On another message board, I was trying to talk someone into an E46. Someone else commented that BMW parts were very expensive.
I decided to look up a few random parts and compare the costs between a 2003 BMW 330i and a 2003 Lexus IS300. I also asked a friend that works "in the industry" to look up the shop labor times for replacing the random parts.
This is what I found (parts cost source: autohausaz.com - always the least expensive choice selected):
Obviously this speaks nothing of reliability, but it's interesting nonetheless.
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interesting & thank you..just proving more to me why i will own one. good work.
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I own BMWs and a Toyota Sequioa and the Toyota costs more to maintain for normal maintenance (i.e. brake jobs, fluids, belts, hoses, etc) (and I'm not comparing to the BMW free maintenance before someone questions that). My BMW indy mechanic does the work on all of them b/c we take our BMWs there so labor rate is flat. And its a Toyota which I'm guessing parts are less expensive then those for Lexus.
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Huh, that's very interesting. Thanks for posting that.
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We have both a BMW and a 1996 Lexus ES, which everyone knows is a luxury clone of the Toyota Camry. It's a good thing many parts are interchangeable, because the prices that the Lexus stealership charges are downright expensive. $1100 for rear struts/shocks? $741 for valve cover gaskets? Lexus does not mean cheaper parts than their european counterparts, and I know firsthand.
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I had a 1996 sc400 and then a 1999 sc400 which i loved, but it was not cheap to maintain. The recomended 15k mile service was over $600 for the 15k and over $1k for the 30k and 60k. I had some other maintenance items done, water pump and timing belt (kept the car for 111k miles) and it was a pretty penny for it as well. Lexus cars may run forever, but it will cost $$$ to get them to do so in normal maintenance if you use Lexus. I am looking foward to free maintenance the next four years.
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