As Renault advised you that the key would work I feel that the coding cost is unwarranted, so I'd be pushing back with the Service Manager and kicking up a fuss with Alpine/Renault head office. It annoys me that Arnold Clark always tries to wring out those extra ££ come service time - Fuel treatment certainly not needed on a 2 yr old car if it's been run on quality 99 fuel (momentum et-al), or at most £6 for a bottle to DIY. Same goes for the Aircon treatment, it's £3.60 for an Aircon Bomb (from Euro Car Parts) and takes less than 10 minutes. Unfortunately for us North of the Border, Alpine can only be found at either the Arnold Shark franchise in Glasgow or John Clark Motor Group in Aberdeen, neither of which I'd choose to visit.
You're right, comes down to my own laziness that I still have the effectively useless key. Only ever run the car on E5 as it's worth the extra money. Wasn't going to miss those small amounts but you're correct that they can add up. 2 dealers doesn't give a huge choice and realistically Aberdeen is too far for me. In fairness to Arnold Clark the service I've had from them I've not had much to complain about although I do still think being charged for the key was a foul.
Shame about the windscreen occurrence. I have the year-6 service coming-up on my 2018 PE, but I'll be doing the service myself. I won't be change the spark plugs as the car will only have done around 26k miles and I drive my car very gently and rarely push it at all. An experienced mechanic told me that you don't need to touch the iridium spark plugs with such low miles and especially if you don't drive the car hard, so only after say 50k miles. An Alpine dealer let me down at the year 5 service (didn't tighten-up a jubilee clip on the large grey hose near the bulkhead, and even after asking in advance twice they failed to stamp the service book, and expected me to pay for return post to them to get it done as I lived 100 miles away from the garage), and the value of the car is now at around £35k so doesn't merit paying through the nose for Alpine to do it as its lost £10k in value in 18 months. Its a Renault Megane RS engine at the end of the day, so I refuse to pay £100 to £150/hr labour charge to work on this car when I can do the oil, oil filter and air filter change myself
Certainly worthwhile if you can do bits yourself. The windscreen was unfortunate especially given the car had done less than 700 miles. Could certainly have been worse though. Fingers crossed I've only had positive if somewhat pricey experiences so far
I looked at the Alpine and decided I'd just hang on to my f type,if you remove the price of two tyres and the cost of the excess for the damaged screen then that's around £500 , which puts your service at around £700 which I think is a little high, certainly compared to what I pay for mine,£90 to replace a tyre valve is day light robbery I would of made a fuss about that. Still a nice car all the same.
Yeah £407 for the service and around 180 go the tyres. To be fair there is a disparity in costs because the Alpine dealers are sometimes located within Arnold Clark, John Clark etc. Cheaper than a Porsche at least lol. Do like the F type too
Hello and welcome back or indeed welcome. Here's the follow up to the second year service and fuel pump recall video from a week ago. Having been away there was a bit of a delay in posting the second part. Unfortunately picked up a cracked windscreen on the courtesy car as well which I could certainly have done without lol. Wanted to post a video giving an idea of some of the costs involved but have to say the overall experience has been a good one from a customer service perspective. Thanks for watching and please leave a comment and like or subscribe, it would mean a lot.
@@LindsayMacrae-n4s yeah wasn't great for some of the bits. On PCP there isn't the option to take it anywhere else, there's options for an independent once it's paid for but they'll probably still need to go through Alpine for most of the parts. The key coding was the one that stuck in my throat the most.
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As Renault advised you that the key would work I feel that the coding cost is unwarranted, so I'd be pushing back with the Service Manager and kicking up a fuss with Alpine/Renault head office. It annoys me that Arnold Clark always tries to wring out those extra ££ come service time - Fuel treatment certainly not needed on a 2 yr old car if it's been run on quality 99 fuel (momentum et-al), or at most £6 for a bottle to DIY. Same goes for the Aircon treatment, it's £3.60 for an Aircon Bomb (from Euro Car Parts) and takes less than 10 minutes. Unfortunately for us North of the Border, Alpine can only be found at either the Arnold Shark franchise in Glasgow or John Clark Motor Group in Aberdeen, neither of which I'd choose to visit.
You're right, comes down to my own laziness that I still have the effectively useless key.
Only ever run the car on E5 as it's worth the extra money. Wasn't going to miss those small amounts but you're correct that they can add up.
2 dealers doesn't give a huge choice and realistically Aberdeen is too far for me. In fairness to Arnold Clark the service I've had from them I've not had much to complain about although I do still think being charged for the key was a foul.
Shame about the windscreen occurrence. I have the year-6 service coming-up on my 2018 PE, but I'll be doing the service myself. I won't be change the spark plugs as the car will only have done around 26k miles and I drive my car very gently and rarely push it at all. An experienced mechanic told me that you don't need to touch the iridium spark plugs with such low miles and especially if you don't drive the car hard, so only after say 50k miles. An Alpine dealer let me down at the year 5 service (didn't tighten-up a jubilee clip on the large grey hose near the bulkhead, and even after asking in advance twice they failed to stamp the service book, and expected me to pay for return post to them to get it done as I lived 100 miles away from the garage), and the value of the car is now at around £35k so doesn't merit paying through the nose for Alpine to do it as its lost £10k in value in 18 months. Its a Renault Megane RS engine at the end of the day, so I refuse to pay £100 to £150/hr labour charge to work on this car when I can do the oil, oil filter and air filter change myself
Certainly worthwhile if you can do bits yourself. The windscreen was unfortunate especially given the car had done less than 700 miles. Could certainly have been worse though. Fingers crossed I've only had positive if somewhat pricey experiences so far
I looked at the Alpine and decided I'd just hang on to my f type,if you remove the price of two tyres and the cost of the excess for the damaged screen then that's around £500 , which puts your service at around £700 which I think is a little high, certainly compared to what I pay for mine,£90 to replace a tyre valve is day light robbery I would of made a fuss about that. Still a nice car all the same.
Yeah £407 for the service and around 180 go the tyres. To be fair there is a disparity in costs because the Alpine dealers are sometimes located within Arnold Clark, John Clark etc. Cheaper than a Porsche at least lol. Do like the F type too
Hello and welcome back or indeed welcome.
Here's the follow up to the second year service and fuel pump recall video from a week ago. Having been away there was a bit of a delay in posting the second part.
Unfortunately picked up a cracked windscreen on the courtesy car as well which I could certainly have done without lol. Wanted to post a video giving an idea of some of the costs involved but have to say the overall experience has been a good one from a customer service perspective.
Thanks for watching and please leave a comment and like or subscribe, it would mean a lot.
But your tied Into main dealer service, and they know that
Absolute piss take that I’m afraid, I would not be happy with that bill
@@LindsayMacrae-n4s yeah wasn't great for some of the bits. On PCP there isn't the option to take it anywhere else, there's options for an independent once it's paid for but they'll probably still need to go through Alpine for most of the parts. The key coding was the one that stuck in my throat the most.