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Cheap oil change deal for your beaters that don't need any loving

-$15 for an Oil Change at Richmond Subaru
Car Wash & Vacuum
30-Point Inspection

(Value $50)
-Expires Dec.31.2020

-Prolonged expiry date (about 10 years!)

-Offer valid for up to 5 Litres of 5W30 or 10W30 non synthetic oil only

http://www.indulgeliving.com/ (http://www.indulgeliving.com/?utm_source=uu2295)

[iamed]

nice

[donjalapeno]

sweet im due for an oil change.

[CP.AR]

they are actually not bad - my dad does his subaru maintainence there and I tagged my own car with the service once. But again, it's an oilchange - pretty hard to fuck up.

[leelee]

Too bad it's 5w30/10w30 only. Is there a big difference between 5w20 and 5w30? I've heard that 5w30 is actually better for higher mileage cars as it provides a bit more protection by trading off some gas mileage?

[boatcaptain]

time to bring my miata to subaru!

[gars]

I wonder how much the environment charge and tax is...

good deal nonetheless though! thanks!!

[RE-Jo]

Too bad it's 5w30/10w30 only. Is there a big difference between 5w20 and 5w30? I've heard that 5w30 is actually better for higher mileage cars as it provides a bit more protection by trading off some gas mileage?

Shouldn't cause a problem.

Does anyone know if we actually need to book an appointment?
On the Richmond subaru website, it says no need for appointment for express oil change.

**I just phoned in, and yes you will need an appointment with the coupon**

[shenmecar]

that is cheap!

[asdfpic]

anyone know if they will upgrade to synthetic and for what charge?

[skylinergtr]

Too bad it's 5w30/10w30 only. Is there a big difference between 5w20 and 5w30? I've heard that 5w30 is actually better for higher mileage cars as it provides a bit more protection by trading off some gas mileage?



its up to you to make the decision.

I just switched up the specified 5w-20 to 5w-30 in my 2002 ford explorer v8. It just hit 200,000kms, it runs great, and i want it to last!

it was using 5w-20 all its life since new up until a month ago when i decided to use 5w-30.

i noticed that consumption is down (although it was only using .5L every 5000kms), smoothness is increased, no increase in engine acoustics, and gas mileage is more or less the same.

I will definitely keep using 5w-30 with this car from now on. I just feel that it provides much superior lubrication as apposed to 5w-20 which is like water when your pouring it into the crankcase.

if you do make the swap, make sure to use 5w and not 10w because then it might interfere with tolerance issues and create more consumption. Or atleast from what i've heard.

[Holeshot]

Thats cheap. You can't really mess up a oil change, and inspection.
I think the only reason they are doing this is because they have the LOWEST CSI % of all the Subaru dealers in BC.
No matter I bought a few.

[danz]

fml

[Klobbersaurus]

they gotta be losing money on these oil changes

[asdfpic]

they gotta be losing money on these oil changes

yeah but they convince lots of people who know no better that something needs replacing or fixing and the big bucks come in

[BBMme]

+1 for richmond subaru
awesome service

[fliptuner]

Shouldn't cause a problem.

Does anyone know if we actually need to book an appointment?
On the Richmond subaru website, it says no need for appointment for express oil change.

**I just phoned in, and yes you will need an appointment with the coupon**

It says on the link:

Fine Print
Expires Dec.31.2020
Limit 10 per person, may purchase additional as gifts. Tax and environmental levy not included. No cash value, cannot be combined with any other offers. By appointment only, 24-hour cancellation policy in effect or voucher is void. Offer valid for up to 5 Litres of 5W30 or 10W30 Non-Synthetic Oil only


they gotta be losing money on these oil changes

That's why I'm wondering if they only change the oil and you have to purchase the filter separately. It doesn't say anywhere in the ad that a filter is included. If that's the case, it's only good for every other oil change IMO. Maybe it's worth it to get people in the door.

It is still a good deal for an oil change, wash and to check up on stuff like possible exhaust issues and brake wear, etc. I live to far for it to be worth it and don't trust many lot guys to wash my car (unless they have a touchless system).

[rageguy]

It doesn't say anywhere in the ad that a filter is included. If that's the case, it's only good for every other oil change IMO. Maybe it's worth it to get people in the door.


It is included. Also, they use the super general, Imperial oil.

Source:
Indulge Living commented 8 hours ago
@Chad
Yes, this deal includes the replacement of oil filter . Enjoy =)
@Andrew
Richmond Subaru uses Imperial Oil. =)

Chad Sloane commented 9 hours ago
Does this include replacement of the oil filter as well?

