The car is BMW X1 Sdrive18. I am just wondering why:
– There is Lichtmaschine erneuern cost, and then Lichtmaschine cost
– Same to battery, there are 2 services I need to pay

This was my first time doing inspection here in Germany, so I am very much appreciate your explanation. Thank you.

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  1. >The car is BMW X1 Sdrive18. I am just wondering why:
    >
    >There is Lichtmaschine erneuern cost, and then Lichtmaschine cost
    >
    >Same to battery, there are 2 services I need to pay

    once for the part itself, once for the labour of putting it on

  2. Did you actually have Problems with your car?

    I’m not a car technician, but from what I know the Lichtmaschine breaks very very rarely (please correct me if I’m wrong).

  3. No one can say that. The technician looks at what is broken and repairs it so that you can pass the TÜV.

    Whether that is a normal price? No one can answer that without being a mechanic and having checked your car.

    Not every car has the same deficits, so that depends on your car. A well maintained Porsche can be cheaper than a poorly maintained Skoda.

    Check the estimate to see if all the items are justified, or if one or two items are excessive. For me it looks like this. Get comparative cost estimates. You’ll be amazed.

    EDIT: Improvement and clarification

  5. Next time go to a „freie Werkstatt“ not a bmw specific one. And buy a cheaper car, so the service will be also cheaper

  6. They replaced the Generator AND the battery? Both parts have nothing to do with TÜV so did you notice anything wrong? Battery warning came on on the dash?

    This look suspicious because if there was a fault in this area it looks like they just threw parts at it.

    Others have said it, you could have saved on the Generator, Battery and Tires if you had bought this parts elswhere.

    Labor costs seem legit to me, replacing the generator can be timeconsuming.

  7. German carshop rule buy the parts 50%cheaper sell it 150% more expensive and give the customer 20% discount.
    I learned by mercedes and worked 10years an forklifts..
    They rape you in any way ✌🏼😂

  8. Holy scraps, almost 300€ for a battery. If you didn’t have any issues with it, then you definitely were ripped off, at the very least for that part. I paid 129€ for my battery on Amazon (Varta, 80Ah, 800A), which I bought and installed myself after realising the stop&start function stopped working reliably, so the battery needed replacing, only after more than 8 years. My previous car also needed replacing the battery after 8 years and only because it slept outside with very cold weather in France. Current car batteries don’t need replacing very often if they are not overly mistreated (and I haven’t treated my last one very well).

    I think I have never paid for a new alternator in a car, no matter how old it was. There were always other issues way before that.Usually you don’t have to change both at the same time unless you were having problems for a long time, so maybe you got stiffed on those here.

    The tyres’s price look reasonable, though. Perhaps something like a 15-25% markup, nothing as bad as with the battery.

    You might want to avoid this dealer in the future and of course leave a review, and definitely keep the details (invoice, communications, etc.) saved somewhere for the time when they want to contest that review through the Google system.

  10. The prices are standard for a BMW garage in munich, it’s more a question wether everything was necessary.
    Did you give an order to repair all that parts or did the employee ask if they should renew the parts?
    How many millimeters of profile was on the old tires?
    The battery is available for max. 150€ incl. tax if you can replace it by yourself (which is pretty much the standard in getmsny).

  11. As a men I usually buy parts myself. Then I bring car with parts which I can’t change myself.
    But this looks ok. It’s for the TÜV and I’m sure no service here in Germany wants to do something illegal. Price for battery high, but depends what battery, but sure it’s close to same they get from their retailer.

  12. First(!) go to the TÜV. They determine what is wrong with the car. Then go to the rapair-garage and have only these points improved. And go to a “freie Werkstatt”.

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