My car now indicates A123 service required. I am almost at 29K Anything special I should or should not have done?

 

Check the owner's manual IIRC, it's calling for an oil change, tire rotation, air filters (both engine and cabin), and transmission fluid. Do NOT ignore the trans fluid

 

Just got the A123 done on my '06 this weekend (just under 26k miles). Ran about $250 at the dealership after sales tax and coupon discount:

$33 oil chg (A)
$30 rotate tires (1)
$140 air cleaner/filter (2)
$64 replace CVT fluid (3)

 

$140 for a cabin and air filter? Did you get the "I just fell off the turnip truck" special ?

 

Oil - Fair price, assuming Mobil1 0W-20 plus a new filter
Rotation - Meh, I'll cut them some slack on that
CVT flush - Sounds reasonable... though I haven't checked yet how much the fluid would cost to do it myself.

Leaves us with....
Air filters - Holy schneikies!! What are these things?????

 

Yay for the turnip truck!

 

Yep, I was reeling from that one as well and am working my way through the invoice as we speak. The labor cost was pretty substantial. Here's the breakdown:

$21.52 air cleaner (17220-RMX-000, $17.93 on estore)
$51.84 filter (80292-SC-A01, $45.08 on estore)
$67.32 labor

 

I just bought one of these for about $17.00, and should be able to swap the old for new within a few minutes. big https://www.greenhybrid.com/discuss/...ad.php?t=14372

Actually, it may be different, my part # is as follows 80292-SDA-A01.

Bottom line is that it is the cabin air filter AKA pollen filter. My invoice does read LIST $45.50...

 

That labor fee must be for some of the other work. Replacing the two filters is a snap.

 

Oh, I doubt it's for some other work. (Begging the pardon of any of our good dealer employees on the board) that's why we call them stealerships.

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