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Old 12-06-2004, 09:36 AM
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Diagnostic Fee?

took my car in this morning to have the defroster button replaced because it was cracked. i mentioned my brakes squealed and the whole front end vibrates when braking above 50MPH. the guy says we'll have to charge you a $59.99 diagnostic fee to see if your rotors are warped or not. WTF?
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took my car in this morning to have the defroster button replaced because it was cracked. i mentioned my brakes squealed and the whole front end vibrates when braking above 50MPH. the guy says we'll have to charge you a $59.99 diagnostic fee to see if your rotors are warped or not. WTF?
Either find another dealer or call Mazda North America Operations- that's complete BS.
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the funny part is i have already had my rotors resurfaced there for brake squeal once before.

EDIT: with no charge.

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Old 12-06-2004, 09:44 AM
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that's crap.

That actually happened to me when I brought my car in for a TSB. The woman who does the write-up said that the TSB was covered but that there was a diagnostic fee of $90. I said to her that the only reason I brought the car in was because had a service bulletin of a faulty part of the car, and she said it was standard. I said whatever, let me talk to the manager.

Once I talked to him, he said that I shouldn't be paying for something like that, and it was probably just a computer error that shows the time spent but wasn't zeroed out before processing.

Whatever the case is, something like that should not be chargeable.
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actually i just looked at the TSB on this again and it says additional diagnostic time and rotor machining cannot be claimed for this repair.
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