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Does anyone here actually follow to the letter the Honda recommended servicing schedule for their cars?
I was in today getting an oil change (I'm at 30K km), which I've been doing roughly every 8K or 4 months as they recommend and looking at the board in the service dept. they recommend this 'Type C' service at 32K which is almost $200 and the details are mostly inspect this, inspect that, seems like a big waste of money!

I didn't do the 'Type B' service at 16K because the only thing extra besides the Oil change that you got for your $70 was wheel rotation and 'brake inspection' and I had just put my new rims and rubber on so I didn't need the wheels rotated, so I just got the oil changed.

Any opionions?

 
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dont bother with those package.
they dont change anything or top anything up
all they do is INSPECT and after they INSPECT they will tell u this need to be replace..it's recommended for your safty blah blah blah

i honestly tell u i do my own maintenance and i havent done a single package from honda since i bought my car new in 2001.

i changed my oil at the dealer 3 times and i never went back. i buy my own oil now at cost and go to my dad's friend garage and change it and they do way better job inspecting my cars and charge a fraction of what honda charges

just my 2 cents

 
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Ya I figured if anything actually needed work and was not warranty I would not take it to Honda, I'm only taking it there for oil changes cause they actually are pretty cheap (Crappy tire charged me like $50+tax because they had to use single bottles of 5w20 oil) and it would be better to have records from someone at least until warranty runs out to prove that I actually did get the oil changed, whereas changing it yourself you dont have anything, just in case anything ever happened.

$200 is a lot of money for just inspections. Just about any non-dealership garage will inspect your brakes or anything else just about for free.

 
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ya screw honda service...what a rip off
DIY is da way to go and dont't let strangers open your hood