Service Items

Graeme Baker · August 17, 2005

Hello.

Recently bought a '99 GS300, which will shortly be due for it's 81,000 mile service. I have phoned two dealers for quotes. Twickenham said £500 and Bristol told me it would be £500 plus VAT. Mmmmm.. I also learned, from reading items on LOC, that the Twickenham dealer ships cars for servicing off to Toyota at Isleworth.

I have a couple of questions:

1. what's included in the service for £500

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2. are Toyota mechanics trained to sevrice Lexus cars?

BTW - I got a good deal at ATS on tyres by showing them the prices from www.blackcircles.co.uk - they have a price-matchinng policy. The prices blackcircles quote are either supply only or supply and fit. The nearest dealer wasn't as convenient for me as ATS.

SHAHZ · August 18, 2005

Dont know what is included in service but most lex/toyota dealers use the same mechanics :)

ces · August 18, 2005

my experience is they may have one toyaota mechanic who is lexus trained.

Ask the dealer to suplly what they are doing, I have before. First time it was Chester and he is/was a stroppy b**tard, who thought I was taking it to an independent servicing agent!

I have mine booked in next week for 90k service on 2001 gs300 and quoted £286 before Gold inclusive of all things, subject to them finding something else.

Lexus UK should be able to suplly the list of what is done at each service, as I have heard of differences between dealers as to what they do, so you can check it off. Would suggest you ask for old parts, ie filters, as seems a common thing in the industry not to change filters, which mucks up the whole running etc of the car.

Good luck.

Graeme Baker · August 18, 2005

Dont know what is included in service but most lex/toyota dealers use the same mechanics :)

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Graeme Baker · August 18, 2005

Dont know what is included in service but most lex/toyota dealers use the same mechanics :)

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Thanks for the feedback.

My mechanic never cahrged me more than £150 for a sevrice, so £500 seems very steep for was in ostensibly the same work. Seems to be an awful lot of 'checking', from what I gather and not a lot of 'replacing'. I could do oil changes myself!