Owner was left stunned when she took her Subaru for routine maintenance and ended having to spend $1,000

All electric Porsche Taycan owner took his car for its first ever service and was shocked by substantial amount it costs compared to a gas or diesel car

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A Subaru owner in Charlotte, North Carolina had a bad day when she was handed a $1,000 bill for a routine car service.

When she took her Subaru to the shop for maintenance, she thought all she needed was an oil change.

As it turned out, the car needed a lot more than that.

And it ended up costing her 1,000 bucks – ouch.

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Why the service ended up costing the Subaru owner so much

Jaclyn Couch, a chemical engineer and content creator from Charlotte, North Carolina, took her Subaru to the shop for an oil change.

But when she got to the shop, the mechanic had to break the bad news to her.

The problem was the car had just clocked 60,000 miles, which means she was going to need the 60k checkup.

Automakers and dealers often set (usually arbitrary) mileage thresholds for checkups, usually after the first 50,000 or 60,000 miles.

But this is something a lot of people may not know about and, as Jaclyn correctly argues in the clip, automakers and dealers should probably be more transparent about it.

“I was told it was the 60k check in, I didn’t know anything about that. Why don’t they tell you about it in advance?” she said in her TikTok video.

In addition to that, she was told she also needed an oil change, new filters, new spark plugs, a transmission flush, and a brake flush.

What was supposed to be a $350 job escalated and turned into a $1,000 trip for this Subaru owner.

There’s a sales tax in North Carolina, and it’s even higher in Charlotte specifically, so we can only hope she meant $1,000 including taxes.

Are EVs cheaper to run than gas cars?

Jacyln’s experience begs a question, are EVs cheaper to run than gas cars.

The short is, usually yes.

EVs have fewer components, which means there are fewer things that can go wrong.

For example, she wouldn’t have needed new spark plugs, filters, oil change or a transmission flush with an EV.

EVs have been around for a while so we have a reasonably long track record to start drawing a comparison.

A Tesla owner compared the costs of running a Model Y to his Silverado and Honda CR-V, and the Model Y was infinitely cheaper to run.

You can save even more by using solar energy too.

That’s not always the case, though.

A Porsche owner who traded in his Boxster for a new electric Taycan was shocked to find out that a service for his Taycan was actually nearly twice as expensive as it was for his Boxster.