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Originally Posted by PollosHermanos
I'm curious if anyone else has gone a-la-carte.
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This is exactly what I've done from day one in my Forester. During the Powertrain warranty period, I did some things myself and usually went to the dealer and read off the things to them that I wanted them to do. A few times I went to a Subaru specialty shop (AZP Installs), but my dealer doesn't have dozens of unnecessary add-ons so their prices aren't too bad (and I used "Subaru bucks" ((RIP)) at the dealer).
By having the dealer do some of the maintenance, I felt that it helped my case when they convinced SoA to cover a turbo failure at 62k miles. The dealer had noted in my file that I had concerns about smoke before the 60k mile warranty was up.
So regardless of who does your maintenance, I would always have maintenance done a-la-carte and only have the dealer (or independent shop) do what is recommended per your warranty booklet. Some of the dealer or independent shop recommendations outside of the warranty booklet
might be a good idea, but they should present a very good case to you as to why they are recommending them. Another NJ dealer recommends a battery re-conditioning as part of their 6k mile maintenance which is complete nonsense. That dealer has so many unnecessary add-ons it's sad that people are paying for their services.
P.S. - If you did a used oil analysis and saw the high silicon from the dirt that the K&N is letting in, you might want an OEM filter.
