Hello fellow Mustachians.
My car turned over to 150k miles last February. It's at about 153k now. I was thinking of having it serviced at the oil change in February. They always come out in the midst of the oil change and recommend this or that. This time, however, they recommended $4,000 worth of work. I laughed and said, "Well, it's obviously untrue that it suddenly needs all that, or I'm sure some of it would have come up during the last oil change." The service tech had no response, really, other than that these repairs should be done, or disaster might strike me. I'm sure they just wanted the estimated service to exceed the value of the car, so that I would think I needed a new one. Joke's on them! I'm a Mustachian!
Needless to say, I'm only going to use that dealership for oil changes, which come cheaper there than at most other places around here. I'll probably go to a Jiffy Lube or something similar for service and repairs.
I still feel like I should have something serviced, but I know little about cars. It's a 1999 Nissan Altima. I've had it for, oh, about 8 years. I put maybe 12,000 miles on it a year. I was thinking maybe a new fuel filter and a new oil filter. I had them do the air filter when they changed the oil, but that was the only one of their $4k recommendations I took. I also think maybe a wheel alignment?
This car runs great, and I love it. What, if anything else, would you recommend I have serviced? I got a list of the repairs the dealership has done over the years, so I can compare that to your recommendations, so things don't get done twice. I can post it if you like.