What are the running costs like on A Bentley GT?

[lambo_xx]

I was hoping someone could answer a couple questions for me:
How often do they need serviced?
How much do the cost to service from main dealers?
What’s the reliability like?
I realise this sounds like a fairly stupid question, but how fast are they compared to say a DB9? Looking at the figures they seem to be about the same, but I seem to remember Top Gear doing a drag race with them and the Bentley lost buy quite a bit.
What are the rear seats like? The ones in the DB9 are just shocking, but the back seats in my old 911 weren’t too bad.
I’m speaking about earlier cars specifically, not sure if that makes much of a difference.

Thanks for the help in advance.

[d3hno]

lambo_xx said:

I was hoping someone could answer a couple questions for me:
How often do they need serviced?
How much do the cost to service from main dealers?
What’s the reliability like?
I realise this sounds like a fairly stupid question, but how fast are they compared to say a DB9? Looking at the figures they seem to be about the same, but I seem to remember Top Gear doing a drag race with them and the Bentley lost buy quite a bit.
What are the rear seats like? The ones in the DB9 are just shocking, but the back seats in my old 911 weren’t too bad.
I’m speaking about earlier cars specifically, not sure if that makes much of a difference.

Thanks for the help in advance.

I had a lovely example of an 04 with 27k on the clock, FBSH.... lovely so I thought......... I got it inspected by Mayfair Bentley before I bought it, (just a lamp inspection, not a full inspection) and everything seemed great, it needed new pads and a dipstick which cost circa £1300 for front and rear pads and the labour.

When I got fed up I decided to sell it and the guy who bought it from me got a full inspection from Bentley Cardiff, who literally tore the car to pieces, including finding a leak from the "turbo area". The amount of hours of labour required to even inspect this fault run into the £1,000s, as well as loads of other niggly faults. I lost a loads on the car in s short space of time, my advice would be to make sure you buy a Bentley which has been fully inspected and with a warranty if you decide to buy one, apparently the turbos are known for fault and leaks and as I discovered, it isn't cheap.

The back seats are alright, the "tombstone" front seats make you lose a lot of visibility if you are in the back, but they aren't too bad for this Marquee.

The car needed a service before I sold it, it was around £1,200 for a minor service, which is required every 10,000 miles, i think the service pattern is Major, minor, major, minor from what I can remember.

Fuel consumption is heavily dependant on the way you drive it, but don't expect more than 11mpg around town, it simply won't happen.

Speed wise, it is a fast car but in terms of actually "feeling" the speed, the Aston is completely different, I currently have a vantage V8 at the moment and statistically the Bentley is faster, but the Aston feels faster.

Hope this helps.

Cheers.

[kryten22uk]

These cars seem incredible value, but cant work out why they dont have a depreciation floor. Most supercars level out after a while, but havent seen it happen yet. Were there just so many made that the supply outstrips demand?

This would suggest that you are going to lose £10k a year on a 2008 car, just as you will on a 2005 car. So may aswell have the newer one.