8000 service cost?

[Guest geordiedancer71]

Well just over the 8000 miles.

Any idea of the cost of the service?

John

[wozza 967]

Well Lancaster Honda quote £135 if that's any help as a guide...

[Guest geordiedancer71]

2 quotes so far 156 Batley Honda. 150 castle motors castleford.

[wozza 967]

Good idea to shop around.

[Mike5100 2,061]

can anyone else give updates on what they have paid please.  My dealer is sying that Honda's guidance is £280-£300.

Thanks

Mike

Edited February 19, 2013 by Mike5100

[Mike5100 2,061]

I pointed out the prices quoted on here, and my dealer says they can't be doing the valve check then?

Mike

[Guest scrumpymike]

Mike, your lot are way over the top. For example, JaseR paid £135 at Thunder Road in December and I'm assuming that the price must have included a valve clearance check as specified by Honda. I did a phone round various dealers before buying the bike and they were all pretty consistently around that price except for one bunch of comedians, who were asking double. Dealers like them deserve to be disenfranchised by Honda, who have deliberately marketed the NC as being cheap to buy and run.

[Guest duk2n]

Mike is doing a good point. I would bet the cheap dealers are not doing the valve check. And the following question is if a valve check at 8,000 is needed or not. Probably Honda was conservative because the engine was a new design

[Mike5100 2,061]

my dealer is offering to do it for £160 without the valve check, but I guess if the engine were to go wrong subsequently, Honda could say the servicing wasn't done properly?

Would you be able to tell whether a dealer had checked the valve clearances if that's what they said they were going to do.  

Mike

[Guest Crusty]

I'm being quoted £230 - £250, which they have said includes the valve clearance check and adjustment.

Edited February 20, 2013 by Crusty

[Mike5100 2,061]

Thanks Crusty - If mine will do it for £230, I will go with them

Mike

[JaseR 213]

I have the service book stamped by a Honda dealer - to my mind, that means they've done the servicing in accordance with the servicing schedule. If there was a warranty claim it would be hard for Honda UK to argue it hadn't been serviced properly.

 

Fowlers of Bristol quoted something like £165 - they reckoned it was 2 hours work, as a guide.

[Guest onedartmart]

I have the service book stamped by a Honda dealer - to my mind, that means they've done the servicing in accordance with the servicing schedule. If there was a warranty claim it would be hard for Honda UK to argue it hadn't been serviced properly.

 

Fowlers of Bristol quoted something like £165 - they reckoned it was 2 hours work, as a guide.

Jase, did you go to Newport Thunderroad ?

I went to Bridgend and it was £135 but that was the yearly service as I've only done 4k so far. The only difference I can see between the yearly and the 8k is the valve check.

[Mike5100 2,061]

ah yes - that could explain things.  

Mike

[JaseR 213]

I have the service book stamped by a Honda dealer - to my mind, that means they've done the servicing in accordance with the servicing schedule. If there was a warranty claim it would be hard for Honda UK to argue it hadn't been serviced properly.

 

Fowlers of Bristol quoted something like £165 - they reckoned it was 2 hours work, as a guide.

Jase, did you go to Newport Thunderroad ?

I went to Bridgend and it was £135 but that was the yearly service as I've only done 4k so far. The only difference I can see between the yearly and the 8k is the valve check.

Cwmbran Thunder Road, yes - it's sounding like they might have messed up, but they stamped the book (I checked!)

[Guest onedartmart]

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I have the service book stamped by a Honda dealer - to my mind, that means they've done the servicing in accordance with the servicing schedule. If there was a warranty claim it would be hard for Honda UK to argue it hadn't been serviced properly.<br />

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Fowlers of Bristol quoted something like £165 - they reckoned it was 2 hours work, as a guide.</p></blockquote>

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Jase, did you go to Newport Thunderroad ?<br />

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I went to Bridgend and it was £135 but that was the yearly service as I've only done 4k so far. The only difference I can see between the yearly and the 8k is the valve check.</p></blockquote>

Cwmbran Thunder Road, yes - it's sounding like they might have messed up, but they stamped the book (I checked!)</p></blockquote>

You got a good deal ( as long as they did check the valves).

Anyway, like you say- once the book is stamped it would be hard for Honda to dispute any warranty claim.

Ride on

Marrin

[JaseR 213]

Had a demo of the CBR500R at Thunder Road Bridgend today and was speaking to one of the staff there and they weren't too sure about the NC requiring a valve check at 8K miles (he wasn't the service guy) so he checked. When he found out that the valves were part of sevice he phoned Thunder Road Cwmbran and asked them if it had been done as I'd got such a low price. Apparently it wasn't so I said I'd call into Cwmbran on the way home to book it in to be done - Thunder Road weren't going to charge either!

 

Got to Cwmbran and they showed me the service card and the valves had been checked - they'd quoted the cheap price so had honoured the price! Really impressed with that! And to compensate me for coming out of my way they topped up my fuel tank Really can't fault what they did!

[tc3 1,095]

Good end result there Jase

[Guest aknowler]

As regards cost of 1 year/8000 mile service, Kent motor cycles (Honda dealer near Canterbury on A2) charged me £117. Actual mileage on bike is 5,600.

Did not ask about valve adjustment, as said by JaseR, the Honda service stamp is in the book, so any future warranty problems should be sorted.

Ride safe,

Alan.

[Rocker66 34,375]

If you had your bike done at Kent  you should have no problems as they are good lads.

The only down side being that now Lucy is leaving there will be nomore  of the worlds best fried bread available in H's Cafe

[Guest burger650]

Perth Motorcycles .. 8000 mile service.

 

"The service intervals for a NC700 are 8000 miles, at this point it also requires the valve clearances to be checked, this service costs £293.22.  If you do not do a lot of miles in a year we can do a short service which would be an oil and filter change and visual inspection for £116.13.

[Derek_Mac 1,404]

 That sounds about par for the course for Perth Motorcyles, although in fairness to them they didn't screw me over when they restricted my 700X.

[Guest scrumpymike]

Bought a new Kawasaki VN900 Custom from them 3 years ago. Unless things have changed since then, they sell their bikes at such low prices that maybe they try to make more money out of their servicing.

[Guest CBR45]

Booked mine in yesterday.

£130 at Branson of Gloucester.

[Guest scrumpymike]

Paul, what service are you getting? Branson's in Yeovil have quoted me £146 for the annual 4000-ml oil & filter!