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  1. 22nd December 2012, 06:32 AM #11
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    My dad went to buy a defender and they wanted £1500 delivery charge for the car to be shipped from land Rover to the dealer in Southampton. As my dad used to drive around he country he went to the dealer by the land rover factory. Thinking the shipping would be less. But no they still wanted £1500. He was amazed as try just travel across the road for that.

    So he went back to the Southampton dealer to buy it as at least he thought they would have to ship it 3 hours down the road.
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  2. 22nd December 2012, 09:59 AM #12
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    Charged to change the sparkplugs in a td5.

    I may still have the reciept. I think I did a write up about it.
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  3. 22nd December 2012, 10:13 AM #13
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    2 new air-shocks on the front of my S-Class: $6,500 from BEA (Main Mercedes dealers).

    Car was luckily under warranty (from another dealer) but I thought that was a tad steep.

    I've bought some quite good cars for less than that!
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  4. 22nd December 2012, 11:46 AM #14
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    We got charged $10 to have a light globe swaped out during a service on Thursday
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  5. 22nd December 2012, 11:53 AM #15
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    Quote Originally Posted by 3toes View Post
    and the temperature had not risen above minus 10 deg C for a week,
    Yeah. Ahhh, doesn't happen a lot in Queensland.
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  6. 22nd December 2012, 12:03 PM #16
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    Quote Originally Posted by jboot51 View Post
    Back in '97 when my 130 was still under warranty the LR Stealers were charging $15 to top up the windscreen washer bottle during a regular service. They got away with it once, next time I made sure it was full before taking it in. Charge me again, we argued, they wouldn't back down, took my business elsewhere.
    But what was that stuff? Gee it smelt good when I washed the windscreen on my then new Disco 1....... Land Rover stopped using it after the BMW takeover.

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  7. 22nd December 2012, 12:19 PM #17
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    We got charged $10 to have a light globe swaped out during a service on Thursday
    I paid $15.00 for indicator bulb in Bullbar 2 weeks ago.

    Not too upset really.

    They usually use quality bulbs so they are around $7-8.00 and then at $90.00 an hour (cheap for dealer) 5 minutes to change.... $7.50

    So $15.00 not bad as they had to drop the bottom off the bullbar to get to it
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  8. 22nd December 2012, 12:43 PM #18
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    But what was that stuff? Gee it smelt good when I washed the windscreen on my then new Disco 1....... Land Rover stopped using it after the BMW takeover.

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  9. 22nd December 2012, 12:51 PM #19
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  10. 22nd December 2012, 01:31 PM #20
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    Worst charge was the pre delivery service that failed to grease any of the underside mechanicals as required by the book. Was done by a friend on first service.
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