Servicing costs

Wack61

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That is madness. We charge £495 Ghibli D / P basic, another £100 if its air filters and the Aux belt is a total nightmare of a job so without looking its about £200 parts and labour.

Spark plugs on a Ghibli P costs us about £150 from memory and half an hour fitting.

All prices plus VAT.

Its not just the filters and fluids, its the £50k of diagnostics plus licences, premises, heating, lighting, advertising....the list goes on.

All our cars get a complete brake strip down, drill the vent holes, repaint all the discs, grease and reassmbly so that's a couple of hours.

Diagnostic checks, greasing all the door, locks and hinges, lubing the seatbelts and window plus all the other little fixes that come with it.

A good hour of valeting and then on top of it all we get charged environmental disposal for all the old fluids.

You can't really base it agains non gen parts on your drive but do accept there are people who take the **** and those are the ones that don't give the cars the time and attention they should get.

I'd be utterly amazed if Maserati did half of that, obviously there's some badge tax when you buy a premium car but over double the price !, the ghibli diesel is going to up there with cheap jags and the germans at 10 years old, 10k
 

Manc5

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2016 Diesel Jeep Grand Cherokee, with the derived VM Motori single turbo 247bhp unit had a 12mths or 10k interval. It had 2 service types in the 4 years and 4 services of my ownership that cost - 1st service 275, 2nd service 680, 3rd service 350 then final service 750 (needed a cabin pollen filter). The bigger service included some 4wd and Air suspension checks.. each time the car got a software update and all recalls / faults rectified. Dealers were good and no quibble for warranty work related to rattle from headrest and seat mount replacement. There was mention of a 1k service that included ATF and DIff oil but that was around the 6 year mark so not my issue.
 

Wack61

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I bet this sounds glorious , just worked out the cost of PCH on the website, 5000 miles a year works out at £11.80 a mile

I know there are plenty on here that could probably afford it but really, who does that, 60k to hire it for 4 years then give it back.

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keith

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Yes the 6th service is the same as the 2nd. The inclusion of a diesel filter adds a few hundred.
When I sold my previous Ghibli at 110k miles I don't think the full Maser service history made the slightest bit of difference.
I reckon I spent around 6 or 7k on servicing over its time.
As soon as this one is out of warranty its going independent

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You echo the thoughts of Wack61, and it's the OCD in me that makes me fanatical about keeping the car like new, that will probably lead me to the door of a main dealer.
Although that said, an independent Maserati specialist is probably not significantly cheaper, as in half the price. I checked with one independent and a basic service was still around £500, compared to £650 at a franchise.
 

alfatwo

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I bet this sounds glorious , just worked out the cost of PCH on the website, 5000 miles a year works out at £11.80 a mile

I know there are plenty on here that could probably afford it but really, who does that, 60k to hire it for 4 years then give it back.

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You'd have to be totally nuts......

Give me an old Renault 4 or a Fiat Uno any day!

Dave
 
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Andyk

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I bet this sounds glorious , just worked out the cost of PCH on the website, 5000 miles a year works out at £11.80 a mile

I know there are plenty on here that could probably afford it but really, who does that, 60k to hire it for 4 years then give it back.

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I'm sure it's a great car but the issue is that doesn't look like a 100k car. If it was 80k it would make more sense. Think what you could have for 105k......
 

Ewan

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Give or take a few grand it’s the same price as its competition in the high-powered 4-door, 4-seat sector, such as the BMW M5 and the Audi RS6. It’ll sell in far smaller numbers though, which in time, should help its residual value. But of course, like the others, it’ll drop in value dramatically at first, and no one will pay the RRP anyway.
 

Wack61

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That looks like a price from 1973 not 83, are you sure that's 83

My first job was an apprentice panel beater in 1977 ( 50p an hour), the boss had a Dino, he'd bought it as a write off, needed a complete front end, cost a fortune, when it came they opened the boxes and it was just rough shaped metal, they all had to be hand shaped to fit the car

Nobody who worked there would do it because they cost so much so they had to get a specialist in

A few months after he asked me to help him lay a patio at his house for extra cash , walked to wards the Dino , yessssss

locked it up and got in an old land rover nooooo

probably a good thing, he wore glasses like jam jar bottoms , terrible driver, it was about 10 miles to his house, he went up the kerb twice going and once coming back.

I do remember his wife was much younger than him and fit as **** which was a surprise

He sold the dino not long after, £3000 rings a bell
 

fphil

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How much was a pint of ale in1973, 60p? Today? £ 3.60£? So the result should be about £ 200, still cheap :)
 

Andyk

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Give or take a few grand it’s the same price as its competition in the high-powered 4-door, 4-seat sector, such as the BMW M5 and the Audi RS6. It’ll sell in far smaller numbers though, which in time, should help its residual value. But of course, like the others, it’ll drop in value dramatically at first, and no one will pay the RRP anyway.

Maybe Ewan but I still look at it and it doesn't look like a £105k car. Problem I think as well is that most people understand what an M car, AMG or RS Audi is a there are many that yearn for them. Mention Trofeo and most will wonder what you are on about. I suppose as a more performance orientated Maserati if will take time for people to see the word Trofeo and understand it's the M/AMG/RS equivalent for Maserati.