This is what I paid 20/09/18 108000 mile service including cambelt + aux belt @99080 miles £530.00. That is for a 2010 1.6 s60 at my local indy.

As i said somewhere else , more and more independents recently are trying to keep as near the dealer prices as possible to ensure good profits , they want their cake and to eat it :-)
I know of two independents who charge slightly less labour and supply genuine parts at more than the Volvo recommended price to make more money .
I have seen cars from such places for their next service and find a non genuine oil filter in there !
so , say a genuine volvo oil filter costs £12 , they sell it for £15 and actually fit a £5 non genuine one therefore making £10 profit on the oil filter alone .
Everyone should scrutinise their service bill where ever they have it done .

No service (just had one), just the belts changed.

Definitely worth shopping around.

Well that seems horribly expensive!

I think I'll be doing it myself on the drive, after the alleged 90k threshold has been crossed, on a nice day.

How much would you say was reasonable?

cambelt kit , around £110

Aux belt and tensioner say £40 + £50 = £90

labour about 1.5 hours @ £110 per hour say £165

thats £ 365 + VAT = £ 438

add another £5 as the parts went up in price by 2.5% last week !

Spot on; within a few quid of what I paid at Taunton Volvo last year.

i think a lot of us have lost touch with the value of money these days , when someone up the road had a simple roof felt job done and it cost £2500 i was shocked as i paid about £700 15 years ago for a similar job . The thing is we don't realise how fast the years are going by !

Indeed. Youngest is a Volvo Penta Technician and monitors engines on V. expensive super yachts all over the world from his company in Southampton, liaising with onboard engineers and sending out parts and updates his laptop decides are required! The old adage buy cheap buy twice springs to mind with modern chipped engines.
Give me a set of points and a condenser any day of the week!:regular_smile:

Indeed if i was taking a car on a intercontinental trip for a years expedition with no garages anywhere it would be a volvo 340 ..... i'pack a battery and a starter motor and a screwdriver .

Well I got another quote from a second independent: £755.

It seems the big disparity is amount of labour. 5 hours?

Also, is it necessary to replace the water pump?

No. And you wouldn't use red coolant in a VEA engine.

The correct time for this job is about 2 hours .

The water pump is too cheap so not volvo , It will ruin your engine sooner or later . Volvo water pumps never need changing anyway ... they don't come any better

The coolant is volvo price but not volvo coolant , it will need changing in 2 or 3 years , whilst volvo coolant lasts indefinitely

They want to charge you an hour for changing the aux belt and tensioner ? that has to be taken off anyway as part of the cambelt job !! so should be zero labour !

Avoid at all costs ! just go to a dealer get it all done properly with the right parts at less cost .

Well I just got the car back from having this work done, only to find this hanging down from underneath. Can someone please tell me what it is?

That is the fuel pipe housing protection , can you tie it up and get it back to them pronto , or get them to take the car back ! I guess you had the 36000 or 72000 mile service .

are you aware theres a chap who fixes volvos in collin craig?

I have an offer for 790€ including VAT in Volvo workshop in Slovakia :shocked: