First service at Ducati London South - good price

[rjc]

Just had my S4R in for it's first service. Not only is the Service Centre Manager, William courteous over the phone but the cost came in at 193 quid. Not bad eh?

[gary tompkins]

£193 :eek: :eek: :eek:

Not a bad price for an oil & filter change + 36 cups of tea (in Ducati corsa mugs) for the mechanics :rolleyes:

Better start saving for the 6K service, and enquire about a second mortgage for the full 12K jobbie methinks? ;)

[rjc]

I should have said "... comparatively speaking"!!

[spacemonkey]

And I just paid that for a car's full service (and I mean full in the old fashioned sense of properly done..) and cambelt change!

Us? Ripped off?? Never...

[dunxster]

Well they have got to pay for the Chelsea showroom somehow...

[Richard_S]

anyone know the 12k price for a 620?

[slob]

anyone know the 12k price for a 620?
I had mine done earlier in the year @ DLS, it was around £300, from memory.

[Richard_S]

that cant be right, i was charged over that for my 6k at P&H. I know that they are a bit pricey but jeez

[dukiwi]

i just had my 2nd service...1 year...at DLS. i gave them some crash protectors and a bellypan to fit for me while they were at it. total cost of 450 quid. not cheap by any means.

[A Yerbury]

I read recently that obligatory servicing by (rip orf) official dealers is no longer necessary with cars. bikes should now be that way too arent they?

[Richard_S]

yep until u need some warranty work and then they feck u in the eye. slightly off topic but I recently sent a lovely letter to the MD at ducati uk praising the service that i had received from ducati insurance. a gem of words and i expect in today's day and age pretty damn unusual. I got no response at all. for an "italian"ish company they really do seem to be a pretty horrible bunch. monti from maranelllo is lovely in comparison.

[A Yerbury]

isnt it they TRY to feck the eyeballs but they have no legal feet?

[bod]

My 1st service at Italia Moto £43.00 all in beat that :D

[A Yerbury]

not bad for an oil change!

[berto]

:eek: First service at DucatiGlasgow is aboot £40(cos we do labour free you only pay for the consumables) ;)

[Richard_S]

life is (apparently) always better in corby :rolleyes:

[A Yerbury]

the labour is free ya tit.

[Richard_S]

too late too late will be the cry when the man with 16 nipples passes you by

[berto]

;) You two pearly queens were obviously mixed in the same beaker....non?

[A Yerbury]

pearls before swine dear. still, you have an obscene mind which gets my vote.

[Richard_S]

;) You two pearly queens were obviously mixed in the same beaker....non?

ah but do you know the true story of Pocahontas?

[A Yerbury]

I am pochahontas, bow before my amazonian moccasin chubby scotsman.

[berto]

;) No way,you will rub yer willy oan ma heid!!!!!! :burnout:

[Richard_S]

A female ferret will die if it goes into heat and cannot find a mate. You may be all hontas like but with no furr and small teeth you will never reach the top of the chain.

cut those pig tails and grow ur bellybutton hair

[A Yerbury]

hey pig tails are the new going out, is that true of pine martins too? and what if the bb hair is plaited? bertie you just had a freudian moment, go and cleanse yourself henceforth.

[Richard_S]

you need to look deeper. the psychic structure suggests that if they hang someone will pull them. dont be a victim.

[berto]

:o Queerhawks as far as the eye can see!!! :(

[A Yerbury]

I have em wired up to a couple of yuasa s in the wonderbra dept, cunning? yes. shocking? most certainly. excuse me now, briefly, the wonderful shiraz has been consumed, I must re acquiant my self with the berg that is Kronen (hey, I did'nt buy the stuff.....)

[Richard_S]

well that is reasurring, no way I could pull off a rescue mission for atleast an hour. slightly incompasitated from a weekend combo of carbonazza, lotus tea and seven bags of snow whites dwarves. tomorrow we have ducks, cravats and champagne kellogs.

[A Yerbury]

I demand cheap novelty items with all my cereals, sadly they don't appear...being an muesli kind of a chap.....

[Richard_S]

i have become acustomed to creating little people from my puffs.

everyone needs a reason to get up.

[A Yerbury]

If you could fashion a wirey bearded one we could have an ebay scenario on our platters that would put even the dead sea scrolls to shame. get carving.

[Richard_S]

sounds like one of those million dollar plans. stetsons, revolving drink cabinets, nympet eye balls all around and a fish tank made of seaweed. lets do it. it could be the break we have been waiting for. notepad and beady eye at the ready.

[A Yerbury]

it's that level of enthusaism so lacking in the young of today. I do have a spare stetson - it may need steaming - but its the real bear fur deal. texan, natch..

[Richard_S]

dig it out the more the merrier

[A Yerbury]

I shall, although the stetson is a sombre head piece, for merriment you need the full on ten gallon affair. no one really took J R seriously did they?

[Richard_S]

sombre is a saturday thing. bring it on!

[A Yerbury]

what is the purpose of this mission btw? is this dermist tweaking some pelts? shame you cant blag a flash motor, we'll just have to approach this in a mittyesque fashion..again. Bagsie I'm thelma this time. Bloody magical realism.
Allesandro Bandoleros Octavio Jesus Garcia Marquez.

[Richard_S]

all the tweeking should be done so just need to go and collect. nice chap, bit strange (obviously), but hopefully tina will be looking 25 again. have a wander, eat some toffee, have a shandy.....take a swim? everything is easy when ur big in japan or cambridge

[A Yerbury]

you could upgrade with some "sabre teeth"??? how the 8 year old Yerbury lamented that beasts demise.

[Richard_S]

there is a very fine line between the techniques of our aborigine colleagues and a full on skirmish involving the iguana that’s perched in his "workshop".

i take my chances flying by the skin of my pants...only one bad dream involving demonic monkeys coming to rep their revenge. not a bad record for a connoisseur of all things obscure with vague tendencies to scream

[A Yerbury]

Laura dern whilst auditioning for the role paid a visit to David Lynches house to discuss Blue Velvet, in his fridge amongst the usual fare of cheese, veg (do I need to list the average contents of a fridge?!) any ways, amongst these mundane items were bits of disected mice and other small animals, he casuallly refered to them as "just some of his kits" . what a marvelous chap.

[Richard_S]

a moment of clarity and a lesson to us all.

integrity, charm, a warming tone and a box of mouse memrobilia.

bless them or shoot them. need to do one or tother :rolleyes:

[A Yerbury]

a lesson indeed, politely decline the kind offer of a sandwich.