Let’s talk dealer service rip-offs

No, it just proves that some dealers (most) are best avoided.

 

IMO, It's only a rip off if you don't agree to something. If you do agree, and then later decide to do your homework, well then that's on the customer.
A rip off to me, is when we both agree you are providing A for $X, and you instead give me B for $Y.

 

Having been a tech at Toyota I can say you are better off doing all your maintenance yourself. They tend to hire the cheapest labor possible in the lube bays.

 

Took the truck in year's ago for front/rear diff and transfer case gear oil changed out... got charged for 11qts when it takes 6. Brought it up with the service manager and all he could come up with was... well, sometimes they take more. I haven't been back.

 

It depends on your dealer. They will rotate my stock size Duratracs as part of Toyota Care but would not look at my axle (even if I paid out of pocket) to investigate a noise in 4hi because I have 6112 Coilovers. So, YMMV, but I think most dealers don't want to deal with anything outside of the ordinary, even if you're paying out of pocket for it.

 

Swollen nuts...lubricated shafts...ya'll need Jesus.

 

Dealers make their money in the service department not in sales. When sales are slow it's the service department that keeps the place afloat.

 

What jack do you have? I need to get one to lift my 99 Taco and 2021.

Thanks!

 

Harbor Freight for floor jacks. (3- 3 1/2 ton should suffice)

 

The dealer I worked at rotated the tires regardless if they were aftermarket or not. The only reason they would give not to is if you have keyed lug nuts and no key in the vehicle.

 

Daytona brand, not Pittsburgh from HF

 

thats fucking bullshit- Just cause you dont have factory wheels/tires does not mean your toyota care is void

 

Thanks!

 

Reminder: your service advisor is a commissioned salesman

 

I just want to make sure it goes high enough to lift the whole side of the truck and do 2 wheels at once.

 

Yep....

 

You also want to make sure you dont die...
Get Daytona....not Pittsburgh.

This...get this.

 

If I was buying a truck to keep it stock it wouldn't have been a tacoma

 

True...thats how you get F'd in the A