file.newsgroup.cars.101672 Maven / Gradle / Ivy
From: [email protected] (Doug Zolmer)
Subject: Re: $ 80 SVX OIL CHANGE
In article , [email protected] (Donald Wan) writes:
|> My friend brought a subaru SVX recently. I had drove it for couples times and I
|> think its a great car, esp on snow. However when she took it to a local Subaru
|> dealer for a oil change, the bill came out to be about 80 dollars. The dealer
|> told us it is because to change the oil filter on a SVX it is necessary to
|> disassemble a metal cover under the engine and that took an hour of labour.
|> At first, we think we are being ripped off so she phone to a dealer in Toronto
|> but found out the they are charging roughly the same price. So is there any
|> SVX owner out there that has the same problem ? And if the oil change story is
|> true, then the engineer of Subaru looks pretty stubid to me. By the way, the car
|> looks great.
|>
Labour prices for car service are very expensive in Toronto compared to other
parts of Ontario. For example, there are places in Ottawa that still charge
"only" $40/hour. I've seen a couple of places charging $60/hour. The cheapest
I've heard in Toronto is $70/hour.
|> SWD Wan.
|>
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