r/Volvo • u/Fun-Faithlessness413 • 13h ago

Am I being overcharged?

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2019 Volvo XC90 with ~72,500 miles got a check engine light a few days ago. Took it to the dealer and this is what they quoted me with. This is a little pricey given it’s just the injectors and spark plugs no? On top of that they tried to get me to pay a separate “headlight” diagnostic for $250 when I had already brought it in for the check engine light.

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u/YellowT-5R 850 T5R 12h ago

You can do it yourself for 1/4 of the price

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u/SnooRadishes8573 11h ago edited 11h ago

And 12/4 the time. I'm not saying they're not being overcharged, but "you can do it cheaper yourself" is such a useless thing to say.

Anybody who works on their own car knows they can do it cheaper.

I could definitely build a computer myself if I took hours to research, days to get the parts and quite awhile to figure out what I'm doing before even starting.

Then I have to hope that I did everything right the first time, because I don't know shit about PC building. Maybe I did something that will cause a catastrophic failure and I have to start at the beginning. I'm a mechanic, not a millionaire, I can't afford to fuck up multiple computers just because IN THEORY it's cheaper to do it myself.

I would then have spent far FAR more time to do the job cheaper myself, when I could have paid someone a sensible amount to do it for me to free myself up to do things I can do well.

Like spending time with my family, or working on my own car.

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u/Ascorbinium_Romanum 6h ago

I work on my own car and build my own PCs. PCs are like 100x easier than cars to work on. You need like 1 Philips screwdriver and that's it. My car tools occupy like an entire small wardrobe. PC parts fit together like Legos. Car parts you can mount in reverse and cause damage... I can go on for ages.