Diagnostic price

Hi complete newbie here.

I currently have Discovery sport 2.0 td4 2017.

My car has been broken since June and finally got looked at by a specialist last week.
The question I’ve got is the specialist told me it needed a 3 day diagnostics. He phoned and said he only had it on for 2 days said there’s 2 modules need replacing and something else that he can’t do and will need to go to landrover due to security reasons tv

My question is - The price for the diagnostics is £600 + Vat per day. Is this a normal price for a diagnostic?

Many Thanks

Well that depends, on what was wrong with it, his hourly rate and so on, basically how long is a piece of string.
Diagnosing vehicle electrical faults can be quite a challenge.

If you want to see how difficult some can be, see Diagnose Dan on youtube, he rattles on a bit, but the faults can be interesting, general garages go to him for stuff they cannot fix, possibly much like your specialist.

Depends what he calls diagnosis. Plugging into a diagnostic and running a test won't take more than 5 minutes.
Then you have to diagnose and hopefully cure the faults raised. Things like SWDL's will take longer. I believe the 2017 Landrovers have Software Over The Air and for 2017 I would think that is readily available to LR specialists. No more than 30 minutes per module if SOTA, dependant on download speed ?
A 2017 model should not have anything that is Main Dealer only.
For that price I would expect diagnosis and repair. Last diagnostic I had, two years ago, was £15/hour. It took 10 minutes and cost me £15 !

If you plan on keeping your Disco Sport for some time, definitely invest in a LR specific diagnostic tool like a GAP IID.
A proper diagnostic tool pays or itself after a couple of uses by troubleshooting/correcting faults on-the-spot and not having to go to a stealership or garage.

Winston417 said:

Hi complete newbie here.

I currently have Discovery sport 2.0 td4 2017.

My car has been broken since June and finally got looked at by a specialist last week.
The question I’ve got is the specialist told me it needed a 3 day diagnostics. He phoned and said he only had it on for 2 days said there’s 2 modules need replacing and something else that he can’t do and will need to go to landrover due to security reasons tv

My question is - The price for the diagnostics is £600 + Vat per day. Is this a normal price for a diagnostic?

Many Thanks

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I think you should find someone else to use. Waiting from June to Oct is waving a red flag for starters. Of course there are always 2 sides to every story.

What is the issue you have and what are they trying to diagnose?