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Old 04 May 2008, 08:40 PM
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Thumbs up These Cars are CHEAP to Service!

Just put on a BluePrint Air Filter - £5:09 all in!!

£5:09!!

Good grief!! Oil is £12:99, Oil Filter £5, Spark Plugs £7 each, Air Filter Element £5 ......

You can do a decent Service yourself for less than £40!!
Old 04 May 2008, 08:44 PM
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Just make sure you do a damge report beforehand so the customer does'nt balme you for it.
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think thats cheep check out the niparts prices !!!!
Old 05 May 2008, 08:44 AM
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I'm surprised you can get your arthritic gnarled up hands around a spanner Or has Ting Tong done it for you? (is there NO limit to his/her talents )

Still at those prices, there's more of your pension to spend on incontinence pads and werthers originals


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Old 05 May 2008, 08:47 AM
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£5 for an oil filter,they saw you coming, paid £2.17 for a blue print one from APD last week
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well i paied 5 quid for fuel. oil and air filter and 6.22 for fully sythetic oil too

but then i supply motorfactors and garages with adl/niparts parts and get them at cost price

remember that ADL now have fixed the prices of there parts unlike before and now garages/factors are limited at the price they can sell em for aswell as service parts have been reduced alot to compete with the changing of the car parts market ( guess what i do for a living pmsl )
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Originally Posted by The Rig
£5 for an oil filter,they saw you coming, paid £2.17 for a blue print one from APD last week
Hmmmmm, well ...... this will surprise you - but I only use Subaru Oil Filters, I can just about handle the extra £2:83 cost of these .... it's my only **** quirk I allow myself

AND I pre-fill the filter TOO!!!
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Originally Posted by pslewisisappealing
Hmmmmm, well ...... this will surprise you - but I only use Subaru Oil Filters, I can just about handle the extra £2:83 cost of these .... it's my only **** quirk I allow myself

AND I pre-fill the filter TOO!!!
But do you pre-heat the new oil?
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Originally Posted by stoneface
But do you pre-heat the new oil?

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Old 05 May 2008, 08:05 PM
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Originally Posted by stoneface
But do you pre-heat the new oil?
Oh **** ..... I knew there was something I had missed ...... there I was in my Subaru Dancing Outfit - spark plugs disconnected - seats out - radio tuned into Radio AN1L and I couldn't think what I had missed ...............

My engine will surely blow up in the next 50 miles now

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Pete,

I really hope that you remembered to 'dry crank' as well !!!
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