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Recently my brother went to the BMW Dealer and was recommended a slew of services. One was a Cabin Air Filter service for $414. Wondering how they could charge so much for what SHOULD be a simple job, I bought the filters myself and tried to figure out why the service was so pricey. We also get an update on the Cadillac Escalade Project and meet up with Rich Rebuilds and his sham LS Swapped Tesla.
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I love your videos; They are informative, unpretentious, and cool. However, the skepticism and negative tone across them are cringy.
Jacking it in San Diego
A BMW partner service just quoted me 1k usd labour to change the vanos solenoid. They said it's a 16h job.
😊maybe not jack in the grass for safety
My dealership quoted me $500 dollars for a cabin filter change on a damn Buick, ok , I left 6 bags of Black Kow manure in the back of a new car with 2k miles in it for 2 days. I'm glad I work in a hospital, I purchased 4 Lysol Citrace Germicidal disinfectants spray cans for less than $30 dollars. I also purchased two cans of a disinfectant spray at Autozone and had a full internal cleaning of the vehicle with a detail for $80 dollars. The cabin filters were less than $40 dollars. For $150, my Suv doesn't smell like a barn. Thank you, dealership, for nothing!
Services money goes like 90% to manufacturers. Manufacturers do not EARN great money when they sell brand new car; they earn trough services of the cars they have sold
vacuum that garbage off matt. then theyd put down protector covers before getting into vehicle. wash vehicle maybe thats what we did.
5:34 this chit should be criminals. No wonder why they call it the stealership.
Sold 2 bmws I owned because of the rip-off bmw service departments
Sam we love you but please please put on some gloves, nasty those used fluids pal
What was the official way to change the cabin filters?
They don't call them stealerships for nothing, that title was earned
It shouldn’t be so expensive for the cabin and the engine filter The brake flush shouldn’t cost more then 175$. It’s overpriced for sure
You have to pay for all those things that the dealership has in the waiting room plus have all those tools you have and be able to disconnect it and reconnect some of those things you took apart. Someone has to be paid to do that.
Toyota charges 50 dollars for the "ac filter" (cabin air filter). Amazing..
Buy an old volvo. You're welcome.
yet noone pushes the issue of Price gouging this really does need to be stopped but God Bless America land of the Greed and Ripoffs
"I thought it was all CGI…". LOL! 👍
You used 2 hands bro, it's not fair.
I'm asking my self how long will take until you admit to all internet that you love him and can't live without him. You look so lovely together….
Bluetooth horsepower 😂😂
I sold my last Mercedes and will not be back because when you walk in to the dealership in Alexandria the phonies working there barely speaks to you and looks up like they are smelling shit
No matter what the job is, at the end of the day it will always have more value that the dealership did it instead of the owner
It's expensive because u buy them to show off ur value and service cost is the tax u pay for it! if u can't effort it just dnt buy them stick to kia
Very simple explanation: BMW dealers use the same business model as oil companies, food companies, etc. The price is what they can get away with. The guy installing the filter likely gets $32 and that $5.39 box of cereal gets the farmer growing the grain $.26
He was really really patient with you. If you pushed someone else that much most prolly would tell u “go f urself if u don’t believe”. Not cool man. Love ur channel though that ain’t cool.
Bimmers are known to be extremely expensive to care for in the US and this is why. All american mechanics goes of "book times", and those are set by someone who's not in the same time zone as the car and counts him cycling there as a part of the labour cost. Hoovies garage has some videos with his bmw where he does the same jobs as I have in roughly the same time as me doing it in the same time yet charges 4-5x the time it took them because that's what the book said.
Super cool video! Love the concept!