I don't know what you meant by "recommended", not such a thing..dealer will charge you by the book which as recomended services will be SEVERAL thousand dollars all the way to 100.000 miles, don't do it n they will play games with original owner if something go wrong and owner didn't follow 'recommended" schedule by THEM which mean the 10/100k is a propaganda gimmick, sorry whoever bought a hyundai thinking IF THEY GIVE 10 YEARS 100k miles MUST BE A GOOD CAR better off buying any brand n extended warrranty..don't take me wrong, this cars are good as the other BUT they play hard ball when THEY have no record* of such with THEM
follow their schedule n your hyundai became a very expensive car..better off with extended if you want piece of mind..I don't.
DYS"s keep your receipts...sarcasm here
* want more gimmick? if maintenance record is important, WTH they drop the 10/100k once orig owner sell/trade the car?..all fancy BS
don't take me lightly, I had bought quite a few showroom cars, only went back for recalls/under warranty issues, saved enough money to buy my next car by DYS maintenance.
"recomeded" is the hook to grab your keys n drive you nuts with, mostly, unnecesary "services"...use common sense n enjoy ANY car
How do you know your timing belt's going? My 2000 is at 107k, I bought it at 90k, and received no maintenence records from the previous owner, so I have no idea when it was last done. I assume it was done at some point though, considering the car's been in the shop several times since I bought it, and the mechanics have never mentioned anything about it needing to be replaced.
Is there anyway to estimate how old the belt is, or when it's about to need to be replaced?
That's nothing - when I took it in they wanted $900+ for everything!
I took it to a different shop, got an oil change got the coolant flushed and had them check everything else, but he's running fine.
My dealership wants $155 to hook up a BG machine to clean intake system and injectors as part of my 45k sevice.
They say it's part of scheduled maint., but I don't see it listed in my owner's manual.
Your thoughts ?
Thanks
I'm not going to knock it, as I make a lot of money off of those services. But, I won't tell you it's necessary, as it's really not. Look at your trottle body. Do you have a lot of black carbon on it? If not, you really don't need this service...
I got my 30,000 mile service done. I had already changed the engine air filter. After looking over the list, I had the following things done:
- Oil change
- Tire rotation
- AT fluid flush with SP-III
- Radiator coolant flush
- Standard inspections that come with oil change
Total was $180 including tax. The package of recommended (by them) service would have totaled $330 + tax. We went through it line-by-line and figured out that the only service items in there that are recommended by the owners manual were the things I had done... so that's all they did.
got quoted 325 for 30k mile service at local Mitsubishi dealership. the hyundai dealership wanted almost 500 bux F that man. car has 28K so i still have some time.
Got quoted $525 for the 60k and $305 for the timing belt by the two dealers in my area. They said the total would be roughly 900 - 1000 with taxes and disposal, 8 - 9 hr job. I'm hoping I can learn some things on here and do them myself. I'm familiar with my car, but the Elantra is my fiance's and I've never worked on it before...
I pay zero attention to what dealer's suggest. I do what the manufacturer recommends and I do it myself at home, using the factory service manual.
My brother had free oil changes on his Elantra, so I used to take it to the dealer for him. They once told me his in-cabin filter was, "very dirty and in immediate need of replacing" about 2 days after I had already replaced it. I asked the service writer if the mechanic had actually looked at it and he said, "it says here that it's very dirty, so he must have". I told him that I did it two days prior and that it's not dirty. He asked the tech and came back and said that the tech just assumed it must be very dirty because they had never done it.
This is why I will NEVER pay a dealer to do anything to a car. Warranty work, fine... but that's it.
What's even worse is when they charge you for filters, and then never change them. I had this happen with a cabin filter and a fuel filter. They both were supposedly changed (and I paid for them) at a 40k service. I changed the cabin filter about a year later, and it was unbelievably filthy - no way it gets that dirty in a year in my driving conditions. At 78k, I had a catastrophic fuel system failure, which ultimately cost over a grand. The dealer (different dealer, different state) replaced the fuel filter, and showed me the clogged old one he removed. It had a date of 030500, which coincided with the build date of the car. So obviously, it had been on the car forever, and there was no fuel filter replaced at 40k as per the invoice.
It's crap like this that gives the honest dealers (and there are some) a bad rep. BTW, this was NOT a Hyundai dealer.
not really. i changed mine at 30,000 and the 3rd plug was worn.
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