sundance_gold

I finally took my car in for its 60k service. Its bad enought that the service package is $300.00 but the car needed (in addition):

-rear pads
-machining of the rear rotors
-replacement of clogged AC filter
-recommended removal of extreme carbon build up
-replacement of cracked front 'driving light'

I trust the place where I take my car and it was driving kinda sluggish when I took it in (and it performs much better now) but I was not expecting a list of pricey things like this.

If I had the dealer do all of this the price would be over $1,000.00 (total with 60K service) is this an anomaly or a sign of things to come with future maintenance--as the car ages?

Just curious thanks!

NJ_CLS_driver

I'm about 7000 past due on that service. I was told from the dealer it costs about 385

CLBean

That sucks...

The cars are pretty reliable as they age... I'm at 70k, and the car is still doing good... Most of my problems I had from the car before I bought it.

Sorry to hear that, but once you're done fixing those things next thing to change should be the waterpump/timing belt.

fuzzy02CLS

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Anything recommended by the dealer is just to make money. Run a can of Gumout fuel injection cleaner though the system. 1 can in a full tank of gas. The carbon should be taken care of. The AC filter you can do yourself, as well as buying, & replaceing the cracked road lamp.

CO-CL-S

I thought A/C filters were included in 60,000 service?

acura_service

The carbon buildup occurs in the egr ports - fuel doesn't get to that area, but maybe on the planet you come from, mechanic in a bottle will fix that

fuzzy02CLS

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acura_service
I guess by your name you work for them. Didn't mean to offend you. You can still take some carb cleaner & clean out the egr tube, as well as the TB.

fender4

please have one of your mechanics explain exactly what this carbon is on the egr ports?? scan in some pictures if you can....

2Sxy4YoMama

I am about 5k away from 60K.

dgracer

I actually asked Valencia Acura to do fuel filter and FI cleaner at 45k and they said I didnt need it! How about that, they turned down my money! I do get the trans fkuid done every 10k though but its cheap.

sundance_gold

thanks for all of your feedback.

acura_service

sorry to be so harsh, its just that we as a dealer do alot of research to try to have competative prices, too bad there are some out there that charge an arm and a leg, and give all of us a bad name, yes use some of the carb cleaner or fuel injection cleaner and a brush to get out the heavy stuff

but to keep the injectors themselves clean, i always reccomend techron - its a chevron product

thholr

No kidding prices for 60K service I just had done , ranged anywhere from 300 to 500 dollars. It is crazy . I ended up going to the 300 dollar one since they are a kick butt dealer anyway , and told them to skip the tranny flush ( since they just put a new tranny in 4 K miles ago ) and oil change ( do those myself. ) . Got out of there paying $175, which was great. They didnt find anything else wrong . But you never know every car is different. I mean the cracked driving lights are like $75 a piece plus labor . So go figure . I have a small crack in mine, but not worth replacing in my opinion.

Doc.Booty

I'm about 3k from 60,000. Course, i need to schedule an appointment to get my struts replaced (grr... damn mom driving my car), and i might just wait until the 60k to do that.