Is that a reasonable price for an oil change on my Accord 2.4 Type-S? Includes synthetic oil, filter and labour, Honda wants around 150 but an indy garage which I've used before said they would it do it for 70, 45 for an MOT and 180 for a pair of Goodyear F1 Asymmetrics.
70 note for an oil change?
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Yeah sounds ok.
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Why not buy the oil and the filter and then do it yourself for about £35-40?
Saves pulling your trousers down and spending £70 like you're just about too.
Saves pulling your trousers down and spending £70 like you're just about too.
I normally do bits and pieces around both mine and the wifes car, changed her rear brake pads just a few months ago but can't be arsed in all honesty to mess about with changing oil and don't have the required tool to take off the filter. I know that the tool to take the filter off is only around a fiver
I normally do bits and pieces around both mine and the wifes car, changed her rear brake pads just a few months ago but can't be arsed in all honesty to mess about with changing oil and don't have the required tool to take off the filter. I know that the tool to take the filter off is only around a fiver
What? A towel and some grip? You don't need a tool really, only sometimes when they are really hard to shift, even then just use a small ratchet strap or similar.
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Borrow the wifes marigolds 
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The only tool you need is some strength in your wrist and rubber gloves for grip, and if that fails a flathead screwdriver which you can punch through it and use it to unscrew the filter
Honestly it's dead easy and think what you could do with the £25-30 saved.
Honestly it's dead easy and think what you could do with the £25-30 saved.
And they have the fixed price thing don't they so unless they've doubled their prices in the last six months it shouldn't be £150! Unless this was a full bigger service
i'm sure the 2.4 accord takes more than 4 litres which means you will need two tubs (decent stuff only tends to come in 4lt) This alone for semi-synth will cost the best part of 50 quid and about a fiver for the filter.
i would always do this myself but if you want to save messing about on the floor and getting dirty 70 notes isn't a bad price.
i would always do this myself but if you want to save messing about on the floor and getting dirty 70 notes isn't a bad price.
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I do my oil changes myself, it's easy. Although most of the time it's been changed when the expert has taken it in at lunchtime for a bit of maintenance, such as changing a CV boot.
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5L of Silkolene fully synth is about £40. Filter maybe a fiver.
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Put it in an old bottle and take it to the local householders waste.
tbh
Don't your neighbours notice their green-going-on-black hedge then or are they colour blind?
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Becuase a Honda Accord 2.4 Type-S is at the most a 5 year old car, and when selling a car like this a service history is more important than saving £30 on a service.
