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Filter Replacement

Discussion in 'Prius c Care, Maintenance and Troubleshooting' started by tonia taffaro, Jun 18, 2014.

  1. tonia taffaro

    tonia taffaro Junior Member

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    I recently took my Prius to Toyota for an oil change. As a courtesy, they come tell you if any filters need changing. This comes at a price, of course. $35 for the air filter and $45 for the cabin filter.

    Do not allow Toyota to change these for you. You can easily change them yourself and save $50.

    I simply stopped at a local auto parts store and bought the parts myself for $35, went home and youtubed a video on how to change each. It took me less time to change BOTH filters than I was actually in the store buying them.

    Here are the links.
    Cabin Filter


    Air Filter

     
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    thanks tonia, great diy videos!(y)
     
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    yes, i am all about DIY.
    i'm not afraid to get my hands a bit dirty. if i can do it myself, i will.
     
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    I once had the dealer call me claiming that the cabin filter needed replacement for a filter that was 12 HOURS old. Now they are told to change the oil and rotate the tires. Nothing more.
     
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    oh thats just ridiculous. cant trust what they say.
     
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    i wonder if they really rotate the tyres. :cool:
     
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    i have another vehicle i get serviced somewhere else and as i was walking thru the parking lot, i noticed a woman crawling around on the ground looking under her car. after a few minutes she came inside and began to make a rukus about how her tires were not rotated. could have been an oversight but she mentioned the fact that she marks her tires for that reason. not a bad idea.
     
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    i like that, and a discreet mark on the oil filter too!(y)
     
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    too bad we cant mark the actual oil to make sure ITS changed too!
     
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    With the reused canister I don't think that's going to work, unfortunately.

    Unless the old oil was really clean, pretty easy to tell from appearance on the dipstick.
     
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    my oil always looks the same on the dipstick. if i take some out however, it is darker.
     
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    Why worry about being discreet ? Take a crayon and mark them LF, RF, LR, RR. I once had a service advisor argue with me even after I did that. He said "How do we know how you marked them before you came in ?" Then he went and looked. The rotation was done in about 10 minutes. His boss came out and apologized.
     
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    It's so hard to find a good mechanic that doesn't take short cuts anymore. If the compensation for mechanics were different, the customers would get better work done. Since they are paid on the volume of work they do, the faster they get through the jobs, the more money they can earn. It's kinda sad.
     
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    Nicely done! Much better than many of the so called "professional" DIY videos that are out there.
     
    #14 AliIzad, Jun 19, 2014
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