[Klobbersaurus]

yeah but they convince lots of people who know no better that something needs replacing or fixing and the big bucks come in
You would think so wouldn't you but these are the cheap asses that don't wanna spend money on their cars so they go for a 15 dollar oil change, I could see that place packed with bmws and benz
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[EmperorIS]

can we bring our own oil ?

[K-Dub]

can we bring our own oil ?
Why don't you phone and ask? 604-278-6524

[The_AK]

I remember Honda was doing free oil changes a few months back, at the same collecting info for database. Received several phoens calls, no, i'm NOT currently interested in a new Honda Odyssey.

Jokes aside, good deal and mutually beneficial. Go for it

[RE-Jo]

My car is currently at the subaru dealer~ Hopefully I will have good things to say after I pick up the car tonight.

[jmvdesign]

Smart move. I don't think anyone would think twice of going there checking out their inventory of cars compared to going to the Automall. Using this groupon type of advertising saves them from paying an agency to make their future commercials/campaigns/ads etc. Instead they'll provide this cheap service and actually get people into their showrooms. I'm sure their sales will more than make up for their oil change losses.

[- kT]

great deal, i'd probably opt for no wash if i were you guys though. maybe just vacuum

i've seen how their lot boys wash the cars, they use brushes (as most dealerships do, which is bad enough already) but i've seen them leave the brushes with the brush side on the floor, then pick it up and use it right on the body

i've even seen them use the same brush that they use on the wheels, on the body. multiple times

if you value your cars paint and don't want swirls, opt for no wash. if it doesn't matter to you then go for it, it's part of the deal anyway!

[rageguy]

if you value your cars paint and don't want swirls, opt for no wash. if it doesn't matter to you then go for it, it's part of the deal anyway!

Except there have been many times where they still washed my car. Not at this dealership, but I'm sure this can happen.

[- kT]

Except there have been many times where they still washed my car. Not at this dealership, but I'm sure this can happen.

not gonna name any names, but i think i know which dealership you're talking about ;) pm me if you want confirmation - which i think you should

just stand around near the back. you'll see your car being taken out. run inside to your advisor that your car is done being worked on and that you'll be on your way

like i said, if you appreciate your swirl free paint finish, the effort will be worth it

[EmperorIS]

how many did you guys buy ?

i am tempted to buy 10... but 150 bucks ..

[optiblue]

damn... non synthetic only :fuuuuu:

[imp>dom]

doesnt say it includes oil filter hehe

[Bender Unit]

doesnt say it includes oil filter hehe
Already answered by post #18 :fullofwin::fullofwin:

[EmperorIS]

doesnt say it includes oil filter hehe

it does you tard

[imp>dom]

it does you tard

wow what a genius you are. proud of you.

[EmperorIS]

wow what a genius you are. proud of you.

i'm not a genius just not fucking blind or retarded

[imp>dom]

its obvious you are not

thx TS for posting this

[RE-Jo]

Took my car in for service the other day. The attitude from the service guys alone makes me regret purchasing the oil change. One guy was waving my"Coupon" to the next guy as if saying "look, it's another one of them cheap bastards". I don't believe they even said hi, and no smile whatsoever.

Exterior of the car was ok clean, but you can tell they probably spent less than 10 minutes washing. floor/carpet was still dirty near the corners, and I am not talking about hard to get corners. I doubt they actually spent any time with the "30-point" inspection either.

With the environmental Levy and Tax, the total comes to about $21.25 ($15 coupon + $6.25 tax+levy).

My conclusion is, if you have an hour of free time, do the oil change yourself (including buying oil+filter). I bought 4 tickets/coupons originally, and am now considering selling the other 3 if anyone is interested.

[Bender Unit]

I went to their part & service department twice last year for purchase parts.
The young gentleman never smile or say hi.
All he did was stucking in his high chair :troll:

[godwin]

Won't it be more effective to let the coupon vendor know this?

Took my car in for service the other day. The attitude from the service guys alone makes me regret purchasing the oil change. One guy was waving my"Coupon" to the next guy as if saying "look, it's another one of them cheap bastards". I don't believe they even said hi, and no smile whatsoever.

Exterior of the car was ok clean, but you can tell they probably spent less than 10 minutes washing. floor/carpet was still dirty near the corners, and I am not talking about hard to get corners. I doubt they actually spent any time with the "30-point" inspection either.

With the environmental Levy and Tax, the total comes to about $21.25 ($15 coupon + $6.25 tax+levy).

My conclusion is, if you have an hour of free time, do the oil change yourself (including buying oil+filter). I bought 4 tickets/coupons originally, and am now considering selling the other 3 if anyone is interested.

[2damaxmr2]

LOLz i guess my beater will be getting a bath... It has not had a bath since 2007.

