A repair quote that varies by thousands of dollars depending on who is doing the asking can turn a customer into a crusader. That’s what happened to a Texas woman who says her Land Rover dealership quoted her $7,500 for a part, then quoted her father $2,500 for the same job when he called to check.
Ashlee (@findingashlee) laid out the saga in a three-and-a-half-minute TikTok. She opens by establishing that she is not a soft target.
"I grew up in a car dealership. My dad owned car dealerships for 52 years," she says, adding that she rebuilt the engine in her first car, a 1973 Corvette Stingray, at age 12. Her caption names the dealer and accuses it of "gender pricing and selling defective tires."
The Price Differential
About two years ago, Ashlee says, she took her 2013 Range Rover, then near 100,000 miles, to Land Rover Austin for what she calls a small oil drip. The dealer quoted $7,500 for a part, she says, a figure that struck her as way too high. She called her father, who phoned the dealership through a different service writer and asked what the same pump would cost, she says.
