My Car Service – a new Irish Website
A new nationwide car service booking website for Ireland – called Mycarservice.ie is being advertised a lot on the radio . It sounds like a good idea – you just enter the details of the make and model of your car as well as mileage and they give you a price for the work . You can get quotes for a small service or a full service as well as other work such as new brake pads or timing belt.
There are garages / service centres all over Ireland where you can choose to get the work done. The prices seem to be the same where ever you choose to get the work done . We selected a few different locations and the price for a service on the same make and model of car was the same in each one. My car Service take a €10 booking fee and you pay the balance to the garage.
Sample prices:
Full Service and front and rear brake pads on a 2008 car , 60,000km
Fiat Panda 1.2 Petrol €390.93
Opel Zafira 1.6 petrol €442.53
Citroen c4 2l Deisel €476.88
Kia Ceed 1.6 deisel €453.09
Sample Prices for Full Service Only
1.6 l Petrol Citroen C2 €242.06
Fat Panda 1.2l Petrol €195.71
Fiat Punto 1.6l Petrol €244.22
2l Ford Mondeo (Petrol) €272.73
There seem to be service centres available in every Irish county -but some counties only had one or two. Hopefully the numbers will grow as the idea catches on. Not sure if paying the same price for a car service in Roscommon as in Dublin will go down well with Roscommon people? (They might think it should be less. ) But having a standard nationwide price and a standard list of the work to be carried out should help avoid any “rip off” worries.
We didn’t actually use any of the garages on My Car Service for servicing – we just tried out the website and checked the prices.