wjt

The dealership always tells me that I have to take the 2016 Lexus NX200t in every 5k miles. Every 5k Is a minor service, tire rotation and every 10k is oil change, service and tire rotation. Do I really have to come in every 5k miles? It cost about 100 for all the 5k services and 350 for the 10k oil change service.

Tmymck

Freds430

At 5,000 miles it is a tire rotation. Every 10,000 miles an oil change and tire rotation is needed. At the Lexus dealership this should be less than $100. Every 30,000 miles the brake fluid needs to be changed and again about $100. Every 20,000 miles change the air and cabin filters. This combined takes five minutes and the can be bought on line at Lexus Parts World for $18. The cabin air filter can be bought at Walmart for $18, It is the Fram Fresh Breeze #10285 with carbon and baking soda to filter the air. Wiper blade inserts again can be bought at Lexus Parts World for $20 for both refills and takes five minutes to replace. You are done until 100,000 miles. At Lexus Parts World use cl5 in the promo code for 10% discount. If you go in and ask for the 10,000, 20,000 30,000 maintenance you will be paying big bucks for a lot more items you do not need checked and inspected. Once a year replace the key fob http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_nkw=car+batterycr2032. Keep receipts for everything. I take my oil filter and 5 quart jug of Mobil 1purchased at Walmart for $24 to my local Toyota dealer and they charge me $20 labor.

lesz

There is absolutely no reason why you need to go to the Lexus dealer for service, and $100 for 5000 mile service intervals and $350 for 10,000 mile service intervals are prices that i wold consider to be outrageous.

For the 15 years or so that I've owned Lexus vehicles, I've had maintenance done at the local Toyota dealer. For an oil change, I pay $40 (with a $10 coupon) for the same full synthetic oil and filter that the Lexus dealer would be using, and the charge for a tire rotation is $10. When the Toyota dealer does the service, they do the same inspections and checks that the Lexus dealer would do at no charge. The 30,000 mile service intervals would cost about $125 more than other 10,000 mile intervals because they call for replacing the brake fluid and changing the air filters. Still, for the first 50,000 mile service at the Toyota dealer, I will pay a total of less than $500, which isn't much more than your Lexus dealer wants for a single service visit at one of the 10,000 intervals.

I've also found that, on the rare occasions when I've needed out-of-warranty repairs, the cost of getting those repairs done at the Toyota dealer is typically less than half of what the Lexus dealer would charge.

The service departments at Lexus dealers seem to operate on the principle that, if people are willing to pay a premium price for a Lexus vehicle, they will be willing to pay through the nose for service. At the Toyota dealer, any parts needed will be the same parts that the Lexus dealer would use. The Toyota dealer has a very nice waiting area with big screen TVs, WiFi access, premium coffee, snacks, etc., About the only difference between how I'm treated at the Lexus dealer and the Toyota dealer is that, at the Toyota dealer, the loaner car that I'm given is likely to be a Camry or Avalon, instead of a ES or RX, but that is still a nice trade off for prices that are a fraction of what I would pay at the Lexus dealer.

GoHuskers

I do ALL my maintenance services myself (except the free ones). I enter these records into https://secure.drivers.lexus.com/lexusdrivers/history.

wjt