aja8888
Moderator Emeritus
We bought a used Lexus 300 sedan (1999) out of an estate a few years ago with 37,000 original miles on it. (nice find!)
The file of receipts that they gave us had 17 oil changes tickets, three new batteries, a replacement back up camera ($450.00) and a bunch of $300+ "inspections".
The old gent started taking the car there right out of warranty @ 24K miles. They were dinging him an oil change every 1,000 miles from what it looked like (what a waste of good oil!). And the batteries? They should have been adjusted for warranty as they were over a span of a five years.
The real dinger was the replacement back up camera.....the car was not equipped with one and in 1999 they were not even sold yet!
Our cars? If the car is under warranty, I use an independent shop for oil changes and they stamp the maintenance record book. Something breaks, back to the dealer. Periodic (interval) inspections...I do them.
For cars out of warranty....I do the basic maintenance work myself.
The file of receipts that they gave us had 17 oil changes tickets, three new batteries, a replacement back up camera ($450.00) and a bunch of $300+ "inspections".
The old gent started taking the car there right out of warranty @ 24K miles. They were dinging him an oil change every 1,000 miles from what it looked like (what a waste of good oil!). And the batteries? They should have been adjusted for warranty as they were over a span of a five years.
The real dinger was the replacement back up camera.....the car was not equipped with one and in 1999 they were not even sold yet!
Our cars? If the car is under warranty, I use an independent shop for oil changes and they stamp the maintenance record book. Something breaks, back to the dealer. Periodic (interval) inspections...I do them.
For cars out of warranty....I do the basic maintenance work myself.