My 1983 300td has 322 k miles and has never seen a drop of synthetic oil. Save your money and buy dino!
On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 8:05 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > > ...This BMW takes 8 quarts of oil, but I can't imagine it being more then > > $40 for the oil change. Oh well, I think I will avoid the dealer... > > > Anybody charging 40 bucks for an oil change is making no money. For > example, local Mobil 1 0W40 retails locally for $6.99 (I just bought 20 > quarts on > sale for $5.30 which is the lowest price for years) and 15/50 from > Walmart > for the usual 23 bucks for a five quart jug. And then there is the filter > (fleece in my car) which might $7 or more. Or less. Plus labor, disposal > fees, > shop supplies etc. > > So my oil-change-by-Topsider just yesterday cost me about $50 and no labor > charge. My MB dealer probably gets twice that. > > RLE > > > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: < > http://okiebenz.com/pipermail/mercedes_okiebenz.com/attachments/20090819/f598cbc8/attachment.html > > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://okiebenz.com/pipermail/mercedes_okiebenz.com/attachments/20090819/e7dea95b/attachment.html> _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
