Toyota Servicing - WTF

[DBR]

Yeah, the overriding workscopes are covered in the "A" and "B" service schedules that are in the owners' service book. In fact if your dealer knows their stuff that's all they shoould need.

 

I pulled out the items that are not serviced at 9000 mile intervals because (a) it makes it easier to see the data all in front of you that way, (b) it makes it simpler to see which services are truly the same, so as to know what to expect price-wise in the future and © because some dealers either forget the extra* bits or like to charge twice for them.

*I hesitate to call them "extras", because they shouldn't be treated as additional items in the service, rather inclusive items at non-regular intervals, if that makes any sense.

 

It's worth noting that this service schedule applies to ALL Toyota models of similar model year. The handbook even makes reference to changing the "transfer case oil", which only applies to 4WD vehicles. Therefore it shouldn't be rocket science for a Toyota dealer to know what is and isn't included in the price because they'll be pricing up services like this day in, day out, regardless of how many Supras come through their doors.

As for tuners versus dealers, you can forget about Toyota being interested in any mods you may have done to your car, special treatment you feel it deserves. Plenty of people have posted up in here that they have had issues with getting dealers to use anything other than standard fluids. And in all fairness, who could expect them to? Anyone who has read the workshop manual knows that every single job you could ever want to do to a Supra is spelled out step by step. As long as you can weild a spanner and have access to a pillar lift and the proper parts, a trained monkey could do most of the work. No matter how much it means to us, in the final analysis, a Supra is just another car and for routine service work pretty much anyone could follow the instructions and do the job. It's not in Toyota's interestes to know all the ins and out and foibles of thts mod or that oil. Their traning costs would be tremendous.

 

 

 

My biggest problem with Toyota, therefore, is that although they offer a "lowest common denominator" level of service, they charge top dollar for it, but that's just main dealers for you.

 

On the flip side, if you take your car to a specialist, hopefully they will understand more about the actual ins and out of that make and model if they deal with a lot of them. Also, because they are non-franchised they usually charge less. But I refer you back to my own rip-off tale above. When I asked a garage with a labour rate of half of Toyota's to actually do every last thing in the service work scope I got hit with a bill that was more than Toyota.

 

With Toyota, you're paying for the name. That's all there is to it.

 

 

 

cheers guys decided i am sticking with good old trustworthy Phoenix, Digsy thanks for all the help

[BURT]

Again as many have said dealer sevice history doesnt mean alot any more, and defo would not fool anybody in the know into buying it just because of the dealer history... use pheonix matey.. thay know there stuff bud, i can vouch first hand for that, i have never had so much faith in any other garage before pheonix. only prob you may have is the waiting list lol