I'm currently doing my sums whilst considering a move to the Geneva area. Can anyone give me a rough estimate of the cost for an annual service for an average family car, say a 2 litre estate car?
An idea of any other car related costs would be much appreciated as well (I have insurance costs from comparis).
Thanks
Andy
Have you found a flat and a car park then? Maybe this is more practical, http://www.mobility.ch/en/pub/index.cfm
-change oil
-winter tires mounted (my own)
-replaced a temperature sensor
842 chf
They found some stuff that I need to have work on, but for that I will be making an appointment at a VW garage in Germany
-oil/ oilfilter change
-winter tyres mounted and balanced
-pollenfilter replaced
-liquids refilled (breaks, wiper)
-new rear wiper blade
-new battery
Costs were 200€ which I find a very good price.
I have a Renault Megane 2 (2008) petrol engine.
This autumn I had to do the "big" maintenance (changing the distribution belt, etc.).
I went to 3 different Renault garages in my area and the price quot. I got for this maintenance was aprox. 2500 CHF.
Then I went to France (Annecy) @ the biggest Renault garage I could find in this area and they did the service for only 910 Euro. I had to leave the car for 3 days but they gave me a replacement car at a very convenient rate.
Here is the list of the operations within the maintenance in France:
- oil change
- oil filter replacement
- air filter replacement
- cabin filter replacement
- distribution belt replacement (including rollers)
- accesories belt replacement
- sparking plugs replacement
- cooling liquid level adjustment
- general inspection (direction, exhaust, etc.)
More or less, the cost of car service depends on 2 things:
1. the country you choose to do the service in (if it's France/Germany, it's almost half of the cost in Switzerland.)
2. the garage you're choosing (it might be a little expensive at the dealer but at least they offer warranty, they are very professional and they are doing the same operations day by day so they will know exactly what needs to be done).
We put in our Peugot 407SW in it's 100k maintenance, and they charged us over 100CHF just for windshield wipers blades. Next time we're buying all the parts ourselves.
However, I just had my car serviced (small service) at Euromaster in Hardbrucke... and as long as you don't buy your tyres from them, I fully recommend them. Service was just over 200chf (for an aging Audi S4), including fluids. I then had to have couple of other things done later for the MFK inc exhaust weld (very surprised the garage didn't attempt to get me to replace it instead) and full engine/underbody clean, 205chf..... not bad by anybody's standards I think.
Full service, (plugs,oil,filters etc) the works for 600 Chf.
This includes a a rental car for the day,so not to bad.
Its still under warrantee as we only bought it in May this year, so all parts that need replacement is going to be on the garage ill milk them for as long as i can
But all by all good garage, without the rental car for one day, it would be in the 450 Chf region.
Our trying to save money was way more inconvenient and more costly, since hubby had to leave work early to pick up the kids. I hate the local volvo dealer with a passion and we had them not finding a known suspension fault until after the warranty was up. Another dealer in Zurich said that there was no way the fault could have happened in the last year because we drove so little that year. The also charged us once for changing 6 wheels