Re: What's my dealer smoking?

[cobram@juno.com (. .)]

Spiros Bouas wrote:

> I called my dealer asking for a quote on my 90 coupe's 150,000 
>service interval. He said he'll change all fluids, do inspection,
>change oil and filter... and it'll run me $1000...!!

> Am I missing something here gang?

Typical dealer. I was looking at a 500SEL a friend wants to 
buy, while going through the receipts I found one from 
an MB dealer in NC dated about four years ago,  they charged over
$1000.00 to change the fanbelts. Each belt was itemized with the labor
straight out of the book.  Problem is...you have to take 
all the belts off anyway to get to the first belt, but
the dealership added labor for each belt as if it were 
being changed by itself.  Not to mention the absurd cost
they had down for the belts.  They probably used the 
screwdriver trick, if they did it takes about 10min, $1000.00
for ten minutes work, gotta love it.  

BCNU,

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