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Originally Posted by Resurrection
Do people follow the scheduled maintenance or is that a rip off?
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Scheduled maintenance, yes I follow that, including the once a year hit of $250 or so for the "annual tune up", only because I can confirm the work needed against the manufacturers recommendations. If Mazda says "replace all these filters and tighten hoses at 145k" in the maintenance guide on their site I have no reason to not do it.
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Originally Posted by MoneyGuy
I recently had my RAV4 in for service and they sent me home with a list of over $2,000 of stuff they said I needed done. I emailed the list to my home mechanic (he's licensed and teaches auto mechanics at a high school) who knows my vehicle and said that about $700 was important so that's what we did. I don't trust dealerships.
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This is where I have zero trust for the dealership as well, it seems no matter what's being done they seem to find an additional $200-$250 worth of work that "we can take care of today..." on every visit.
But after being told on one visit that our timing belt was at the end of it's life, and then being told on the next visit it looked fine... well I have a hard time trusting the dealership on the actual condition of my particular car.