Which MB dealer are you talking about?

I pick up my oil when it goes on sale. $25.99CAD for the 4.4L jug x2. That's already $52 on just oil.

 

Seriously. My dealers all wanted anywhere from $300-$400 for just the oil change.

My buddy is a mechanic, I buy the oil for about $50 and he charges me $45 for an oem filter and doing the change.

 

I can see few members spending 10k in maintenance a year on this forum. BLKROKT comes to mind who actually tracks his car. One track session can cost you 2-3k depending on how hard you drive your car at the track. Rotors, brakes, tires can all be done for in one day.

I doubt that the OP is going down this route.

 

$3-400US US is insane. IIRC my local dealer was in the $150CAD range.

 

The figures are defintely exaggerated and it seems most of these guys are going to dealer every time or some "performance' shop. I forget these are the same guys that were telling members to stop *****ing about some V6 upgrade fee when members were promised no upgrade fee through EC. Just do what the dealer says, do what the shop says lmao. Buy ONLY 3k MBH headers the rest are garbage because MBH makes their headers embedded with diamonds.

If you do your own research, buy your own parts, SHOP AROUND, find a good indy mechanic/shop this car is very easy and cheap to operate. Aside from FUEL AND TIRES and that is all dependent on how you drive. You don't need trans/differential service every year thats a 3 year service that runs around $600 which is NOTHING if you think about it.

Really baffles my mind I guess some people just like to waste their money. Seeing some responses how MB charges $300-$400 for an oil change LMFAO are you guys that naive? Its called shopping around, call 3-4 dealers around you, look up coupons on dealer website print them, take them with you.....its just basic common sense. Yeah every dealer has coupons....I print them every time 15% off oil change, 20% off oil change. Audi has the best but MB does too and most dealers will even price match.

BMW dealer right next to my house charges $282 for an oil change. 25 miles away BMW dealer charges $59 for oil change. Same oil, same filter. My area has lazy wealthy people that wouldn't bother to drive 5 extra min to save some cash.

Just last weekend I went to Range Rover for a simple recall and state inspection. The SA must have though I was one stupid dumbass because the next day he calls me telling me I need $450 fuel injector service, $285 wiper blades and brake fluid $250. I forgot they also wanted $200 for an oil change LOL. I declined EVERY service, got my recall done. Picked up the wipers for $29 online, oil for $44 at Walmart, OEM filter for $12 at Range Rover and paid local shop $100 in labor to perform all services they even did the brake fluid flush. Less than $200 for everything that RR wanted nearly $1000 for.

Now I am sure there is many people out there crying about how RR is so expensive to maintain. SA and dealer make money by over charging. Every brand no matter what has this problem.

Another example. Used to have a Lexus with 3.5 V6 engine lexus charged $120 for oil change. Same engine is used in all other toyota v6 model. Same filter even, Toyota dealer charged me $55 for full synthetic oil change.

 

 

Just get a c63 with similar miles that way you are not going backwards. You want a nice car spend the money for it.

 

Although I didn't go through with the trade, it's good to have all the info you guys posted. Gonna wait a bit and go for a newer/less driven AMG.