Servicing a Honda at a Honda Dealership

[nugget666]

nothing wrong with ultratune i get genuine parts from there and get a good deal too. considering i do most of it myself there then my dad does the rest :P it helps when he works there.


but thats one expsensive service i would ask a few of your friends who know a bit about cars to help you on your next service will put a huige dent in what you have jsut payed.

[chicken8]

Hanny's is the only place i take my honda to

[.::F[L]Y::.]

Hanny's is the only place i take my honda to

amen to that!

Honda dealers are shithouse, why would you wanna take your honda there? usually your car is worked on by apprentices.

[panda[cRx]]

nothing wrong with ultratune i get genuine parts from there and get a good deal too. considering i do most of it myself there then my dad does the rest :P it helps when he works there.

i know both dealers and the 'cheaper' generic places have their good and bad workshops but we've been shown invoices and they've had stuff like "inspected tailshaft"... ok now that's nothing abnormal if we are talking an s2000 but it was a civic!! (for the slow people the civic doesnt have a tailshaft of it's fwd)

we've had other peoples bringing their cars back to us because they run like shit. then we look at the car and it's quite obvious the rocker cover hasn't even been off to do valve clearances at major services.

i've also never heard of a generic workshop changing dps fluid on a crv/hrv... then the owner comes back to us when their difff starts groaning. (some workshop told OH member 'yourfather' that his mums hrv needed a new dif that would cost $3k, when all it needed was a change of fluid costing all of about $39)

also had a workshop call "how often do you change the cambelt on the accord euro?"
"errr.....dude there IS NO CAMBELT on the euro, have you even had a look at the car? "

we also get these same workshops calling us and ask how to change cambelts, they also sublet all the stuff that is too hard for them to us

yeah dealers are a lil more expensive than a generic dealer but you are paying for genuine honda parts, specialist knowledge, tools and diagnostic equipment

so to sum it up i think u may get a cheaper service elsewhere but you wont get a better one. (however over the years i've heard lots of love for hannys but i cant speak for them coz i'm in melbourne)

[ek4-guy]

Ive always taken my car to Honda for servicing but after the last time never again will i take it to honda dealers.

My civic hadnt been driven for around 4 weeks so i took it to Bayside for a service. After that i drove it straight home where it sat for another week before i fitted new headers an exhaust, during this process the radiator hose was removed so before driving i cheaked and topped up the fluids.

When i opened the radiator cap i found nothing left on the underside of it but a small ring of rubber. I couldnt find any pieces of the cap inside my radiator so i rang them and asked did they inspect my cooling system. They said yes they did but if i have a problem bring it back and they will reinspect it.

lol needless to say they will never touch my car again

[NightKids]

What place do you recommend then from Melb Panda? And do you service cars yourself?

[Chuckz]

the service advisors (they're not even mechanics) at honda artarmon told me that the dc2r doesnt have timing belt....what can i say....

[schew]

Does anybody have any comments (good or bad) regarding Honda dealerships in Sydney? Any particular dealerships that are highly recommended or should be avoided?

[yfin]

decided to try ringing other Honda dealers around the area to get their quote for the same service, assuming it would be exactly the same price for the same service, since it was all part of the Honda network. Alas...nothing could be farther from the truth. Prices for the exact same service varied substantially among Honda dealers! Why would this be??

Yeah it is a fair assumption to assume the service is the same at all dealers - but like Panda said, some dealers do 'extras' which are not part of the log book service but generally cost a little more. If I remember correctly, for example, log book in the Euro does not require oil filter change at 10,000kms (despite change of oil).

When I was doing the ring around - a couple of dealers said they disagree with the book and do the oil filter change anyway (a good thing that they are thinking). So if you only want exactly what is written in the book - ask them to quote on that.

$1200 for the Civic @80k does sounds like a lot. What proportion of that was labour and what was parts?

[Alpine]

Labor was just over a third of that cost.

[yfin]

Labor was just over a third of that cost.

So $800 was parts? If you post up what was done someone here who works in Honda service will tell you whether it was a fair price for a 80k service. I would be shocked too if that was my car @ 80k.

[panda[cRx]]

for 1200 bux he'd have to have had a cambelt and/or brake pads and other extras.

scan ya invoice and post it up y0

i'm curious