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Quote: Originally posted by kontikiman on 28/11/2006

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Hi Mike

I paid £75 for my habitiation service in Derby at a fully approved service agent.

John

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Hi Kontikiman,

Thanks for that address in Derby will look to use next year, I presume they can also do warranty work on Swift products.

Only Fiat agent I could find for that side of the vehicle was Platts at Longton, Stoke who can take MH's, or do you know of any others ?.

David

Our Habitation service was done at the same time as our base vehicle service and I think we paid around £275 - £300 for both.  Got all the paperwork and everything.  Only thing that hacked us off was that when we took initial posession of the vehicle, they told us to only do the gas up just a little over finger tight with the spanner that was included with the vehicle (a rather thin flimsy thing, but they said that was so you didn't over tighten it).  The first time we used the vehicle afterwards, the gas needed changing.  They had obviously had it all off to check it in the service, but done it up so tight that Hubby bent the spanner trying to get it off.  He had to walk into the nearest town and buy a monster of a spanner to undo it with   I phoned the dealer and told him that if they are going to tell US not to over tighten it, they should tell their mechanics the same thing!

I know you say you don’t want to travel far, but why not incorporate it into your holiday.

I have had the vehicle service done over in France, full service € 116 (That's Euro not Pounds!!!) and the habitation service done for € 190 (This was by an approved Rapido dealer - Brownhills in the UK wanted to charge £ 200)

For the Fiat service just turned up at a small French garage, booked it in the following day and all done. Runs beautifully

For the habitation service they said a time for it to be taken in, we got it there on time, they said 2 hours to wait and 1 minute before the 2 hour period they walked back with the keys. They also changed an external light casing as it was cracked - only charged for the part not for fitting - try getting that type of service in the UK. They also provided tea/coffee and biscuits etc and colouring things for the kids

As long as the vehicle is serviced by a reputable dealer, using approved parts then the warranty is intact there was a court ruling on this some time ago as otherwise it meant the garages had a monopoly