreed to leave it until the summer and revisit subject to my EU trip. He knows my intended annual mileage, 3 to 4K and his last words were that with only 4mm of tread on some tyres that I should look at replacement 'very imminently'. These are not in the £2,850 figure.
So now that it's August, I can't say 'Summer' by the look of current weather, I thought that I'd give my local Indy a call to review the jobs. Being busy folks, they offered to take the report and meet to review the car the following week.
So, Tuesday morning after the car was an hour up in the air on the ramps the mechanic invited me to see what he had done - reviewed, wiped and/ or applied a little lube or waxoyl to some underbody exposed items. In summary nothing needed any attention. The service manager wrote up his report on the 6 or so offending items saying that by MOT time, Jan18, the items under review will get another look, but that the chance of any action needed by then would be, in his and mechanics opinion, very unlikely.
So a bill for £50 for time spent assessing OPC instigated potential actions; actual work needed now or likely in the next 6 to 12 months; zero.
Moral - stick with those Indys well reviewed by 911uk.com members.
My 2009 C4S is still in warranty so servicing by OPC seems natural and as it is relatively local, it got my vote back in January. Further, as the crap Porsche battery failed, the car had been already dragged off to the OPC to have that attended to, so for convenience, that's where it stayed.
At 40k+ Miles the major service was supplemented with new brake fluid and sparkplugs, although I wasn't advised in advance, so the expected £495 plus VAT was considerably outstripped, by over 70%. Perhaps that is nothing new to most readers and I am being naive.
What surprised me a little more was the extensive list of further recommended actions, 'amber ticks' in the standard report. I say 'surprised' as these each appeared to be significant and potentially serious items, none of which was even whispered when I bought the car from same OPC, 2 years and 5k miles previously. I was initially advised of these items, all non-warranty of course, by telephone and then chose to meet and discuss face-to-face.
At £2,850 total we discussed each of the proposed work items in turn and I was advised that action, while not urgent, was recommended. When I mentioned a possible European trip, the service manager became more overt, suggesting action. As none of the items were MOT notifications we agreed to leave it until the summer and revisit subject to my EU trip. He knows my intended annual mileage, 3 to 4K and his last words were that with only 4mm of tread on some tyres that I should look at replacement 'very imminently'. These are not in the £2,850 figure.
So now that it's August, I can't say 'Summer' by the look of current weather, I thought that I'd give my local Indy a call to review the jobs. Being busy folks, they offered to take the report and meet to review the car the following week.
So, Tuesday morning after the car was an hour up in the air on the ramps the mechanic invited me to see what he had done - reviewed, wiped and/ or applied a little lube or waxoyl to some underbody exposed items. In summary nothing needed any attention. The service manager wrote up his report on the 6 or so offending items saying that by MOT time, Jan18, the items under review will get another look, but that the chance of any action needed by then would be, in his and mechanics opinion, very unlikely.
So a bill for £50 for time spent assessing OPC instigated potential actions; actual work needed now or likely in the next 6 to 12 months; zero.
Moral - stick with those Indys well reviewed by 911uk.com members.