do you work for honda or something?You need to adhere to the maintenance intervals as posted in Honda user manual. Don't let other persuade you otherwise. After all, dealership when doing those services would be able to spot any potential problems early on and fix them instead of waiting for the problem to occur and it would be more costly to fix. For example, if a tire is about to fall off your car, the dealer would fix right away and save your brake/shock/suspension/ball joints etc. all of those parts that would be damaged were the tire to fall off while you're driving. Which would be cheaper? Moreover, this is your car and not other posters' car.
If one was assiduously getting their maintenance done at the dealer, and the wheels were nearly falling off by the next service, I would obtain service elsewhere, as somebody really screwed up.You need to adhere to the maintenance intervals as posted in Honda user manual. Don't let other persuade you otherwise. After all, dealership when doing those services would be able to spot any potential problems early on and fix them instead of waiting for the problem to occur and it would be more costly to fix. For example, if a tire is about to fall off your car, the dealer would fix right away and save your brake/shock/suspension/ball joints etc. all of those parts that would be damaged were the tire to fall off while you're driving. Which would be cheaper? Moreover, this is your car and not other posters' car.
In a gen5 CRV.... the onboard Maintenance Minder IS the expert. It keeps track of literally every normally required interval maintenance for the vehicle. It is even smart enough to pop a oil service on a one year calendar interval if calculated wear has not brought the oil life down to 15%. The MM literally does a 10% tick down on oil life ~ every 36 days.OP, follow your instinct. if you feel you need your vehicle checked out and maintained by the dealership, you should do it and not listen to the so-call "experts on the internet. You are not them and they are not you. if the dealership has a record of your car always up to date on maintenance, then when it's time for warranty claims, they can't find excuses to deny you.
There literally is no such thing as a "30K maintenance" in any current generation Hondas. Which does not mean there are no maintenance flags from the Maintenance Minder as you approach 30K miles... only that the dealer made this one up and I bet it is some fixed bundle of services they would like to do for a stated fee. Some MM flags are miles based, or calculated (like oil life) on a range of actual driving conditons, and some are time duration based.2017 CRV with 30,000 miles and no issues at all. Been changing oil every 5,000 miles, so getting time to do. Dealership wants to do a 30k maintenance service on it and maintenance minder only shows A1. Should I spend the money or wait to 50k?
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I don't disagree that it generally won't save money.In my experience, getting these extra dealer inspections have never saved me money down the line or prevented further issues. It’s a cash grab in my opinion. If there’s something wrong with the car, chances are you’ll hear it, see it, or smell it.
By then it could be too late.If there’s something wrong with the car, chances are you’ll hear it, see it, or smell it.
Nobody here is saying people should never get their maintenance done at the dealer. Just that when the car is there, you should only perform the maintenance called for by the maintenance minder, as opposed to whatever expensive made-up list the service department has come up with. Even if you refuse whatever additional crap the dealer wants to add on, you'll still have the dealership record of the correct maintenance being done on-time.OP, follow your instinct. if you feel you need your vehicle checked out and maintained by the dealership, you should do it and not listen to the so-call "experts on the internet. You are not them and they are not you. if the dealership has a record of your car always up to date on maintenance, then when it's time for warranty claims, they can't find excuses to deny you.
It could be too late, yes I agree. But it's about risk, and I think that risk is worth taking, when you're saving a couple of hundred bucks, which is likely what you'd spend anyhow if a repair came up.By then it could be too late.
I agree. And with a modern vehicle like a gen5 CRV.. the risk of something serious being wrong and there being no alerts from the vehicle to the driver is pretty low.It could be too late, yes I agree. But it's about risk, and I think that risk is worth taking, when you're saving a couple of hundred bucks, which is likely what you'd spend anyhow if a repair came up.
I haven't heard many cases where the dealer found something in those extra inspections that saved the Customer money down the line. They usually just top off fluids, check tire pressure, take the car for a test drive, etc ..., some of which are already done during an oil change.
(an exception of this could be a pre-end of warranty inspection - you can argue that there are benefits to that)