They charged $15 for regular and $25 for synthetic with filter and bottled oil For all makes and models. They are now charging $49 for regular oil and $75 for synthetic. I’m shocked they did it for that long 
A local large dealership I’ve been using for close to 30 years has stopped their $15 oil and filter special
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Someone with business sense must have come into the picture!!They have been doing this for 30 plus years. They charged $15 for regular and $25 for synthetic with filter and bottled oil. They are now charging $49 for regular oil and $75 for synthetic. I’m shocked they did it for that long
Can't touch a synthetic oil change for under $150 for past 3 years now.
At a shop of course. Crawling under my own vehicles? Same moolah changes oil on both vehicles for 2 years. Up until I can't crawl under there anymore.
#hipsknees&backdamnit>.<#
At a shop of course. Crawling under my own vehicles? Same moolah changes oil on both vehicles for 2 years. Up until I can't crawl under there anymore.
#hipsknees&backdamnit>.<#
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Cost varies by area. I think the local Nissan dealer charges my FIL around $60-70 for a 0w20 oil change.
I don't really know as the odd time I paid someone to do an oil change for me was about 25yrs ago.
I don't really know as the odd time I paid someone to do an oil change for me was about 25yrs ago.
Yep-let's all join hands for yet another Kumbaya-you should be changing it your self thread......come by here.....the hosts of oil changers.
My Nissan dealer does it for $50 . Synthetic oil , Nissan filter .
Everything is going up.
A local shop that I use for OC's had a Synthetic OC and tire rotation special that they used as a loss leader to get people in the door for $29.99.
It then went up to $34.99.
Just got their most recent mailer. It is now $46.99. It still isn't a bad deal.
A local shop that I use for OC's had a Synthetic OC and tire rotation special that they used as a loss leader to get people in the door for $29.99.
It then went up to $34.99.
Just got their most recent mailer. It is now $46.99. It still isn't a bad deal.
Why not? It's a slow drama day.
Have you been on the "Hyundai car of the year thread"?
https://bobistheoilguy.com/forums/t...trick-autoblog-com.353715/page-4#post-6089882
That's a good one dude!
I was at my Hyundai dealer last weekend. Saw a sign that, due to increasing costs of oil, etc, they had to increase their conventional oil change (5 quarts) to $54.95 plus tax! Made me very happy that I save so much changing my own, especially with a new 16-year-old driving soon, meaning we will have four cars at home in the near future.
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Amazing that the cheap prices lasted so long. Oil changes were always a loss leader for dealers but I guess now they are at least trying to make $1 or $2 on a service trip other than wanting to flush all your fluids.
Oil changes are usually loss leaders, if you start getting too many people that don't purchase other services there's no longer any point in offering the service at that price level.
There's many vehicles that just the oil filter will set you back $15, not to mention the cost of the oil (or the cost of labour). Loss leader is one thing, but a $15 oil change is huge money pit for a shop unless they upsell the customer a bunch of other work.
That's when the acne covered pan nut jockey comes in and shows you a fully packed and filthy fuel filter from a Chevy truck when you drive a Toyota puddle skipper.
Enterprising ones will try to blow through it to demonstrate how terrible it is when there's not even a whiff of gasoline on the filter...
... or any hope of you driving home until they replace it for you.
Savvy type folks will politely refuse, pay the bill and drive off anywhere from a ½ mile or up to the next oil change interval is when they discover fallen off pan bolts, loose oil filters, double gaskets or various caps left off of other critical fluid reservoirs...
...or no oil was put in at all.
Pick your poison, roll your dice. But suffer not fools trying to breathe through a plugged fuel filter like it was a swizzle straw.