[- kT]

Took my car in for service the other day. The attitude from the service guys alone makes me regret purchasing the oil change. One guy was waving my"Coupon" to the next guy as if saying "look, it's another one of them cheap bastards". I don't believe they even said hi, and no smile whatsoever.

Exterior of the car was ok clean, but you can tell they probably spent less than 10 minutes washing. floor/carpet was still dirty near the corners, and I am not talking about hard to get corners. I doubt they actually spent any time with the "30-point" inspection either.

With the environmental Levy and Tax, the total comes to about $21.25 ($15 coupon + $6.25 tax+levy).

My conclusion is, if you have an hour of free time, do the oil change yourself (including buying oil+filter). I bought 4 tickets/coupons originally, and am now considering selling the other 3 if anyone is interested.

thanks for the heads up. i was going to buy a few of these (since an oil filter alone is 10 bucks) and see if i could bring in my own oil but after reading, i'd rather just do it myself

[asdfpic]

it would be great to post this on the deal discussion if you could RE-Jo

i have had a experience with Social Shopper where a large number of people complained about a deal that many purchased for Zen Chinese restaurant and Social Shopper offered refunds no questions asked to those who have not used the coupon

Won't it be more effective to let the coupon vendor know this?

Quote:
Originally Posted by RE-Jo
Took my car in for service the other day. The attitude from the service guys alone makes me regret purchasing the oil change. One guy was waving my"Coupon" to the next guy as if saying "look, it's another one of them cheap bastards". I don't believe they even said hi, and no smile whatsoever.

Exterior of the car was ok clean, but you can tell they probably spent less than 10 minutes washing. floor/carpet was still dirty near the corners, and I am not talking about hard to get corners. I doubt they actually spent any time with the "30-point" inspection either.

With the environmental Levy and Tax, the total comes to about $21.25 ($15 coupon + $6.25 tax+levy).

My conclusion is, if you have an hour of free time, do the oil change yourself (including buying oil+filter). I bought 4 tickets/coupons originally, and am now considering selling the other 3 if anyone is interested.

[The_AK]

Took my car in for service the other day. The attitude from the service guys alone makes me regret purchasing the oil change. One guy was waving my"Coupon" to the next guy as if saying "look, it's another one of them cheap bastards". I don't believe they even said hi, and no smile whatsoever.

Exterior of the car was ok clean, but you can tell they probably spent less than 10 minutes washing. floor/carpet was still dirty near the corners, and I am not talking about hard to get corners. I doubt they actually spent any time with the "30-point" inspection either.

With the environmental Levy and Tax, the total comes to about $21.25 ($15 coupon + $6.25 tax+levy).

My conclusion is, if you have an hour of free time, do the oil change yourself (including buying oil+filter). I bought 4 tickets/coupons originally, and am now considering selling the other 3 if anyone is interested.

Sound like real assholes, wouldn't want these guys working on my car if I was to get it serviced by the dealer. Let this be a notice to you Subaru dealers watching this thread!

[RE-Jo]

I just posted on the deal discussion page.
I will probably get a "what do you expect for $15!" reply :P

[Holeshot]

thats why they have the lowest customer satisfaction % out of all the Subaru dealers in the lower mainland.

[?NR]

and just as an interesting fact, a block down is Kia Richmond who offers all makes oil changes for $29.99.

kinda shooting themselves in the foot as both of these dealerships have the same owner :lol

[imp>dom]

damn i just bought 6

[RE-Jo]

There is nothing wrong with the oil change (at least not yet :P). You do save some time having other people change the oil for you.
I am just saying the service is bad enough to make me think twice about recommending this deal to my friends.

[kyoshiro]

thats why they have the lowest customer satisfaction % out of all the Subaru dealers in the lower mainland.

yeah... told me to come another time when they're not busy for a test drive cuz they only had one salesman last time I went.
so i never went back :fullofwin:

[hk20000]

^ That's just coz you sound like 100% you aren't looking at a new car (test drive while changine oil...well if you are going to buy a car why change oil on the old one?)

Anyway here's my 2 cents I just brought the eccentricorolla in for an oil change and either they read this post or someone in the management did.

It's actually rather good. Douglas the advisor treated me with respect and the mech pointed out mechanical faults on my car in very reasonable fashion, this is what the report says

1. coolant reservoir full of water (yes I know)
2. engine check light on (yes that too)
3. driveshaft at an extreme angle (News to me, but I'll look under the car again to see if it's really that outrageous....my Mitsubishi also had an odd angle center shaft and it drove fine.)
4. front tires at 2/32 requiring replacement soon, rear is 6/32 (I'm thinking to rotate them because the rear has no camber angle the rear will benefit from the meaty tread still available on the outer half of the front tires)
5. no horn (I don't know it did go meep meep just now when I pressed it)
6. no reverse light (I didn't wire it up, lol)

And then I watched them wash the car.....to be honest it's still a bit dirty but they did wash it....soap brush spray, you know, the typical dealership carwash...

