Man I haven't posted for ages.

So yeah, after 3 accidents and 2 years, I'm now currently beyond my 30K mark, and my dealership wants me to come in to do a scheduled full maintenece on the car.

Maita Scion/Toyota, currently is going to bill me for a whopping 327.99 for the whole entire maintenence: change oil, spark plugs, inspect fuel lines, inspect brake lines, test drive... etc...

now to the point. I have my intake in, as well as after market lights. I'm not too worried about the TRD Muff I have because well, that's a part I got from the dealership. Should I do the swap-er-roo with my stock lights and stock air box or will I get in trouble by the so called "Techs" that will look over my car.

Any suggestions? Thanks ya'll!!

 

i go to my dealer with my lights and cold air intake all the time with no problems

 

but that my friend, you live in GA.. hehe I wonder what people from CA have to say... cuz, we're not supposed to have such goodies in our car...

unless the techies or the law over there in GA is different :D

 

Your CAI should be carb approved, if its not, its up to you to risk having someone see it.

They really can't say anything about the lights unless they are that sorta delearship (get my drift).

 

Yup! ... I'll see what I can do then.. yaay.. thanks for some information...

 

WOW $300+ for a 30K service? Did you ask for the factory-per owners manual maintenance or one of the dealer "30K Service Requirements?"

RE: Intake

Magnusson-Moss Act protects car enthusiast like yourself. The dealer needs to prove that your aftermarket part/non-factory-dealer install, is the caused of a particular problem. Since you are not even going to the dealer for a problem, don't sweat it. Now if they say "something is wrong this and that" then ask them to prove it and have them put it in writing (on dealer service paper).

 

dealership shouldn't care about your CAI or lights

and you are an '05.. so every CAI out there should be CARB legal for it.

 

Not true at all. Manufacturers have to apply for an E.O. number and pass a series of tests in order to get the CARB exemption. Just because he has an '05 doesn't mean all intakes are legal.

Check the Air Resource Board of California website to find out if the intake you have is CARB legal or not. In reality, none of that even matters when a cop or smog official pops your hood. Even if you have a CARB legal intake, if you have no sticker you are still going to get a ticket and fine. You will have to fight it in court and present evidence to prove that your intake is in fact legal for your car.

 

The dealership knows these things are made for trickin' out. I would be shocked if you had any problems.

I'd leave everything the way you have it.

 

I doubt you would have any problems. In regards to all intakes bieng CARB approved I may stand corrected her but I believe that to be incorrect. In fact from what I have seen and researched every CAI is not leagl here in the great state of Cali. People still have them yes, in fact you see them everywhere. I don't think the dealership is going to call the popo on you though if that's what your worried about. I think the CARB thing is absurd. They need to monitor the factories spewing the crap ni the air before they worry and harras our little cars for tearing up the environment. Just my couple cents.

 

Thanks folks. I appreciate the input.

Back to the Pricing, yeah it's pretty riddculous. I mean, I seriously can put in spark plugs on my own, or even change my own oil...I'm just not sure about the other stuff like, those "line" inspections that they're gonna do....and what not...iono...

 

the spark plugs (or so I was told) shouldn't need to be replaced till 100k

 

Weird aint it? I mean, thats what they suggest in the form...

Shoot, i should copy paste what I have so you can all see...

The 60,000 mile maintenece is like 500 bucks.

I swear, Maita never gave me an option for all paid maintenence. My friend who bought his tC at Folsom Lake has an all paid option...yeah, he can just go there at 30K and not worry about the payments cuz well, he paid it in the beginning when he bought the car... hehe..

 

same here I think I bought the extended 100k warranty with a $50 disappearing deduct

 

Ok so I was wrong, check what Scion has on their website - dang I'm surprised.

http://www.scion.com/owners/maintenance/schedules/

 

I can tell you this the dealership didn't inspect crap like they were sposed to, they spent 10 minutes with my car at every oil change, who do I talk to about this?

 

AFAIK, any aftermarket intake is not CARB legal on any '06 because of the charcoal filter in the airbox. Yeah, and Cali is another story altogether!

 

mark on your oil filter and your plugs with a sharpie that way when they are done you can tell if they really did the work you paid for i have cought my dealer ship two times back to back by doing this
rob

 

As the Outline of New Features for 2006 says:

 

maita is cool. worst case give damon or mickael at maita a call and explain what's going on . they'll look out for you .