Hey guys just wanted to hear your thoughts and see if this seemed reasonable. My local service center couldn't find any record of the 60k miles maintenance and wanted to perform it along with some general tune up stuff I wanted done. The 60k maintenance was something to the tune of 1600$ and the spark plug replacement something to the effect of 500$ (as part of my tune up). This seemed a little nutty to me and was wondering if anyone else had similar experiences at any point or if this seemed like normal dealership pricing. Browsing around online I see a lot of people saying it ought to be in the 700-1k range, but I can imagine that being due to different labor costs in different parts of the country.
JB2010
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$1600 sounds waaayyy to heavy for my wallet.
Most of the required maintenance is inspection.
Change plugs = $80 in parts and two hours if you are not motivated
Air cleaner = $25? - 5 minutes to replace if you take a break halfway through
Flush & change coolant - $60 in HOAT antifreeze? Change the plugs while it drains.
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Most of the required maintenance is inspection.
Change plugs = $80 in parts and two hours if you are not motivated
Air cleaner = $25? - 5 minutes to replace if you take a break halfway through
Flush & change coolant - $60 in HOAT antifreeze? Change the plugs while it drains.
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Got that right! There's only 12 beers in a box and 16 plugs. Now you have to move up to a 30 pk.
Plugs 15 and 16 can be tough.
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I must agree.
If you can / want to do this maintenance yourself go for it and save the coin.
The fear of having warranty work denied because there is no record of maintenance is BS to me.
Since I drive my vehicles till the wheels fall off I'm not concerned with devaluation....they're "rusted out junk" when I send them on their way.
The new vehicles I've purchased have run well over 200K miles with no warranty work required. I guess that's getting pretty lucky since i have my hands in there wrenching to do the maintenance.
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