hello, new member here signed up because I am a bit sceptical about the amount a local mechanic has charge my father for a repair.
my father has a 2004 td6 range rover. recently i stumbled upon a repair bill and thought the mechanic may have taken advantage of my father. he has had problems with the injectors on his range rover for sometime now and still does even though the mechanic has charge him over £1400 without even replacing the injectors. worse thing is that the mechanic gave the car back to my father claiming to have fixed it!!!
repair bill is as follow -
diagnostic fee - £100
parts total - £760
which consisted of:
alternator drive belt
air con belt
vacuum pipes
fuel filter
radiator
osf door control module
door lock catch
injector pipes
labour - £550
strange thing is that he diagnosed the above but failed to notice that the car wasn't driving correctly and the injection fuel system error message light was appearing.
I have pulled him up on this and he claimed that he was not told to address this issue by my father! furthermore he failed to provide invoices for his work at the time, it was only after my father broke down in the car a few days after this chap returned the car that I asked my father what had the mechanic done and how much he had charged. alarmed by the amount and also by the way the car was driving I gave him a call and he reluctantly provided some invoices claiming that all parts used were genuine land rover.
I gave him a piece of my mind and said I would be in touch after I investigated his charged to see if they were reasonable.#
what do you guys make of this?
apologies for the long first post. your help is much appreciated.# thanks!
my father has a 2004 td6 range rover. recently i stumbled upon a repair bill and thought the mechanic may have taken advantage of my father. he has had problems with the injectors on his range rover for sometime now and still does even though the mechanic has charge him over £1400 without even replacing the injectors. worse thing is that the mechanic gave the car back to my father claiming to have fixed it!!!
repair bill is as follow -
diagnostic fee - £100
parts total - £760
which consisted of:
alternator drive belt
air con belt
vacuum pipes
fuel filter
radiator
osf door control module
door lock catch
injector pipes
labour - £550
strange thing is that he diagnosed the above but failed to notice that the car wasn't driving correctly and the injection fuel system error message light was appearing.
I have pulled him up on this and he claimed that he was not told to address this issue by my father! furthermore he failed to provide invoices for his work at the time, it was only after my father broke down in the car a few days after this chap returned the car that I asked my father what had the mechanic done and how much he had charged. alarmed by the amount and also by the way the car was driving I gave him a call and he reluctantly provided some invoices claiming that all parts used were genuine land rover.
I gave him a piece of my mind and said I would be in touch after I investigated his charged to see if they were reasonable.#
what do you guys make of this?
apologies for the long first post. your help is much appreciated.# thanks!