Vacuum job is not bad actually, I watched them do it...the only complaint is they wouldn't vac my trunk carpet lol....but other cars wouldn't have this problem I assume.

not too bad I think....$15 for all that service. Free filter and oil for a car wash and vac basically.

At least when you have an interesting car the mech like to have a chat with you lol. He says I should put in a Hondata to get rid of the engine check light... and maybe some fab work to put the center driveshaft carrier bearing higher up to correct the rake angle of the driveshaft... But then he is a Honda guy haha.

[RE-Jo]

So you were there during the whole process?
I dropped mine off and picked the car up after work.
No one talked to me regarding anything on the inspection...

[kyoshiro]

^ That's just coz you sound like 100% you aren't looking at a new car (test drive while changine oil...well if you are going to buy a car why change oil on the old one?)


oh no as in my general experience over there when I was car shopping. I didn't get the $15 oil change deal as I bring my Mazda back to Signature Mazda @ Auto Mall (I might start bringing it to else where soon) and my Merc isnt due for one yet. Sorry for the misunderstanding.

[hk20000]

So you were there during the whole process?
I dropped mine off and picked the car up after work.
No one talked to me regarding anything on the inspection...

yeah I was there the whole time rolled in at 11, walked to CT across the street to buy some random bits and pieces and came back at 11:30 or so.... sat in the showroom waiting corner drinking their free coffee and got the car back at 12:30 or something with a report. Watched them wash the car and vacuumed the thing before I left the premises.

If anything the receipt did come with a 30-pt inspection report check list right?

Your bad experience might be contributed by the fact that the mechanics have gone home and the service advisor did not remember who you were?

It's rather common practice to send customer away if there is only one sales person on the floor though, no one is going to greet the next customer if he went test driving with you otherwise.

On top of that I was browsing their catalog of subaru accessories and inquired about the under seat subwoofer - I asked them if they know if the plug is generic and if I can hook it up to an aftermarket deck, they pulled a kit out of the warehouse for me to look at. No complaints there. too bad the amp+sub uses a proprietary plug...

[freelunch]

They're like the NCIX of subaru dealers, works good and service is ok, but you're really goin there for the lower price rather than a friendly chat
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[kyoshiro]

They're like the NCIX of subaru dealers, works good and service is ok, but you're really goin there for the lower price rather than a friendly chat
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Which one is the memory express Subaru who price matches :D
But yeah there was 1 sale person and like 4 other people at desks who I don't even know what they do. Ah well, I may go again if the new wrx looks sweet
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[hk20000]

sales person and admin people don't do the same thing....

for one, sales people need a license.

[PiuYi]

bringing my moms car in for oil change next week and they asked for vehicle VIN # to set an appointment? :confused:

never brought the car in to do service other than from the dealership we bought the car from, so is this common practice? don't know why they'd want it... girl on the phone said it was "to know what kind of oil to use" :lawl:

[Sky_High]

don't know why they'd want it... girl on the phone said it was "to know what kind of oil to use" :lawl:

That's true to a degree.
With your VIN number, they will then know the exact year and model of your car...AND the last registered mileage on the system. For example, if they look up your VIN, and half a year ago...your mileage was at 230,000km already, then obviously they will be using a different type of oil compare to a brand new sparkling STI.

[hk20000]

yeah they asked me about my VIN and stuff for my oil change too.

I think it's mostly to avoid someone else coming in and take my reservation spot....I would imagine that happens rather easily.

I went with the same coupon for the Accord oil change also pretty trouble free I would say... and the 30 pt report correctly pointed me to my next repairs so it's alright I think.

[PiuYi]

That's true to a degree.
With your VIN number, they will then know the exact year and model of your car...AND the last registered mileage on the system. For example, if they look up your VIN, and half a year ago...your mileage was at 230,000km already, then obviously they will be using a different type of oil compare to a brand new sparkling STI.

wouldn't it be easier just to ask for my mileage? they already asked for model/year

anyways hope this turns out good

[asdfpic]

so went there for the second time with the coupon last week.

first time it was flat out using the coupons plus a couple bucks for tax.

this time they decided to charge me a $10 premium because my car needs 5w20 oil...
not synthetic, plain old motor oil
last time they didn't charge me anything. same car same oil

so total was $15 for the voucher and another $15 for oil tax enviro crap.

just a heads up next time anyone goes

[wbean]

do they work on lowered cars?

i remember it said no modified cars.

as well can i option to get synthetic oil instead of conventional oil?

[hk20000]

yes, bring your own synthetic oil.

Also modified cars are ok.