What a Deal !!
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What a Deal !!
I hear lots of people complaining about Dealer prices. I have my LS 430 serviced at Mike Shaw Toyota in Corpus Christi because the Lexus dealer is 250 miles away in Austin. But the parts are the same and the Lexus dealer charges twice the labor cost, and I have to find lodging while I wait for a week. Oh yes, and Mike Shaw sent an uber to pick me up to come get the car (50 miles round trip!)
I just got back from the dealer where I got BOTH front struts replaced, Both rear brake rotors and pads replaced, LR "Knuckle" replaced (That was the big bill) Four wheel alignment. all for $3100. All OEM parts. Yes I could have saved a couple hundred by doing the work myself but when I got to that frozen bolt on the knuckle I would have regretted THAT decision. This brings my maintenance cost for 100,000 miles to a total of $5400 (includes one TB replacement). Thats about five cents a mile. Gas is 10 cents a mile, and then there are tires, oil and one battery but I count those as expendables.. But even including the expendables the cost is only $19,000 (I have all the receipts logged in) So the total cost of ownership including expendables is just about 20 cents a mile!!!!
I bought it used from a "little old lady" that only drove it to the dealer for service every 3 months for 10K Whats not to love about a 21 year old Lexus that still looks and drives like new.It will be another 100,000 miles before I will have to do anything more.
I just got back from the dealer where I got BOTH front struts replaced, Both rear brake rotors and pads replaced, LR "Knuckle" replaced (That was the big bill) Four wheel alignment. all for $3100. All OEM parts. Yes I could have saved a couple hundred by doing the work myself but when I got to that frozen bolt on the knuckle I would have regretted THAT decision. This brings my maintenance cost for 100,000 miles to a total of $5400 (includes one TB replacement). Thats about five cents a mile. Gas is 10 cents a mile, and then there are tires, oil and one battery but I count those as expendables.. But even including the expendables the cost is only $19,000 (I have all the receipts logged in) So the total cost of ownership including expendables is just about 20 cents a mile!!!!
I bought it used from a "little old lady" that only drove it to the dealer for service every 3 months for 10K Whats not to love about a 21 year old Lexus that still looks and drives like new.It will be another 100,000 miles before I will have to do anything more.
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I hear lots of people complaining about Dealer prices. I have my LS 430 serviced at Mike Shaw Toyota in Corpus Christi because the Lexus dealer is 250 miles away in Austin. But the parts are the same and the Lexus dealer charges twice the labor cost, and I have to find lodging while I wait for a week. Oh yes, and Mike Shaw sent an uber to pick me up to come get the car (50 miles round trip!)
I just got back from the dealer where I got BOTH front struts replaced, Both rear brake rotors and pads replaced, LR "Knuckle" replaced (That was the big bill) Four wheel alignment. all for $3100. All OEM parts. Yes I could have saved a couple hundred by doing the work myself but when I got to that frozen bolt on the knuckle I would have regretted THAT decision. This brings my maintenance cost for 100,000 miles to a total of $5400 (includes one TB replacement). Thats about five cents a mile. Gas is 10 cents a mile, and then there are tires, oil and one battery but I count those as expendables.. But even including the expendables the cost is only $19,000 (I have all the receipts logged in) So the total cost of ownership including expendables is just about 20 cents a mile!!!!
I bought it used from a "little old lady" that only drove it to the dealer for service every 3 months for 10K Whats not to love about a 21 year old Lexus that still looks and drives like new.It will be another 100,000 miles before I will have to do anything more.
I just got back from the dealer where I got BOTH front struts replaced, Both rear brake rotors and pads replaced, LR "Knuckle" replaced (That was the big bill) Four wheel alignment. all for $3100. All OEM parts. Yes I could have saved a couple hundred by doing the work myself but when I got to that frozen bolt on the knuckle I would have regretted THAT decision. This brings my maintenance cost for 100,000 miles to a total of $5400 (includes one TB replacement). Thats about five cents a mile. Gas is 10 cents a mile, and then there are tires, oil and one battery but I count those as expendables.. But even including the expendables the cost is only $19,000 (I have all the receipts logged in) So the total cost of ownership including expendables is just about 20 cents a mile!!!!
I bought it used from a "little old lady" that only drove it to the dealer for service every 3 months for 10K Whats not to love about a 21 year old Lexus that still looks and drives like new.It will be another 100,000 miles before I will have to do anything more.
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I hear lots of people complaining about Dealer prices. I have my LS 430 serviced at Mike Shaw Toyota in Corpus Christi because the Lexus dealer is 250 miles away in Austin. But the parts are the same and the Lexus dealer charges twice the labor cost, and I have to find lodging while I wait for a week. Oh yes, and Mike Shaw sent an uber to pick me up to come get the car (50 miles round trip!)
I just got back from the dealer where I got BOTH front struts replaced, Both rear brake rotors and pads replaced, LR "Knuckle" replaced (That was the big bill) Four wheel alignment. all for $3100. All OEM parts. Yes I could have saved a couple hundred by doing the work myself but when I got to that frozen bolt on the knuckle I would have regretted THAT decision. This brings my maintenance cost for 100,000 miles to a total of $5400 (includes one TB replacement). Thats about five cents a mile. Gas is 10 cents a mile, and then there are tires, oil and one battery but I count those as expendables.. But even including the expendables the cost is only $19,000 (I have all the receipts logged in) So the total cost of ownership including expendables is just about 20 cents a mile!!!!
I bought it used from a "little old lady" that only drove it to the dealer for service every 3 months for 10K Whats not to love about a 21 year old Lexus that still looks and drives like new.It will be another 100,000 miles before I will have to do anything more.
I just got back from the dealer where I got BOTH front struts replaced, Both rear brake rotors and pads replaced, LR "Knuckle" replaced (That was the big bill) Four wheel alignment. all for $3100. All OEM parts. Yes I could have saved a couple hundred by doing the work myself but when I got to that frozen bolt on the knuckle I would have regretted THAT decision. This brings my maintenance cost for 100,000 miles to a total of $5400 (includes one TB replacement). Thats about five cents a mile. Gas is 10 cents a mile, and then there are tires, oil and one battery but I count those as expendables.. But even including the expendables the cost is only $19,000 (I have all the receipts logged in) So the total cost of ownership including expendables is just about 20 cents a mile!!!!
I bought it used from a "little old lady" that only drove it to the dealer for service every 3 months for 10K Whats not to love about a 21 year old Lexus that still looks and drives like new.It will be another 100,000 miles before I will have to do anything more.
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