Hi, Can anyone help with this? 

I have a ford fiesta via pcp with evans halshaw and they charge £407 for the second year service, Do I have to have my service done with ford evans halshaw or can any independent garage do my service as if I dont do the service via evans halshaw I can save around £150.

You can have it done by an independent but it must be using the correct parts and you need receipts to prove it including the exact spec of oil or Ford could deny a future warranty claim. 
 

It would be worth calling round other Ford dealers too. Some charge a lot less for servicing than the big groups. 

Check the wording of your PCP agreement which is probably actually with Ford Credit rather than Evans Halshaw.. Mine said it must be "serviced to maufacturers recommendations, using materials that meet the manufacturers specifications" so yours is no doubt similar.

Subject to that, no reason why you can't shop around, taking note of Alex's comments above.

If you are thinking of buying the car at the end of the PCP, you would probably have a better chance of goodwill outside of warranty by keeping the car within the Ford network for service. Not all Ford dealers charge the same, as already mentioned.

If it's a 3 year deal you've only got to have one service while under warranty and on finance.  Personally I think it is worth paying the extra for that first dealer service.  

31 minutes ago, TomsFocus said:

If it's a 3 year deal you've only got to have one service while under warranty and on finance

Snag is the ST is 12 months/12,500 interval. Plus - and I think we've discussed this elsewhere - even my 2 year PCP is actually 25 months so they still get you for 2 services!

23 minutes ago, Eric Bloodaxe said:

Snag is the ST is 12 months/12,500 interval. Plus - and I think we've discussed this elsewhere - even my 2 year PCP is actually 25 months so they still get you for 2 services!

Good point.  Somehow I read 'via' as 'van' so assumed 1.0EB. 🤦‍♂️

I think most people probably swap before the final month of PCP so that may not be quite so relevant but definitely worth remembering.

8 minutes ago, TomsFocus said:

I think most people probably swap before the final month of PCP so that may not be quite so relevant but definitely worth remembering.

Perhaps so. Given that apparently 90% of new cars are bought on finance, I wonder what the split is between simply handing the car back, paying the final balance and keeping the car, or taking out a further finance plan?

Some dealers I've found are surprisingly candid that the object of a very attractive initial deal is to get the buyer hooked on finance. Then, as long as the next deal can be structured to give a similar monthly payment, they stick with it without questioning the detail/interest rate too much.** 

(**I was reading an article recently which suggested that 90% of buyers don't fully understand the deal they have signed up for, more than half don't know what PCP stands for and - most worryingly - nearly half of buyers weren't even sure how much they had borrowed!)

 

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