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Brother's car is due this. What's involved and how much is it roughly? They quoted him over £600 until he asked how so much and they dropped it to £540...🙄 guessing it's so much because of the plug change.

My concerns are because it's got the TD N/A kit on plus a few other bits they'll mess something up or even refuse to touch it. There's a few bits he won't need like air filter, brake fluid, etc because they were changed when we upgraded but I don't know what's fully involved in a 6 year service. The car itself is perfect and he's barely done 35k in it. 

My confidence with any dealer where I am is low at the moment. My last experience cost me £1200 because some YTS pushed too much pressure through the system doing a brake fluid change, borking my slave cylinder, causing me to change the clutch. Someone in my office has a new car with a premium brand, goes in for routine warranty work, have it for 4 days, 3 of which it never moved and they give it back with more issues and they washed it, even though he told them not to after he'd just paid someone to detail it. 

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It will be engine oil, dif oil, brakes fluid and plugs. And the plugs require them to raise the engine which turns the £320 quid full service into a £600 quid one. TD NA kit is fine, after all it's just aftermarket manifold, just mention that it has an aftermarket map.

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1 minute ago, nikndel said:

Why take it to main dealer?

Because where we are there's no one else really that knows anything about 86's. I have a Skoda but have a great specialist who looks after it but they tend to stick with German stuff only

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9 minutes ago, KobayashiMaru said:

Because where we are there's no one else really that knows anything about 86's. I have a Skoda but have a great specialist who looks after it but they tend to stick with German stuff only

That's the problem with having a rare car and certain dealerships that haven't a clue what to do 😥

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The spark plugs are due to be changed at 60K miles not six years, so your service is just the same as a full service. If the dealer is telling you that they need to change the plugs as it's six years old, they are wrong. The TD NA kit should not cause any problems with getting the service done. Loads of us have it after all and I've yet to hear a Toyota dealer refusing to do the work because of it. 

 

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11 minutes ago, Lauren said:

The spark plugs are due to be changed at 60K miles not six years, so your service is just the same as a full service. If the dealer is telling you that they need to change the plugs as it's six years old, they are wrong. The TD NA kit should not cause any problems with getting the service done. Loads of us have it after all and I've yet to hear a Toyota dealer refusing to do the work because of it. 

 

Dealers here are known for being hard work to deal with, whatever marque they are. I'd always change plugs on mileage but he's just has the quote so only here asking what's involved. The only reason I asked about the TD kit was because if they are moving the engine I was just worried they'd break something and then say it's not their problem as it's not their parts.

Going by this I'll just tell him to get the oil dropped, diff oil, gearbox oil and maybe coolant but that's it. They don't need to do anything else. If I had the choice I wouldn't have anything to do with them. Would go back up to TD if it was me but he thinks it's a long way for it. May have to convince him otherwise or I'll offer to take it up myself.

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48 minutes ago, KobayashiMaru said:

Dealers here are known for being hard work to deal with, whatever marque they are. I'd always change plugs on mileage but he's just has the quote so only here asking what's involved. The only reason I asked about the TD kit was because if they are moving the engine I was just worried they'd break something and then say it's not their problem as it's not their parts.

Going by this I'll just tell him to get the oil dropped, diff oil, gearbox oil and maybe coolant but that's it. They don't need to do anything else. If I had the choice I wouldn't have anything to do with them. Would go back up to TD if it was me but he thinks it's a long way for it. May have to convince him otherwise or I'll offer to take it up myself.

Coolant doesn't need changing til 140k miles so scrub that off the list. I had my plugs changed for the second time and I have the TD NA kit, it was a total non-issue. They only have to lift the engine a very small amount. Gearbox oil doesn't need changing either so lose that too. 

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Toyota do a reduced price servicing package for cars over 5 years old too. Makes the big (gold) service £200 but doesn't include plugs. Like others have said though at that mileage it doesn't really need them and you'd be better waiting until the recall and just getting them done then. 

https://www.toyota.co.uk/owners/service-mot-maintenance/servicing?gclsrc=aw.ds&ds_rl=1253313&gclid=Cj0KCQiA-onjBRDSARIsAEZXcKY59EaacjXrBKdzt6GyJHU7NntdlqSPXNyX5uzKnFYhqZKRwb4l1jIaAqgdEALw_wcB#

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2 hours ago, Deacon said:

Toyota do a reduced price servicing package for cars over 5 years old too. Makes the big (gold) service £200 but doesn't include plugs. Like others have said though at that mileage it doesn't really need them and you'd be better waiting until the recall and just getting them done then. 

https://www.toyota.co.uk/owners/service-mot-maintenance/servicing?gclsrc=aw.ds&ds_rl=1253313&gclid=Cj0KCQiA-onjBRDSARIsAEZXcKY59EaacjXrBKdzt6GyJHU7NntdlqSPXNyX5uzKnFYhqZKRwb4l1jIaAqgdEALw_wcB#

They do, but that doesn't work on our cars at least if you want a full service, so diff oil etc. That's what I've found anyway, so the service prices haven't got cheaper now my car is six years old. 

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Jeff is right. I have compared details via Toyota website. The only extra on our cars compared to a gold service is diff oil.
120 and 200 for silver and gold vs 205 and 365 for minor and major for cars less than 5 yrs old.
Diff oil can be added as an extra for 80£ which makes it 280.
Spark plug service aka 60K is a totally different ballgame though. No escape there.

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7 hours ago, Lauren said:

They do, but that doesn't work on our cars at least if you want a full service, so diff oil etc. That's what I've found anyway, so the service prices haven't got cheaper now my car is six years old. 

You need to speak to Rich 😉

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