Justhad the routine service done by the Honda dealer on our 04 Accord EX. The service writer said the tech noticed acarbon buildup on the throttle body. They wanted $89 to clean the throttle body.

I know this would belong in a different forum however they also they wanted $69 to change/flush the power steering fluid....is that a normal issue after 4 years??

 

Telling you your throttle body is dirty is a common ploy grease monkeys use to get you to waste your money for them to "clean" it. All they do is add something like seafoam (under $10 at auto parts stores), then they charge you someithing like $100. Changing the PS fluid after only 4 years seems a little overkill to me too. I would check the fluid myself and see if it is even dirty. Sounds to me like your dealer is trying to rip you off...

 

I wouldn't flush the PS fluid either ..... if it needs to be changed, go buy a turkey baster and some new fluid. If you're neurotic like me, do it 2 or 3 times a week apart.

 

Thanks, that is what I thought. The same dealership alsotried to get me for $199 rear brakes and $89 to flush/refill brake fluid.

 

Ask them how much a bottle of snake oil cost. Or some racing washer fluid.

 

ROFL! or some headlight fluid

 

^ .... like when KevinAccord sent that kid into the store to get an HID gas refill!!!!

 

I was thinking of the old "blinker fluid is low" trick.

 

LOL .... ask them if they can fill up the air in your brakes ..... uh, maybe not. They might just do that!

 

And then charge you more to bleed the air out lol.

If you are mechanically inclined you can take off the intake tube and spray carb/intake cleaner in there and then open the butterfly with the car off and scrub the carbon and wipe it out. Might be difficult if the '04 has drive-by-wire like my moms Acura does... the butterflys with servos on them seem hard to open.

BUT, my instinct tells me they just want more money and that there probably isn't much carbon build up anyways. My 14 year old Accord didn't even have that much carbon...