This service department is overpriced. Honda Civics from 2003-2005 have a known quality issue with the Fuel door getting stuck. So I call the dealer and ask if I can get a free ""diagnostic"". (Be careful, because the dealer will charge $50 just to tell you what is wrong with your car.) The service person agrees and I bring in the car. I come back down and the service rep recomends replacing the entire cable from the lever all the way to the fuel lid solenoid in the trunk. She says it'll take an hour and the cost of this replacement will be $447 in total!! Go online and the cost of an original cable is $50, a t yopical hour worht of a technician's work is $80 right? So they tried to charge me almost 3.5 times the real world costs of getting this done somewhere else. In the end I decided to do it myself, there's a website that has an excellent solution to this problem at fueldoorfix, it cost me $20 and 45 minutes to do it myself and it works great.
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