laobo979

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125 that a case of amsoil to do two oil change for me.

IonSpray35

My oil changes at the dealership are 49.95, for parts and labor. And I think that itself is high.

Evitzee

Ok, if you were running a business with all the costs involved what do you think a fair price for an oil change would be? $10, $20, $30 .... ? $50 for oil/filter/labor + whatever profit he can squeeze out of that price seems very fair to me. If you think that is too high why are you driving a Lexus? Isn't that just an overpriced Toyota designed vehicle which surely can't be worth the price you paid? And why not do the change yourself and save the $30 or so over the price of the oil/filter?

IS250TW

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I think labor prices varies from state to state
I went on a road trip last year in my friends honda
done an oil change in a ny dealer for about 40 something

when we got to arizona and got another oil change we came out a bill of 20....lol

Ep350

For the peeps in cali and if your close to longo lexus. $72 bucks for an oil change if you guys didnt know. too lazy to do it myself. reasonable compared to oil changes in the hundreds IMO.

jnguyen87

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ive read so many horror stories about dealerships Messing up aftermarket wheels, scratching paint, taking things out they shouldnt be taking out i trust no dealership anymore. just do it myself and have some piece of mind. Im even debating if i want to take my car in for the recalls. I have aggressive fitment wheels, last thing i want is some service tech to curb them or something.

KillaIS250

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Thanks guys for all the responses. Honestly, i would do it myself but two things are stopping me 1) my Home owners association prohibits working on or washing your car at home (on my own property) 2) Its a CPO and i'd rather have Lexus do the service while its under warranty.

I'll try calling a couple dealerships and see what the labor rate is on an oil change. I'd rather just supply my own oil so i know whats going into the car.



For regular oil or for synthetic? Cuz that's about the normal price for a regular oil change, it would be cheap for synthetic.

Thinktwice

I think they charge $125 because of all of the little additional "inspections" they do and the car wash they give you. It's really silly because all I want is a simple oil change with them noting my service record plain and simple.

Kurtz

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Then ask for that.

At my dealer it's $150 for the "10k mile service" (which is just an oil change).

It's $50 if you ask for just an oil change.

Gregz_IS

Do you take your own bacon and eggs to Denny's and ask them to cook it for you too??



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KillaIS250

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Very funny.

That's completely different. There is no separate "cooking only" rate at Denny's is there??

The Lexus dealership DOES have a labor rate for any service. If i can bring in my own (and better IMO) oil and its at least $20 cheaper then what they are going to charge me..why not?

Kurtz

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The first of several problems with your analogy is either way you'd be eating at Denny's...

Gregz_IS

very true.




OK ...how about this?

Do you take your own steak to Ruth Chris steak house?

KillaIS250

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Anyways.....

EP350, i called Longo Lexus. They charge about $92 before tax on a synthetic oil change with Mobil 1. If i do labor only they charge me ~$40 + tax.

Using my own parts would cost me $40.50 + 40 and tax so probably about $85
If they do everything themselves gonna be a bit over $100 @ $92 + tax...
So i save $15 using my own parts

I think what i'll do is just have them do the labor until i go through the 2 cases i already bought. After that i'll just fork over the extra $15

Longo's customer service is ridiculously nice btw

robertrios

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I have prepaid maint. so i dont have to worry about this yet but what oil have they been using on my car? I like the idea of bringing your own and have the dealer do it that way there is a record of the scheduled maint. I bought my SC430 and there were no oil change records for years but the owner said they did it at a small local place but I have to just take their word for it. I guess they could have saved receipts but lets say you do it yourself...what are you going to do save all the receipts from when you buy oil? Thats a PITA plus they still have to take your word for it when you say it went in that specific car. I think doing it at the dealer will eventually help with re-sale value but if your gonna ride the car into the ground it dosent really matter!