I got quoted £60 for an oil change by my trusted local village garage is that cheap ??

 

not too bad considering youl spend atleast £40 on decent oil and say £10 for a filter just make sure they prime the filter before it goes on.

 

just do it your self mate its not hard i done mine cost me about £30 £10 for oil filter and the rest on oil

 

Not bad at all

I'd have a go at doing ours myself but I'm so rubbish at this sort of thing I take it to the garage

 

If this £60 is an all-in price, they're either including a cheap oil and filter and won't be taking very long on the job, or they're including good oil and filter and will be allocating about five minutes worth of work.

Neither is a particularly good way to look at it. Also bear in mind that no matter how trusted your local village garage are, if they don't have specific experience of changing the oil on an Impreza properly they might inadvertently screw your engine up - see various threads on here about engines letting go shortly after an oil change, plus the ways of avoiding it.

If you can follow simple instructions, you'd be better off spending the £60 on some top quality oil, genuine filter, and a can of beer, and DIY.

 

Do it yourself with top notch oil

Mobil 1 0w 40 4 litres costco £22
Castrol 10w 40 costco £20 for 4 litres both fully synthetic

 

iv just dun mine £42 for millers 10w 60 fully synthetic 5 litres and you need 4.5 litres and a fiver for fillter ,,,so say £50 and you know its got the good stuff and not cheap ,,,easy job ,,peeps on hear will help if ya get stuck

 

I agree with above, do it yourself and you know you get a good job done and good oil in there too. Never ever trust a garage if you ask me.

 

It's not good value if the oil is crap and costs a tenner.

Cheers
Guy

 

Castrol don't do a 10/40 fully synthetic. You're probably refering to Magnatec which is semi-synthetic.
If he doesn't want to get his hands dirty,the OP could always supply his own oil and filter (get it from Oilman?) and get the village garage to do the job. When they quote £40 labour, ask why it was only £20 to supply the parts! They would probably have used a general purpose oil that they buy in bulk and get the filter from their trade supplier.

JohnD

 

An Impreza has got to be the easiest car to change oil (and filter) on

you hardly have to jack the car up and the oil filter is really accessible

I could do mine start to finish in 10 mins

(I didnt have the undertray on -- so add 15 or so for that)