To know whether one is getting a good deal or not when getting a quote for a fault to be fixed, it would be very helpful to know how many hours on average a particular job will take and the average hourly rates charged by independents. A sticky of this would be brilliant! Anybody knows a good site with this kind of info? It's just that you take your car down to your indi for some fault to be fixed, and he quotes a price, but do you know really whether you are getting a true price, or being ripped off? My indi appears to be charging between £60 & £70 per hour. I don't know what main dealers charge.

Main dealers I think approx. £95p. My indi is £45 +vat. Even better ask for a job price rather than hourly.

SCdavies wrote:

Main dealers I think approx. £95p. My indi is £45 +vat. Even better ask for a job price rather than hourly.

It really wouldnt matter, the price of a job is the total. A quick bit of research gets you list price of parts the rest is obvious. I suspect most use LR or Thatham times anyway. The exception being timing belts and break pipes whichost Indis have worked a quicker way of doing rather than removing the body 2x TDV6. SE and HSE. Both returned to sender with issues👀
TDV8 Sport HSE...... Gone. Loved it but it didn't love me!!
Now rolling in MY10 Fullfat TDV8 Vogue. Slammed it to go round corners🙈
Cruising daily #56 mph in a Volvo V8. 😱
Lots of other toys in the cupboard...😜