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Originally Posted by Skyline
That's a little high...but not totally crazy. I would not get too pissed off. You think 3/4 hr labor is excessive for an oil change? I'd bet that's the book rate. I would guess at a shop like that, they spend at least that amount of time checking the car over. And $108/hr is NOT bad for this area. Try BMW Manhattan...I'd bet the labor rate is significantly higher ($150/hr???) If you feel better about going to Jiffy Lube, and have a pimply faced kid with no training at all messing with your X5; have at it. You can probably get the same oil change for half that price...assuming they have the correct oil. Or do it yourself and save even more. The oil and filter prices are pretty much retail; go to a dealer and price those at the parts counter; our cars do not use cheap oil. You can not expect ANY shop to charge you Walmart prices for oil and filter.
Lots of quality places, BMW dealerships included, do oil changes at below actual retail cost to get you in the door. They are hoping to find other stuff wrong with your car to offset the cost. What you paid is full retail at Indy prices...nothing more. A Dealer with no special deals going on might charge even more.
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I usually do my own oil changes, heck for $75 I get the ECSTuning deal. I haven't gotten an oil change at a dealer or indy in a long time so the price to me was shocking. I also know what I am getting when I buy from ECS, unlike here I do not know what I got. My wife said they pumped the oil out of a red barrel with no markings on it into a gallon then measured with the dip stick as needed. She said she saw a yellow and green box and I guess that't the Mann filter. In a nutshell, I will continue to do my own damn oil changes and pay myself the labor rate in cognac.