River, im getting quotes from Dealerships that range from $1700 - $1070.
Try not making accusations that I didnt do my homework and shop around by first asking my local dealership their prices.
Congrats on your $600 90k service job. I'll mail you a cookie.
Relax, Francis.
When you post on a forum, you can only expect responses based on the facts in evidence. You open with (paraphrased) "where can I order OEM parts cheap because everyone knows you get screwed at the dealer?". Even in followup posts, you never mentioned that you'd already gotten local quotes.
Not that it changes anything I said. The fact remains the parts vendors' (online & local) price will be the same for OEM parts. The consumer (your) price from that vendor is then determined by shipping costs, vendors desired/needed profit margin, and your ability to negotiate. Econ 101...you've got to sell something for more than you paid for it. Dealer's got a service waiting room with free wi-fi, TV, newspapers, doughnuts, coffee, etc. in additional overhead compared to an online wharehouse only vendor yet mine still matches online prices without much effort on my part...refer to negotiation factor in consumer price.
Now, service at the dealer will be a sum of parts + labor. In my case, the dealer clearly either charged less time than the book or absorbed the parts costs into the labor since T-belt labor alone would have been 5.5 * 94 = $517 (add more for add'l parts). BTW, good luck finding a dealer that will let you bring in your own parts for a T-belt service. I imagine you'll even have trouble with most Indy shops. If you do get that lucky, I'd expect them to charge you full book (remember, 5.5 hours just for the T-belt). Even if you go with a non-OEM parts for $200ish, you're still knocking on the door of your $1k quote and probably have no warranty at all due to customer supplied parts.
If you want to go non-OEM parts, well,
let me Google that for you. I'd probably go with the RockAuto kit for $150ish. If you search the forum, you'll probably find other sources since this is the umpteenth timing belt thread...
Don't trouble yourself with a cookie. I tried to be helpful by sharing my own recent experience so you could have a point of reference...your only real difference *should* be labor/tax, depending on your people skills (or lack thereof). Especially since it sounds like you have a number of local dealers competing with each other. My next nearest Toy dealer is 1.5 hours away so there's no real service competition besides the Indy shops if you want OEM and factory certified techs.
One last pointer. You keep saying "90k service". Is that what you asked for when you called your local dealers? A better approach is to get pricing on exactly what you want done...a dealer's idea of 90k service can differ from what Toyota calls for.
-Brent
. Good luck. And I'm interested in what you find out as well bc will be the in about 20k miles.
