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$20? The6.5 quarts of synthetic oil for my car are $40, then the filter, o-ring for the filter, new gasket for the drain plug, etc. that's all around $60 before I start.
HA, my beatervan has 280k miles on it, it gets the cheapest oil and filter I can find,
usually Walmart.
I just paid $95 for one done on my 19 Silverado at my friend’s shop. 8 quarts of synthetic 0W-20. I pay around $200 at dealer for my other vehicle. I used to do them myself in the past when I could walk the used oil across the street from my shop to my mechanic friend’s said shop where they used it to heat it in the winters. Now I would have to do it at home, then transport oil, etc…no thanks.
Before the Covid pandemic, even in early 2020, I was paying $19.99 plus fees at a WalMart auto center. With filter, oil disposal fee, and tax it came to just under $22. No appointment needed, just leave your vehicle, go shopping, and in under an hour, even on Saturday, you are out of there. Unfortunately, that WalMart auto center is now permanently closed, thanks to the pandemic and the retail havoc it caused. Now I usually go to Pep Boys, or sometimes a local garage, and the bill is usually about $75, give or take a few dollars.
I pay just under $100 for an oil change on my 2014 BMW at a local specialist. The dealer charges about $150 for one.
My 2015 Passat has been right around $100 at the dealer. I did the last one at home and it ran about $70 just for the materials - Mobil 1 and the OEM filter.
On the 2012 CR-V, semi-synthetic changes at the dealership have been around $60 since 2019 and the latest was as Valvoline for $70.
The local mechanic I use for general repairs runs $100/hour for labor so even there, an oil change is close to $75.
One remedy is to ditch the 3000 mile interval that they put on a sticker. 5000 miles is pretty safe. Another twist in the equation is topping off between oil changes, sometimes as much as by 2 quarts. Would that extend the oil change interval?
Fluid kit's a new on me too. Other that that, sounds like you're getting a good deal since the price of oil itself is $40. Unless the oil change place is using cheap oil and just wiping off the outside of your filter. Such things have been know to happen.
This is why I do my own, since I've known main dealerships to fill a service history book, without even doing the services. And known the people that did it, then sold the parts they'd saved, to friends.
There's also the time and bother saved, since a service only takes about twenty minutes for me. Is messy though.
I pay a little over $100 at the local GM dealership for full synthetic (8 qt), filter, and tire rotation.
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