Cost of Diesel Oil Change at Dealership?
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Cost of Diesel Oil Change at Dealership?
Hi everyone. Question? What’s the cost of a 5K Diesel Oil Change? Dealership is telling me $450? Is that possible? I’m totally perplexed 🤔..... When I had my VW Touareg it was $140-$150, why so much for CD? Thoughts?
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yep. I think it was between 350-400 the one time I did it. VW was 100 until they decided they should be 200 because of the Porsche badge, so now its all do it myself. Plus its quicker than driving to a dealership and back. Its the easiest vehicle I have ever changed oil on other than a 240Z
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The dealer where I purchased mine wanted over $600 for the service!
I take it to a local place for $100, which includes bulk synthetic and a car wash.
I purchase adblue from Amazon and add it myself at home.
I take it to a local place for $100, which includes bulk synthetic and a car wash.
I purchase adblue from Amazon and add it myself at home.
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Intermediate
I had the same reaction when my wife took her CD in for its first oil change. It's just an oil change, right?
I now buy a filter from my Porsche dealer, buy Mobil 1 wherever it is cheapest and then pay $15 to my local mechanic for the oil change. Put the AdBlue in myself. Probably $80-100 all in.
Seth
'16 Cayenne Diesel
'09 911 C2S
I now buy a filter from my Porsche dealer, buy Mobil 1 wherever it is cheapest and then pay $15 to my local mechanic for the oil change. Put the AdBlue in myself. Probably $80-100 all in.
Seth
'16 Cayenne Diesel
'09 911 C2S
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Burning Brakes
I had read a thread within the past year that had most dealership oil changes from $300-400. Too much for me when the oil change kits are like $87.50-shipped in one day to me from iDparts.com.
https://www.idparts.com/oil-change-k...nb-p-1460.html
https://www.idparts.com/oil-change-k...nb-p-1460.html
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I had the same reaction when my wife took her CD in for its first oil change. It's just an oil change, right?
I now buy a filter from my Porsche dealer, buy Mobil 1 wherever it is cheapest and then pay $15 to my local mechanic for the oil change. Put the AdBlue in myself. Probably $80-100 all in.
Seth
'16 Cayenne Diesel
'09 911 C2S
I now buy a filter from my Porsche dealer, buy Mobil 1 wherever it is cheapest and then pay $15 to my local mechanic for the oil change. Put the AdBlue in myself. Probably $80-100 all in.
Seth
'16 Cayenne Diesel
'09 911 C2S
You should cherish your local mechanic. Take him out to dinner. Pay his bill for the Snap-On payment this month. Treat him like a God!
I don't know anyone anywhere who would do an oil change on anything (snow-blower, lawn-mower, whatever) for $15 flat labor charge. He's gotta put the car up on the lift, drop the bottom belly pan, drain and DISPOSE of the oil, clean things up, change the filter, DISPOSE of the old filter, then reverse everything.. All for $15? When you brought the parts and he made nothing on them? That is the bargain of a lifetime. Are you guys related? That could make a difference.
That takes my private mechanic about 40-45 minutes to do. I generally pay around $75 labor, more if I ask him to leave it up for a while so I can browse underneath looking for things to obsess over.
I would guess your mechanic isn't really a businessman at heart and you should make use of his bargain prices before he realizes he's paying you to change your oil. .
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Seth,
You should cherish your local mechanic. Take him out to dinner. Pay his bill for the Snap-On payment this month. Treat him like a God!
I don't know anyone anywhere who would do an oil change on anything (snow-blower, lawn-mower, whatever) for $15 flat labor charge. He's gotta put the car up on the lift, drop the bottom belly pan, drain and DISPOSE of the oil, clean things up, change the filter, DISPOSE of the old filter, then reverse everything.. All for $15? When you brought the parts and he made nothing on them? That is the bargain of a lifetime. Are you guys related? That could make a difference.
That takes my private mechanic about 40-45 minutes to do. I generally pay around $75 labor, more if I ask him to leave it up for a while so I can browse underneath looking for things to obsess over.
I would guess your mechanic isn't really a businessman at heart and you should make use of his bargain prices before he realizes he's paying you to change your oil. .
You should cherish your local mechanic. Take him out to dinner. Pay his bill for the Snap-On payment this month. Treat him like a God!
I don't know anyone anywhere who would do an oil change on anything (snow-blower, lawn-mower, whatever) for $15 flat labor charge. He's gotta put the car up on the lift, drop the bottom belly pan, drain and DISPOSE of the oil, clean things up, change the filter, DISPOSE of the old filter, then reverse everything.. All for $15? When you brought the parts and he made nothing on them? That is the bargain of a lifetime. Are you guys related? That could make a difference.
That takes my private mechanic about 40-45 minutes to do. I generally pay around $75 labor, more if I ask him to leave it up for a while so I can browse underneath looking for things to obsess over.
I would guess your mechanic isn't really a businessman at heart and you should make use of his bargain prices before he realizes he's paying you to change your oil. .
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I had the same reaction when my wife took her CD in for its first oil change. It's just an oil change, right?
I now buy a filter from my Porsche dealer, buy Mobil 1 wherever it is cheapest and then pay $15 to my local mechanic for the oil change. Put the AdBlue in myself. Probably $80-100 all in.
Seth
'16 Cayenne Diesel
'09 911 C2S
I now buy a filter from my Porsche dealer, buy Mobil 1 wherever it is cheapest and then pay $15 to my local mechanic for the oil change. Put the AdBlue in myself. Probably $80-100 all in.
Seth
'16 Cayenne Diesel
'09 911 C2S
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Intermediate
Seeing some of the responses to my mechanic quote for $15 for an oil change - I'll give the full story (and hopefully not bring on the wrath of Porsche owners for not being fanatical about where I get my car serviced!).
I use my local Firestone for regular service on my wife's Cayenne. I figure the thing is basically a VW under the hood. I buy a lot of tires from them (5 cars in the family) so they are pretty flexible with me bringing in my own parts and don't mind doing cheap and quick oil changes. When our first Cayenne Diesel needed brakes, I bought pads, discs and Porsche brake fluid from Suncoast and then had Firestone put it all in - I don't remember the exact number but am thinking all in it was $400 less than the dealer quoted.
For something specialized, I would go to the Porsche dealer (I do take my 911 to the dealer).
Anyway, now my secret is out. Wondering what responses I'll get...
Seth
'16 Cayenne Diesel
'09 911 C2S
I use my local Firestone for regular service on my wife's Cayenne. I figure the thing is basically a VW under the hood. I buy a lot of tires from them (5 cars in the family) so they are pretty flexible with me bringing in my own parts and don't mind doing cheap and quick oil changes. When our first Cayenne Diesel needed brakes, I bought pads, discs and Porsche brake fluid from Suncoast and then had Firestone put it all in - I don't remember the exact number but am thinking all in it was $400 less than the dealer quoted.
For something specialized, I would go to the Porsche dealer (I do take my 911 to the dealer).
Anyway, now my secret is out. Wondering what responses I'll get...
Seth
'16 Cayenne Diesel
'09 911 C2S