My car is due a P1 Service. The 3 year/60K warranty has now expired on it. Given the price differences in relation to using a Main Dealer or a normal garage for carrying out any maintenance work, is it still worth paying the extra, to keep with the main dealer?
Also, does it have any effect at all on the resale/trade in value of a vehicle, if you keep to a main dealer for the service record or to go with a local garage?
Finally, what is the main difference between a Nissan P1 and P2 Service?
Many Thanks.
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Now that is a coincidence! My 3 1/2-year-old Almera is now due its first out-of-warranty service, and earlier today I tried to decide whether to go back to the main dealer or head to an independent.
In the end, I chose the main dealer, because the nearby independent is very competent at repairs etc, but a bit chaotic on paperwork, so I thought I couldn't be sure whether they would actually check everything as per Nissan's list -- they might just do a what-seems-reasonable set of checks, and I wouldn't be happy with that
The main dealer has quoted me £125 for the P1 service, which seemed OK to me. I could probably get it cheaper at an independent if I knew a good one, but I don't quite trust any of my local independents enough. Plus the dealer will give me a courtesy car, which helps.
As to difference between P1 and P2 services, a google search for "nissan p1 p2 service" brought up this thread at the top of the list, but also this link: www.clubnissan.co.uk/parts/servicesheet.pdf
Hope that helps
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Mine's now four years old, and I've done the last services myself, so I know what's been done.
The last time I did it, I renewed the pollen filter. It should have been done at two years when the previous owner had it. I've got the main dealer receipt for that service. You could tell no-one had been there before. It would have had less than five thousand miles on it at that time.
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Thanks for the link.
Interesting to hear the price you got from your Main Dealer for a P1 Service. In my area, I have tended to find the opposite, in that the independants seem to be much more relaible and give a better service than our main dealer. We have had three different Main dealers here in 5 years and none of them have been fantastic, from my own experience.
Today I was quoted £142 for a P1 and £233 for a P2 service, with a lift home and back rather than a coutesy car. Is there not some ruling that the price for Main Dealer servicing, should be the same, whereever you go to? Does it have an effect on the value of your car, if your service history moves away from the Main Dealer?
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Our local independent charged £72 for a P1 service and £160 for the P2, both times including a "free" courtesy car.
When a car has something mechanically a bit out of the ordinary, for example our Nissan has a CVT gearbox, I've always felt more comfortable giving the car to the main dealer. It's a completely unjustified opinion - at the last Nissan main dealer service we had (a P3 for £295) they didn't change the transmission fluid or the pollen filter. When the inevitable "we've got your car on the ramp and found that....." phone call came, they suggested we might like to pay a further £105 for a £7 part that took 20 minutes to fit.
I never learn, however. My 4 year old Citroen went to the main dealer for a service, and they discovered it needed a couple of new tyres and the front pads and discs replacing - total bill £860. I wouldn't have minded so much if the car didn't fail it's MOT two weeks later on a worn wheel bearing - it makes me wonder how carefully the car was checked at the service.
With regard to main dealer costs being the same wherever you go, I don't know about Nissan - we've only ever used one Nissan dealer and will not be using them again, but I found a variation of £90 between two Citroen dealers, 200 miles apart.
So anyway, to get to the point, based on my experience, for a mechanically straightforward car, use an independent. I don't think it will have much effect on the resale value of the car.
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Full main dealer service history certainly affects the value of a car. But not by anything like as much as the additional cost of that history - unless perhaps you have some super-duper sports car.
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