First 5,000-Mile Service Not Cheap - 2015 Nissan Murano Long-Term Road Test
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First 5,000-Mile Service Not Cheap - 2015 Nissan Murano Long-Term Road Test
Three months after joining the long-term fleet, our 2015 Nissan Murano required a 5,000-mile service. We took it to Puente Hills Nissan for an oil change and tire rotation.
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Excellent service at the local Nissan dealer.
And yes, I could probably google that info, but I think the post needs to present it.
I agree with Cameron that I'd be shocked to receive that bill for an oil change and tire rotation.
All on my own I'm surprised to hear that a tire rotation would be $25 by itself!
All in all, very good post; thanks, Cameron.
The 2015 Murano takes 4.9 quarts of conventional 5W30. With filter, it's $17.00 in parts. Cameron paid way too much for a conventional oil change and it's not the fault of the car. She really should have called around.
$90 is obviously a lot of money compared to what it would be elsewhere but with a going labor rate of likely $130-$150 an hour you are looking at less than half an hours labor. At the risk of being the devil's advocate: even Stokes is trying to pay their employees, cover their overhead and make some profit at the end of the day.
No, thanks. I'll just do it myself...
That being said it seems funny to compare what you can buy the parts for at Walmart with what a professional shop charges for them and the labor. Do people do that with restaurants? This food is only worth $2.50 and you are charging me $12???? This $8 steak is $45??? If you learned to sew you could make your clothes for a fraction of the cost of them in a store.
I'd say pretty much anything you can do yourself that you pay someone else to do is going to look like a ripoff. Especially if it isn't a one man mobile operation with next to no overhead.
You really have to ask first... Some BMW dealers charge $139 for a 7 quart synthetic change.. my dealer charges $79.95. Of course, it comes with a laundry list of needed repairs/service... lol.
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Time and time again some one comes along and writes an article preaching about what they think service should cost when really they don't have any clue about what it really costs to try and run a shop. But that's not new, that kind of stuff has been going on for years and that has played a major role in thinning the technician talent pool. Anytime you see another consumer post about a repair issue requiring multiple visits to be dealt with you really should be proud of yourselves for contributing to the situation. About the only thing missing would be you letting that poster know how glad you are to have saved a penny at their expense. But wait, that would require your coming to grips with the correlation of the two events, that's not going to happen. But you can keep trashing the shops and techs any chance you get, or else simply make up a reason to do so even if a real one isn't readily available. Meanwhile, everyone will continue to discourage their kids from becoming techs in order to keep them from wearing that target you to take aim at.
BTW, if you ever decide to take a different approach and start supporting the techs that you need the shops to have, it's going to take some twenty years just to try and undo the damage to the trade and its people that topics like this one have wrought.
Now isn't it a little disturbing that vehicles can get serviced at the dealership and the pricing pressure displayed in threads like this one result in them potentially using the wrong products?
It is a myth that you can look at an SAE grade such as 5W20, 5W30, 0W30, 10W40 and reliably judge the kinematic and dynamic viscosities. A product rated for 5W30 that is dexos approved is as thin as, if not thinner than a product sold as SAE 5W20 SN GF5. A 5W30 or a 0W30 approved for BMW's LL-01 is thicker than an SAE 10W40.