I went there to do the trany flush since my car has 92k miles and i dont know
if it had the trany flush before i bought it... well the stealership wrote down all the "Recommendations"

power steering fluid flush $109.95
break fluid flush $129.95
replacing brittle upper and lower radiator hoses $195.00
replacing e break cable $495.00
replacing seeping rear main seal $995.00 scary!!! (what the hell is that?)

are those things really need to be done? or they just want to make money of me? if so, can i do it cheaper? or even my self?

 

Wow. They just want their way with you. Almost all the stuff is DIY. The e-brake cable sounds like BS, the main seal might be needed but get other opinions. The power steering flush, all you need is a $1 bottle of ATF and a turkey baster. Brake flush, open all your bleeding screws and pump the gas pedal til fluid stops coming out. The rad hoses, buy the hoses and a screwdriver and get to work.

 

Dont let them bend you over American History X style...like stated, its all DIY.

 

I actually prefer the transmission drain and new filter to the "tranny flush" that is becoming what the dealer recommends. Brake bleeding is not a bad idea-apparently in Europe people change the brake fluid-but rarely in the states. I'd second the recommendation to do the powersteering fluid yourself. Rear main seals probably all weep on a '95. If your oil level remains good, it is probably slow. (You could probably buy a junkyard engine for 995 in case you had an unlikely catastrophic oil loss). Not sure about the e-cable, obviously more important for a 5 speed, but just use it till it doesn't work. Basically find an honest, local, mechanic that does Nissan work.

 

no such thing unless you know the guy

 

If they can't even spell "brake" correctly, I wouldn't let them touch your car.

 

hhaha me niether

 

Bleeding brakes isn't too hard (especially with speed bleeders), check out motorvate for both the power steering and ebrake cable and if you can drain the radiator (prob in the faqs) I expect you can do the hoses pretty easy while it's empty. With all that you'll probably spend like $100 in parts.

 

No one is talking about bleeding brakes. They wanted to do a brake flush, whatever the hell that is.

 

Basically a "brake flush" is bleeding the brakes, but rather than just bleeding the brakes enough to remove any air bubbles, you keep removing fluid until the dirty fluid stops being expelled and the fresh fluid starts coming out of the bleeder... its like bleeding the brakes, but doing it over and over until fresh fluid comes out.. (you have to keep topping the master cylinder with fresh fluid as you keep pumping the old stuff out). You do this at both front and rear brakes so that you have essentially flushed all the old brake fluid out of the brake system.

Nirav

 

Wow, they do rip you off over there. I recently got my brake fluid flushed at the dealer for only NZ$44.45 or US$23.71

 

Don't get a transmission flush. Do a drain and refill and drop the pan to clean it out. There are write ups with pictures on here. You can do all that on the list yourself.

 

That sounds like some of my recommendations! I work at a dealership also. Half of the time it is the techs recommending that stuff. Lets do a little math...

Flushes = Gravy
Gravy = Easy hours
Easy hours = Easy money

I mean a good tech will recommend what is needed.
A bad tech will recommend just about anything to make hours.

When a dealership recommends stuff. Check it out yourself. see if the fluid dark, or dirty. Check the rad hoses. It is an older car. If the hoses are original, They may be right. rear main seal is somewhat common on just about all cars for some reason. Look where the trans and the block meet. Is it dripping oil there? Alot of it is DIY. except for the big stuff, like the rear main. Just check your car over from what they recommend and go from there.

 

Same thing.

 

5 year old thread broski...

 

from a senior member

 

Sometimes searching is a bad thing...

 

Haha, they wanted to charge me 2300 for that one here

I said: You already have it apart!
They said: Thats what the book says to charge.
I said: Dumba$$

 

bahhhaa

 

HA!! got that right they mark up there parts up to 60% over cost
and since there work on Flagging hours they rush through you're car
its hard to find good tech's at a stealership

 

wholly threadvive fukcface! hahahha.

i'm gonna go out on a limb and assume these "problems" have not been fixed after 5 years. if this guy even still has this car haha.

 

So, did you ever get that done at the dealership? if not, how are them hoses holding up IF you still have the car? lol