The Subaru dealer is constantly telling me to come in and pay them a hideous amount of money for nothing. See, if you go down and give them $400-500 and they don't do anything, it's all pretty much pure profit. Makes business sense to me. Wish I'd thought of a way for our clients to pay us and we did nothing.
Okay, they don't say, "give us the dough and we don't do anything for it." But, 99% of the "service" is BS inspections.
Back in 1990, I paid a whack of dough to an Acura dealer for "inspections." They told me that the brakes (thems not the breaks) were at 60% front and rear. Three weeks later I was having some brake issues (the brakes seem to be breaking) and I took it back. The fronts were worn right down to the backing plates. I raised bloody murder and got the previous "inspection" service refunded.
That was the day that I learned that the "inspections" at dealerships are just a way to steal your money.
No, I take it in with a list of things for them to do. Fluids and filters and stuff like that. I'm not going to pay two to four hours of labour for you to honk the horn (which is not done) and make sure the lights work (though they 'd miss it if they weren't working).
One major purchase decision for the 'Rolla was the VERY clear service schedule that is shockingly inexpensive, lacks padding and is clearly designed to appeal to someone exactly like me, that won't pay for BS-inspections.
