I think you'll find most people think $4oo is cheap and have better things
to do with their lives

Also no service history for a car with only 30k on it?

wouldn't touch it with a barge pole mate

jim beam <spamvortex@bad.example.net> wrote in news:P-
KdnbwOL4kyKZ_UnZ2dnUVZ_jidnZ2d@speakeasy.net:

What he said.

It bears repeating: Your local dealer is NOT "Honda". Auto dealers are
independent companies. They simply hold a franchise to sell a particular
automaker's products, this franchise being purchased (or leased, I'm not
sure) from the automaker.

The franchise agreement includes (among other things) the right to:
- have their technicians factory-trained;
- purchase parts and materials from the automaker's regional subsidiary;
- have access to factory documentation;
- fly the automaker's colors at their store;
- benefit from national advertising by the automaker.

Dealerships are otherwise free to do pretty much whatever they want,
including recommending their own maintenance schedules and using whatever
parts and materials they wish to fix your car, OEM or aftermarket.

Once new cars are delivered to the dealer by Honda, their ownership changes
hands. Honda no longer owns the vehicles, the dealership does. This is true
even as the dealer makes payments to Honda for the cars before they are
sold.

Your Owner's Manual was printed for you -- the consumer -- on behalf of
Honda, not the dealer. It was placed in your glove box by the Honda
assembly plant, not the dealer. It contains whatever Honda wants you to do
for your car's health, not the dealer. Honda's specs are what is important,
not what the dealer says in his signage or in those flyers in your mailbox.

Okay, another "what he said".

Carol's 07 Camry came up for one of its scheduled services.  Dealer
says "we recommend" followed by about 20 items and a $95 price tag.
Manual says oil, rotate and check fluids.