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Went in recently to the Acura dealer for my annual service, and for $440 I got an oil change, tire rotation, brake fluid change, engine filter change, and hvac filter change.

Then the service advisor tried to sell me on getting my 100k tune-up at 86k miles for another $2000. I said no thanks, the Maintenance Minder isn't showing it's time for that.

Then he tried to tell me that my Michelin CrossClimate2 tires with less than 40k on them were almost worn out, even though the report from their own technician showed them as in the green. But if I'd said yes that would have been another thousand dollars. Sigh.

Here's a guy who has gotten 85,000 miles on his CC2 tires. I'm hoping to make it at least to 70k, knock on wood.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P3YMcZhCgRs

I just had our RDX in too. Oil change and brake fluid flush (first one at 5 years old). I did the cabin and engine air filters myself last summer (and man, the engine one was a ridiculous pain to to). since it was only about 4K miles at most since the last service, I passed on the rotation (and the check over report said all 4 were at 7/32). That was $280 with taxes and fees

should be a while (45k miles, sitting at 28k now) until anything else expensive comes up (differential and trans fluid changes)