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Recently my brother went to the BMW Dealer and was recommended a slew of services. One was a Cabin Air Filter service for $414. Wondering how they could charge so much for what SHOULD be a simple job, I bought the filters myself and tried to figure out why the service was so pricey. We also get an update on the Cadillac Escalade Project and meet up with Rich Rebuilds and his sham LS Swapped Tesla.
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I walked into bmw for recalls for my airbag and walked out with a quote for 5k. 1k for wiper pump motor (I fixed for $30) engine belt and mounts $3000. Then tires and alignment
No wonder that the stealerships hate BEVs.
The jaguar Fpace is super tricky with changing the cabin air filter, but the dealer wants 275
It’s not the dealership it’s the manufacturer. The manufacturer tracks the sells of services at dealerships. And even tho they charge 400 $ for cabin air filter the tech only makes maybe 9 bucks. Usually the adviser and the person at the parts counter makes more
$415 for a cabin air filter, bmw the king of sticking it to you. lol
Cabin air filter on my 2013 Avalon takes 90 seconds to change….. dealer wants $49…including filter.
I love your videos; They are informative, unpretentious, and cool. However, the skepticism and negative tone across them are cringy.
Jacking it in San Diego
A BMW partner service just quoted me 1k usd labour to change the vanos solenoid. They said it's a 16h job.
😊maybe not jack in the grass for safety
My dealership quoted me $500 dollars for a cabin filter change on a damn Buick, ok , I left 6 bags of Black Kow manure in the back of a new car with 2k miles in it for 2 days. I'm glad I work in a hospital, I purchased 4 Lysol Citrace Germicidal disinfectants spray cans for less than $30 dollars. I also purchased two cans of a disinfectant spray at Autozone and had a full internal cleaning of the vehicle with a detail for $80 dollars. The cabin filters were less than $40 dollars. For $150, my Suv doesn't smell like a barn. Thank you, dealership, for nothing!
Services money goes like 90% to manufacturers. Manufacturers do not EARN great money when they sell brand new car; they earn trough services of the cars they have sold
vacuum that garbage off matt. then theyd put down protector covers before getting into vehicle. wash vehicle maybe thats what we did.
5:34 this chit should be criminals. No wonder why they call it the stealership.
Sold 2 bmws I owned because of the rip-off bmw service departments
Sam we love you but please please put on some gloves, nasty those used fluids pal
What was the official way to change the cabin filters?
They don't call them stealerships for nothing, that title was earned
It shouldn’t be so expensive for the cabin and the engine filter The brake flush shouldn’t cost more then 175$. It’s overpriced for sure
You have to pay for all those things that the dealership has in the waiting room plus have all those tools you have and be able to disconnect it and reconnect some of those things you took apart. Someone has to be paid to do that.
Toyota charges 50 dollars for the "ac filter" (cabin air filter). Amazing..
Buy an old volvo. You're welcome.
yet noone pushes the issue of Price gouging this really does need to be stopped but God Bless America land of the Greed and Ripoffs
"I thought it was all CGI…". LOL! 👍
You used 2 hands bro, it's not fair.
I'm asking my self how long will take until you admit to all internet that you love him and can't live without him. You look so lovely together….
Bluetooth horsepower 😂😂
I sold my last Mercedes and will not be back because when you walk in to the dealership in Alexandria the phonies working there barely speaks to you and looks up like they are smelling shit
No matter what the job is, at the end of the day it will always have more value that the dealership did it instead of the owner
It's expensive because u buy them to show off ur value and service cost is the tax u pay for it! if u can't effort it just dnt buy them stick to kia
Very simple explanation: BMW dealers use the same business model as oil companies, food companies, etc. The price is what they can get away with. The guy installing the filter likely gets $32 and that $5.39 box of cereal gets the farmer growing the grain $.26
He was really really patient with you. If you pushed someone else that much most prolly would tell u “go f urself if u don’t believe”. Not cool man. Love ur channel though that ain’t cool.
Bimmers are known to be extremely expensive to care for in the US and this is why. All american mechanics goes of "book times", and those are set by someone who's not in the same time zone as the car and counts him cycling there as a part of the labour cost. Hoovies garage has some videos with his bmw where he does the same jobs as I have in roughly the same time as me doing it in the same time yet charges 4-5x the time it took them because that's what the book said.
Super cool video! Love the concept!
Four years ago, I brought my car to service. Got a call that it needs a new xenon light. One of the adjustment screws went fubar. It turned out that they screwed the screw. I did not discuss, but took my car and bought a broken light from ebay to swap the screw. The funny part: You can adjust the light even without the screw, it's just there so you can it from the top and not only from the back of the light.
Oh, and they never saw me again since that day.
after 5 filter replacements you should have just wrote off the car
I do not think that direct to consumer is the future. Carvana and other companies are starting to go under because of their shady tactics. And many Tesla owners are refusing to take delivery of their ordered teslas because there are tons of quality problems, and Tesla keeps telling them to hit the road. At least dealerships will fix any quality issues before you buy the car, and generally they won’t make a mess of the title process. But I am shocked that they wanted to charge $400 for a cabin filter replacement. I wonder where they get that labor time from.
Carvana is the future? You realize they are failing right? They can’t even handle getting basic paperwork done.
A Range Rover is the ultimate DIY vehicle cause its 90% of the time in need of help
Honestly BMW doesn't have the best customer service (but the car is amazing in terms of driving experience)
Welcome to BMW world ! They can make you pay to park close to them !