The stated prices and savings are based on quotes from garages registered with Autobutler and their own individual prices.
The number of quotes, prices and savings may vary depending on car manufacture, model, year, workshop availability and when and where in the country the task is to be carried out.
To see the lowest possible price and the biggest possible current savings, "The whole country" must be selected in the offer overview when a job is created.
"FROM PRICES"
is the cheapest available current price, for the same type of job from workshops throughout the country.
"SAVE UP TO"
is calculated as the saving obtained between the cheapest and most expensive quotes on the same job type where at least 25% have obtained the promoted SAVE UP TO saving within the radius from which the quote is collected.
"SAVING ON AVERAGE" and "AVERAGE PRICE"
are calculated as an overall average of prices and savings obtained on quotes on the same job type within the radius from which quotations are obtained.
"FROM PRICES" are updated every half hour and are stated in GBP. Other price and saving statements which are stated in GBP or percentage are updated once a quarter (1 Jan., 1 Apr., 1 Jul., and 1 Oct.) based on 12 months of data from jobs that have received at least four quotes. Prices include VAT and other possible charges.**
The actual number of quotes, prices, savings, and availability of garages may have changed since you last visited autobutler.co.uk or received marketing from us via e.g., email, online or offline campaigns etc. Therefore, always create a job at autobutler.co.uk to see the current available prices and savings.
**Reservations are made for errors and omissions in the content of the offer, prices and descriptions as well as for sold-out spare parts.
1. The open competition between the workshops
The registered workshops on autobutler.co.uk are in open competition to win you as a customer. The individual workshops cannot see prices or quotes from competing workshops, but they are aware that you can easily compare online offers from different workshops via autobutler.co.uk.
2. Geographical differences
There are different expenses for e.g. rent, but also wage differences between cities, areas and regions in the UK. You can take advantage of this when searching across cities and areas. The wider the geographical area you search in, the greater your opportunities for savings.
3. Workshops have chosen to reduce their price
You can find workshops that have just started, lack customers or who wants extra revenue and therefore offers a discount on their services.
Autobutler ensures that the offer descriptions from the workshops are fully comparable, based on indicative repair times, and correct spare parts. The workshops themselves indicate their individual hourly prices (as well as any discount on this) and their potential discount on spare parts (if any). The workshop also informs whether the workshop offers a loan car and a price per day for lending it out.
Autobutler provides online quotes for service and car repairs from independent workshops that are registered and approved to bid on tasks via autobutler.co.uk.
Our mission is to ensure car owners low prices, transparency, high quality and service when the car needs to be repaired. You get written offers from Autobutler-approved workshops and can see your savings when you compare offers on autobutler.co.uk.
The workshops themselves define their own price for their individual services. They are aware that their prices and offers are in open competition with other workshops on autobutler.co.uk - which gives the workshops an incentive to keep prices low.
We offer you the additional safety with the Autobutler price match. If you can present a valid, written offer that is cheaper than the cheapest offer received from autobutler.co.uk, we will match the price via a workshop on autobutler.co.uk. Price match applies throughout the country.
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Time consumption
The car manufacturers have defined indicative guidelines for the amount of time the workshop must use for a given repair on the individual car brands, models and years. To the extent that guidelines are available, these will be the basis for the calculation of offers in terms of time consumption (and spare parts included). However, unfortunately there are offers that cannot be calculated based on the car manufacturers' instructions - where workshops can therefore have different time consumption on the task.
Hourly price
The hourly price at the workshops can have a great impact on the savings you can achieve, since the hourly price often make up a considerable proportion of the total workshop bill, depending on what kind of work in which you ask for a quote. It is the workshops themselves that state their own individual hourly prices + their potential discount on this. You may therefore experience significant differences in the price, especially if the task requires a large amount of hours.
Discount on spare parts
Autobutler workshops are obliged to use, as a minimum, spare parts in OEM-approved quality. These are spare parts that correspond in quality, fit, durability and material strength to the original spare parts and with at least the same guarantees. The workshops have different purchase prices from the suppliers of spare parts and can therefore give an extra discount on spare parts via autobutler.co.uk. Even if the same spare parts are included in offers from different workshops, you will find that the price of these is different at the different workshops.
Special offers and promotions
In addition to the workshops' hourly prices, spare parts prices and individual discounts, the workshops at Autobutler can have special offers or campaigns for a shorter period, which make your total price lower - just as there can be composite product packages where the workshops have set a total price for the task in advance.
Since the communicated savings are average savings for each type of repair across car brands, models and years, which are based on the workshops' individual prices, you may find a higher or lower savings for your specific job.
The actual savings on your job are clearly communicated in your actual offer overview, where you can see all the details, prices and content of the individual offers before booking your appointment with a local workshop.
A huge part of the UK workshops has chosen not to advertise or present their prices online or in writing at all. They are not necessarily interested in working for greater transparency.
We do not include prices from workshops that do not convey offers via autobutler.co.uk although this could possibly give an even greater price range and make visible how large discounts you obtain by using a marketplace such as autobutler.co.uk.
Autobutler wants transparent prices and encourage all the country's workshops to do as we do: Display the prices freely and show in detail what a car repair costs before the car owner shows up at the workshop.
All online quotes on autobutler.co.uk are specified and comparable, so you know exactly how much you have to pay and what the price includes before you hand your car over to the workshop. The workshop follow our quality requirements - and they can't charge you more than the agreed price unless you have given your consent.
However, we cannot guarantee that you will not be able to find a cheaper offer at another workshop.
Our price match is your guarantee that if you find a cheaper written offer than the cheapest one you got via autobutler.co.uk, we will match the price.
If the workshop offers a courtesy car, it assumes that your visit to the workshop can fit in with an available courtesy car.
The workshop's price for a courtesy car will always be shown as the pure rental price for the car itself. But in addition to this price, there may be an additional cost for unavoidable expenses such as; fuel, cleaning and insurance. In addition, there may be restrictions such as the number of kilometers driven.
The workshop cannot guarantee you a courtesy car with the same functions as your own car.
We therefore recommend that you always secure the conditions for borrowing a car with a separate written agreement at the workshop, where the price and terms are specified.
Autobutler is a marketplace that ensures written and fixed agreements.
It is a huge advantage for you that all online quotes at Autobutler are specified, so you know exactly how much you have to pay and what the price covers before you hand the car over to the workshop. The workshop are bit allowed to demand more than the agreed price without making a new agreement with you and the mechanics must meet our extended quality requirements.
