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Old 10-14-2019, 02:24 PM   #1
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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

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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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Old 10-14-2019, 03:05 PM   #2
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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?


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Old 10-14-2019, 03:47 PM   #3
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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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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.
Oh, heck, let em have it for 6 hours.

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".



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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.
LOL If book time was that lax when I worked on motorcycles I would have never quit.

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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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 (1 hour)
Replace air cleaner element (.25 hour)
Inspect cooling system (.25 hour)
Replace brake fluid / clutch fluid (MT model only) (3 hours)
Inspect fuel lines and connections (.25 hour)

Inspect V-belt (.25 hour)
Inspect automatic transmission fluid (.25 hour)
Replace engine oil and oil filter (.5 hour)



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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LOL If book time was that lax when I worked on motorcycles I would have never quit.

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
Hell, I can flush my brakes with a length of rubber hose and a Mason jar -


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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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How much sucking does it take to do quickly
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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
It’s because it might take 2hours to even get on a lift and another 1-2 before someone works on it. Also sometimes they say 6hours and if it takes 4 your ecstatic but if they say 4 and it takes 5 your going to be mad.

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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It’s because it might take 2hours to even get on a lift and another 1-2 before someone works on it. Also sometimes they say 6hours and if it takes 4 your ecstatic but if they say 4 and it takes 5 your going to be mad.

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.
I thought they were just going to "inspect automatic transmission fluid".




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