qik1 Silver Donating Members 2,720 Member For: 16y 5m 30d Gender: Male Location: Loitering in SEQ Posted 04/09/09 10:30 AM Share Posted 04/09/09 10:30 AM Mate they bullsh!tted ya with the price of that oil, I'm a spare parts manager in a different trade & I can guarentee you that if they wanted to do something about the price of that oil they could of. They dont pay 50/l it would be more like $30/L at max. Theres good margain in spare parts trust me!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jasol Member 571 Member For: 15y 9m 13d Location: adelaide Posted 04/09/09 10:41 AM Share Posted 04/09/09 10:41 AM at my local ford the genuine zf oil was $60ltr I rang basically every trans shop near by they charge 45-55 per litre but as qik1 said theres quit a mark up a 20ltr drum is about 550-600 you do the maths, you can use non genuine but it will void your warrentie, oh and a service is about 4.5-5ltrs and the trans dry is about 9ltrs. I cant see why they used 8ltrs(I doubt they actually did) as others have said id be takeing it to a decent mechanic/tuner that's more interested in looking after your car than looking after there profit margin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
qik1 Silver Donating Members 2,720 Member For: 16y 5m 30d Gender: Male Location: Loitering in SEQ Posted 04/09/09 10:50 AM Share Posted 04/09/09 10:50 AM When times are tough its the first thing to go up. When people dont buy new they will always service. If it was a 4sp the penrite stuff would of saved you a truck load or if it is a 6sp transmax z would of been my choose that's what my newly built zf will be drinking. Ohh well once bitten twice shy is all you can do now. But for those out there where they give you a sob story about that's what we get charged crap tell them to sit down & have another think. Not on every occassion of coarse because they dont do it for fun & are entitled to make money but theres no need to go stupid!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Broaders77 Member 73 Member For: 16y 3m 21d Posted 04/09/09 10:57 AM Author Share Posted 04/09/09 10:57 AM I just hope enough people read this thread (and others like it) and choose not to go to Ford for servicing. Maybe if their reputation gets bad enough they'll change their ways, but I won't be holding my breath Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SHOCK Team Grandpa Donating Members 1,921 Member For: 18y 6m 11d Gender: Male Location: Hunter Valley Posted 04/09/09 11:09 AM Share Posted 04/09/09 11:09 AM Hence my request to post the name of the dealer but legals gets in the way....would be spewn if someone else on this forum went and did the same thing Saturday cause they didnt know who the dealer was that did this to you!!!!!!!!!At the least Moddys..... let him give the area or suburb?Ive previously worked for OEM's(Orginal Equipment Manufacturers) and beleive me we wernt to worried about the sell price.... it was the aftermarket gear we were chasing?Good on you for at least getting some money off anyway...well done Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
qik1 Silver Donating Members 2,720 Member For: 16y 5m 30d Gender: Male Location: Loitering in SEQ Posted 04/09/09 11:11 AM Share Posted 04/09/09 11:11 AM there the same in my little town, I take it to my tuner nearly 2hrs away to do anything on it now that's how little I trust there service side. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dagabond Bored Member Administrator 35,722 Member For: 21y 11m 27d Gender: Male Location: Dé·jà vu Posted 04/09/09 11:14 AM Share Posted 04/09/09 11:14 AM At the least Moddys..... let him give the area or suburb?No real point really, there ALL the same on pricing no matter which FORD dealer you go to..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trevs Member 781 Member For: 17y 6m 20d Gender: Male Location: balmain Posted 04/09/09 11:29 AM Share Posted 04/09/09 11:29 AM most if not all ford dealers are useless rip off assholes just thinking about paying that sort of money to them *beep* makes me mad im pretty sure I would have lost my mind if it was me and burnt the place down and with that much work carried out by thoses idoits your gonna have problems that's for sure most times ive used ford service they caused more problems than they fix cheers trev Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bjviper Member 11 Member For: 16y 5m 22d Gender: Male Location: Brisvegas Posted 04/09/09 12:25 PM Share Posted 04/09/09 12:25 PM Looks like I won't be taking my newly aquired FG to ford for any servicing! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GCTXR6 Member 295 Member For: 16y 6m 28d Gender: Male Location: CANNINGVALE wa Posted 04/09/09 12:45 PM Share Posted 04/09/09 12:45 PM (edited) yep there are the same over here in wa more interested in wallet flush additives that ford dosnt recomend (as per the log book )ive worked in dealerships and the service advisors earn a fortune on the wallet flush conponent of the servicing (usually getting $10-$25 per up sell ie auto flush and injector service etc also get about 1% of total labour sold over the month so sometimes leaving legit work aside to sell the sh*t ) IE front brake package $280 inc parts and skim so labour conponent 1.5hours @ $105per hour =$1.05commision or sell a auto trans flush at $350 and get $25 commission . nothing wrong with making a profit or commision but surely people are waking up to this crap Edited 04/09/09 12:47 PM by GCTXR6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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