Dealership wants $115 for fuel filter, $125 for oil filter

[alpineovernappa]

I'm not new to diesels and well aware that diesel maintenance costs more, but the prices for pars at the dealership are becoming ridiculous. Are other places gouging on maintenance parts like they are in the DC area? Even MOPAR's official online pricing is less ($70 and $105)

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[ryandoubleu]

I'm not new to diesels and well aware that diesel maintenance costs more, but the prices for pars at the dealership are becoming ridiculous. Are other places gouging on maintenance parts like they are in the DC area? Even MOPAR's official online pricing is less ($70 and $105)

Fuel Filter I bought and installed
https://a.co/d/1W5fk19

Oil Filter which comes as a unit with the plastic cap
https://a.co/d/2t6HQ1F

 

[Hootbro]

Some dealerships are just like that and will charge above listing price. There is no mechanism in place with either the franchise agreement or any law to stop them from it.

 

[Tank43]

AAA service garages here in SC over the past few years regularly trying to charge members $65 for cabin air filter change and $75 for engine air filter change. ???? WTH???? Cabin filter $10 and 2 mins to change. Engine filter $15 and 2 mins to change. How do you justify that? Yet ignorant victims are apparently paying it. Shame on AAA for gouging members and I have voiced my complaint to corporate, but I guess members is now synonymous with suckers. Stealerships are even worse.

 

[staying_tuned]

Doc's diesel with the Father's Day promo will net you 2x oil & 2x fuel filters for $125.99 w/ free shipping. I ordered a total of 4 total sets, the promo will not stack on multiple pairs so you have to go through the transaction process again for each pair if you want to stock up. With free shipping though it's only a matter of spending a few minutes on the site. This buy 1 get 1 for 25% off works for everything, picked up a set of air filters as well.

 

[Barnaby’sdad]

I’m going to go out on a limb and guess that they’re pricing them like that to discourage individual parts sales.

Why? If they sold the parts at or near the online price, they’d likely have a hard time keeping the filters in stock for folks that want to pay for service intervals, as lots of folks in “the DMV” don’t do their own fluid services/rely on dealers for that work.

 

[Hootbro]

AAA service garages here in SC over the past few years regularly trying to charge members $65 for cabin air filter change and $75 for engine air filter change. ???? WTH???? Cabin filter $10 and 2 mins to change. Engine filter $15 and 2 mins to change. How do you justify that? Yet ignorant victims are apparently paying it. Shame on AAA for gouging members and I have voiced my complaint to corporate, but I guess members is now synonymous with suckers. Stealerships are even worse.

Apples and Oranges. They can justify if because they have way more sunken costs to deliver the service than some homeowner not valuing their time the same and doing it in their driveway.

 

[CrazyCooter]

Was able to aquire a filter today from the local dealer, but I did note the wholesale price was $14 more than last time and list price was now $103. Just glad they actually had one.

 

[ShawnwFL]

Was able to aquire a filter today from the local dealer, but I did note the wholesale price was $14 more than last time and list price was now $103. Just glad they actually had one.

Same here. They’ve been out for several weeks, was just glad to get one. Paid $103 as well.

In total the oil change at the dealer cost me $266 today. Ouch.

 

[CrazyCooter]

Same here. They’ve been out for several weeks, was just glad to get one. Paid $103 as well.

In total the oil change at the dealer cost me $266 today. Ouch.

So hard to pass up those free oil changes, but not letting the lowest skill tech in the place touch my ride!

 

[alpineovernappa]

So hard to pass up those free oil changes, but not letting the lowest skill tech in the place touch my ride!

It would be nice if they offered you an oil filter and 8 quarts of rotella OR a dealer performed oil change. They could incentivize people to sign up for that jeep wave program by offering this as a perk (in lieu of free oil changes)

 

[ShawnwFL]

So hard to pass up those free oil changes, but not letting the lowest skill tech in the place touch my ride!

I Thought it was only going to be $109 because I had a coupon straight from mopar site for diesel oil change on Jeep vehicles but it somehow excludes eco diesel, which is strange considering Jeep brand vehicles have no other diesel option except eco diesel.

 

[alpineovernappa]

Update: I bought a couple of oil and fuel filters from: https://www.dieselfiltersonline.com/

roughly $45/ea. reasonable shipping up to $250, free ship after that. Quick to answer the phone, knowledgeable about inventory availability and timelines and genuine parts. Next day shipping from NJ to VA for me. Could not recommend highly enough (please don’t buy more than you need for the near future or other Jeepers will be left holding the bag on incredibly overpriced filters at the dealership)

 

[CrazyCooter]

Update: I bought a couple of oil and fuel filters from: https://www.dieselfiltersonline.com/

roughly $45/ea. reasonable shipping up to $250, free ship after that. Quick to answer the phone, knowledgeable about inventory availability and timelines and genuine parts. Next day shipping from NJ to VA for me. Could not recommend highly enough (please don’t buy more than you need for the near future or other Jeepers will be left holding the bag on incredibly overpriced filters at the dealership)

They were out of stock until the last few days.....thats why I had to buy from the dealer. I signed up to get an email when they were back in stock, but never got one......so much for that function!

 

[ntwrkguru]

AAA service garages here in SC over the past few years regularly trying to charge members $65 for cabin air filter change and $75 for engine air filter change. ???? WTH???? Cabin filter $10 and 2 mins to change. Engine filter $15 and 2 mins to change. How do you justify that? Yet ignorant victims are apparently paying it. Shame on AAA for gouging members and I have voiced my complaint to corporate, but I guess members is now synonymous with suckers. Stealerships are even worse.

Doesn’t matter how long it takes you (or the tech). What matters is the book rate x shop rate + (parts x markup). $10 part will likely be billed at 30-40 and around $100/hr at a quarter hour. Sounds about right for a full-service shop, but most will likely run coupons or specials as an enticement and then try to add on other services while they’re there.

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