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30 month service takes 6 hours?
Just scheduled my 30 month service at my local dealership and they emailed back this morning to tell me this is a 6-7 hour service (they were following up since I had selected to wait at dealership during the service). What's going on in this service to make it take so long? I've done all my previous service at the same dealership and its never been more than 3 hours. This is for an AT. Here's what the dealership lists for the service:
30,000 Mile or 30 Month Maintenance Details: Perform tire rotation & inspection Replace air cleaner element Inspect cooling system Replace brake fluid / clutch fluid (MT model only) Inspect fuel lines and connections Inspect V-belt Inspect automatic transmission fluid Replace engine oil and oil filter |
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Sounds like an hour and a half job to me. If they wash it, another 15 minutes. How much are they charging you? humfrz |
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Maybe 6-7 hours to complete from the moment you drop it off, but not 6-7 hours for the actual work. We're talking an hour's worth, I think. Get a price quote.
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you can do 75% of that stuff yourself
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Heard back from the dealership with some more details, apparently for the 30k service "Subaru recommends a few things which we don't address very often. In this instance the most important thing they recommend is flushing out your brake fluid..." I don't have my manual in front of me to see the full maintenance schedule but they seem to think it really will take 6 hours.
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Reminds me of the story about this ol boy who worked in downtown NYC. Every day he would drop his car off at a shop near his work to have the oil changed. Finally the shop manager said to him "you don't really have to have the oil changed in this car every day". The man replied, I know that, but, it's a hell of a lot cheaper than paying for parking all day". humfrz |
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I can flush my brakes in about 20 minutes with a 50 dollar tool. Hell, I could do all that and change a throw out bearing in 6 hours |
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You will be paying flat rates at the dealer. My guess of charges above. You can 100% of that yourself. If you have any mechanical abilities. |
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Also a AT fluid drain/fill has a few additional steps compared to most fluid changes requiring a serious of steps to get the dash into trans temp mode and then doing the drain/fill at precisely 108F-115F. Still not that hard but does add some time. |
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