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Dealer oil/filter change
beneteau
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Toyota dealer: $29.95, with internet coupon (5 quarts)
We have my wife's Lexus, which holds about 5-1/2 quarts, serviced at a local Toyota dealer due to the exorbitant prices charged by the Lexus dealer.
The charge for her car usually is around $35.00--$39.00.
Considering the cost of the oil and filter, that ain't a bad price.
We have my wife's Lexus, which holds about 5-1/2 quarts, serviced at a local Toyota dealer due to the exorbitant prices charged by the Lexus dealer.
The charge for her car usually is around $35.00--$39.00.
Considering the cost of the oil and filter, that ain't a bad price.
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Castrol GTX is the only oil I use in everything that uses regular motor oil. If I want an oil change with it at some shop. I have to buy it at the regular price and still pay the $29.00 to have it done. So I just do it myself.
Daughter has a Honda Rubicon 500 4 wheeler that takes 6 quarts of oil and calls for an oil change every 650 miles.. $45.00 just to change the oil and filter in it myself.
My Acura runs about $25 in materials
Wife's Escalade is about $30.
Saves $10-15 and enough time to do it at home.
Both are as simple as can be,
New-car dealerships can be just as bad. I used to have my oil and filter changed every 3k at the selling dealership of a particular car I bought. At 15k, the service manager told me that I needed about $350 worth of transmission work. I said the car was under warranty. She responded that it was not due to anything faulty, but that it was 'dealer-recommended at every 15k'. I declined. One of my nephews has the car today, with about 150k on it, and it has never had any transmission problems.
You guys with these $50 ~ $60 thousand dollars vehicles crack me up worrying about saving $20 bucks on an oil change.
Yeah, I was thinking the same thing.[;)]
quote:Originally posted by clays
You guys with these $50 ~ $60 thousand dollars vehicles crack me up worrying about saving $20 bucks on an oil change.
Yeah, I was thinking the same thing.[;)]
My wife's Lexus (2005) was originally sticker priced at around $65,000; however, we bought it in 2010, with 59,000 miles, for about $24,000.
I don't buy new cars. Let someone else lose all that money in depreciation. According to NADA used car prices, the Lexus now has a suggested "clean retail price" of $15,475.
I'm sure someone has some science behind it but I used nothing but regular old oil no fancy stuff no synthetic and changed oil and filter every 3k at Jiffy Lube and have over 285K on my Truck and 128 on my car with O problems, they don't smoke and don't use oil maybe I'm really lucky.
IMO, any name brand oil, like that used at Jiffy Lube and other oil change outlets, will 100% do the job if changed per schedule. If driving conditions are significantly outside of normal a designer oil may be indicated.
Otherwise, and for normal driving, designer oils are extra money for little or no benefit.
Brad Steele
quote:Originally posted by mogley98
I'm sure someone has some science behind it but I used nothing but regular old oil no fancy stuff no synthetic and changed oil and filter every 3k at Jiffy Lube and have over 285K on my Truck and 128 on my car with O problems, they don't smoke and don't use oil maybe I'm really lucky.
IMO, any name brand oil, like that used at Jiffy Lube and other oil change outlets, will 100% do the job if changed per schedule. If driving conditions are significantly outside of normal a designer oil may be indicated.
Otherwise, and for normal driving, designer oils are extra money for little or no benefit.
Bingo.
whats wrong with drum oil??? i would like to buy oil in the drum but to heavy to deal with
There's nothing wrong with it but there is a slightly greater risk that it's contaminated. Then there's problem of keeping the unsealed drum and delivery system dirt free. Unless you use a lot of oil it's usually not worth it.
How ever nearly every suspension part has been replaced at least once including a rear differential at 72k. I've spent at least 10k in repairs since. When I took it to the dealer back in Oct. they told me a needed ball joints, rear springs and rear shocks. Along with the 4x4 high fix and the ABS light on the bill would have been 6k. I told them no thanks and figured I'd just drive it until the wheels fell off.