Does The Chassis Need To Be Lubed During An Oil Change?, The manual makes no mention but the dealership does Options

[ryangrillo]

The only reason I would bring the car to a dealer for an oil change is they claim that they lube the Chassis. To me an oil change is simple enough to do in my garage but I don't know what the Chassis is or how to lube it, or if it is even required, or if this is all BS anyways. Maybe they don't even do that. The manual doesn't even mention this. Is it something thats required? Does it require a special lube gun or something?

[vizlay]

Your Sonata ( and all newer Hyundais ) does not require any type of chassis lube. There are no grease fittings on ball joints or linkage. A simple oil change, check fluids and tire air pressure check is all thats done on a normal dealer oil change.

[MiamiLX]

The only reason I would bring the car to a dealer for an oil change is they claim that they lube the Chassis. To me an oil change is simple enough to do in my garage but I don't know what the Chassis is or how to lube it, or if it is even required, or if this is all BS anyways. Maybe they don't even do that. The manual doesn't even mention this. Is it something thats required? Does it require a special lube gun or something?

If you don't know what a Chassis is, you probably should be visiting the Henderson Hyundai Superstore for Oil Changes. Even though I have questions about them?
One of the best feelings is getting to know your Service Manager(s) at the Area Dealerships. They are your friends to 2019, or 100,000 miles. They also go out of their way to help people they know at most locations. Las Vegas area Dealers have many complaints, even though one shop was open 24 hours. Ah Las Vegas!

[kn5owa]

The only reason I would bring the car to a dealer for an oil change is they claim that they lube the Chassis.

I love these scams - the dealer's ingenuity never ceases to amaze me.

The last car I had with real grease fittings (sometimes called Zerk fittings) was a '91 Caddy.

It would be interesting to have a special section on the Forum where we could post new scams.

[MikeyTX]

I love these scams - the dealer's ingenuity never ceases to amaze me.

The last car I had with real grease fittings (sometimes called Zerk fittings) was a '91 Caddy.

It would be interesting to have a special section on the Forum where we could post new scams.

Does spray on under coating for your floor mats count ? (IMG:style_emoticons/default/grin.gif)

[kn5owa]

Does spray on under coating for your floor mats count ? (IMG:style_emoticons/default/grin.gif)

I gotta have it!!!

Some of our local dealers in the Wash DC area are charging extra for nitrogen in the tires on new cars ***

I think this is a scam since air is 80% nitrogen. But the idea was thoroughly hashed out on another thread and a chemical enginer (as I recall) said that to get your tires up to the upper ninety percent level, you would have to fill the tires four times with pure nitrogen, or something like that. Then maybe you get some benefits.


*** Note: I said the dealers were charging extra -- whether you get the fancy gas is a question mark.

[rallyman]

You would know pretty quickly whether you actually got nitrogen in your tires. If not you will get the typical fluctuations in tire pressure with changes in ambient temperature. You will not get that with nitrogen filled tires.

I have never had nitrogen in my tires on any vehicle but my brother has it in his 2008 Accent and he has never had to adjust the tire pressures in over a year. That said I do agree that it is being used as a money making scheme by many dealers now. It has value in my opinion just not what the dealers are charging for it.

[yjbeach]

After all your free oil changes are used up, go to your local dealer. The Hyundai dealers in the DC area charge close to $80 for an oil change. The local guy I go to charges about $32 and fills it up using the oil out of the bottle not out of those huge 1000 gallon drums (or whatever they pump it out of).