Originally Posted by
Robskytoon
I just knew someone would make this comment rather than accept it as an option over a main dealer or specialist MB site.
Commercially dealers & specialists buy a limited amount of oil from the suppliers and as such have high prices they pass on to their customers.
F1 have 59 sites and like Halfords (who charge £70) have a bulk buy price which would be considerably less than the above. They also have a higher throughput of vehicles and coupled with their bulk buy prices this makes them ultra competitive.
Do you buy tyres from main dealers or go to a discount tyre centre? Do you get the same product at lower price or is it a lesser product?
And before you ask I don't work for F1 Autocentres or Halfords just been in Sales & Marketing a long time
Understand exactly what you say Rob
Just that one thing I will not skimp on is engine oil! also F1 Autocentres have not got a very good reputation, at least in the London & Southeast area's.
For me £60 inc vat for an oil service just say cheap oil and filter neither of which I would want in any of my cars.
At the end of the day, we all have our own views on things like this
it would be a boring old world if we were all the same
