Dealer oil change pricing

[gunnellett]

I had Honda try to upsell me multiple times. One times they even lied. Told me that my CAF was extremely dirty. I told them I replaced it the night before I dropped it off. The look I got was like "Oh crap. We were caught!"

That's disappointing.

 

[SimpleSyrup]

It only looks good until you look at your car next time and find the rounded off drain bolt, and half the fasteners missing on your splash shield (assuming that they didn't throw away your splash shield).

You know the thing that I love about fast change oil shops is they will torque your drain plug to 70 foot pounds and your oil filter to 90 foot pounds and they do it for free.

It takes me a while to do that. You're really got to put some pressure on it. When you're laying on your back, trying to get 90 foot pound torque onto an oil filter, that's not easy. If I could pay someone $45 to do this for me, that's money in the bank. What's your time worth?

 

[Rust_Belt_Pete]

Ill pass, the dealer will break tabs on my cabin air filter housing trying to get to it to upsell me, damage/yank wires trying to get their air filter cover off trying to upsell me.

My independent mechanic? Yeah he is good to go.

 

[zzyzzx]

You know the thing that I love about fast change oil shops is they will torque your drain plug to 70 foot pounds and your oil filter to 90 foot pounds and they do it for free.

Last dealer installed spin on oil filter that I removed, I barely touched it and it came off.

 

[FZ1]

Just got an email from a local GMC dealer in San Diego CA. I do my own oil changes but I think this is a decent deal especially in CA.
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Gotta take that deal. Tell them up upfront you do not want an inspection. You want only the oil change.

 

[barkingspider]

Gotta take that deal. Tell them up upfront you do not want an inspection. You want only the oil change.

I can and actually enjoy changing the oil in my vehicles. Kinda therapeutic for me plus I know it will be done correctly, especially correct tightening of the filter and drain plugs

 

[nomas]

Of course service departments try to upsell you . That's Capitalism . I just say NO to anything I don't want and they walk away . It's not hard . Just try it .

 

[tired]

You know the thing that I love about fast change oil shops is they will torque your drain plug to 70 foot pounds and your oil filter to 90 foot pounds and they do it for free.

Having flashbacks to the first oil change I did on my truck after I bought it. As I went to take the oil filter off, I saw scratches on it from a wrench. Knew it was going to be a bear. I had to crank so hard with an oil filter wrench that it crunched it like an aluminum can. Just barely got it off. Did a full 360 degree turn with the wrench before it was loose enough I could unscrew it by hand.

When I did the transfer case and diffs, all of the plugs were way overtorqued. And they rounded the corners off of a few of them for free! All gaskets/crush washers had been reused.

I'll do everything I can for as long as I can.

 

[OilStainedNapkin]

6 quarts to boot

 

[tired]

We get coupons from time to time for $30-40 Mobil 1 oil changes from the Nissan dealer from time to time.

Got another one recently, and it's $45 now.

I have to say, I let them do it one time on my lady's car when I was living in a place with a small garage and much of my tools were in storage, and they didn't overtorque the drain plug, and I could unscrew the oil filter by hand. Kudos. Got lucky.

 

[anndel01]

Don't know how much oil changes are these days. I've been changing my own oil since the 70's.

 

[SimpleSyrup]

Last dealer installed spin on oil filter that I removed, I barely touched it and it came off.

Look at the fine print on the coupon:

"Offer good for up to 6 qts of 0W-20. Gasoline engines only. Diesel engines add'l fee. Oil filter more than dainty finger tight add'l fee."