Should You Have to Pay for Diagnostic Fees?

I can understand why they might want to try to charge that fee...but dealerships are able to charge a wide-range of fees as long as folks are ...

Hi All, I'm know this topic has been covered in-depth before, but the typical question people ask is: "Should I have to pay for diagnosis if ...

if it is covered, you should pay the deductible, no more. call dodge customer assistance. i'm pretty sure they can help resolve this. Izzy ...

If they cannot find anything wrong, then they cannot get reimbursed from the manufacturer. Since someone has to pay, you pay. So if it's not ...

If you take your bike in and it turns out not to be a warranty issue, then yes, one would expect a diagnostic fee/s. If the problem turns out to ...

Typically most dealerships will charge you 1 hour of labor for diagnostics. Depending on their rate, about $125-150 or so. An independent shop's ...

If a code is logged the dealer can look into it further, but if your warning doesnt log a code then it gets hard. One would think that Kia would ...

It's easy to understand how being charged for a diagnosis – and likely a subsequent repair – that didn't correct your issue would cause one to ...

No that is certainly NOT normal. Warranty is there for a reason and you should not be charged for a diagnostic. I've owned 15+ cars under ...

If you do not want or need the car, see what CarMax will give you selling it to CarMax as is, do not tell CarMax about any of these possible ...

250 is very steep, and I don't personally think you should have to pay that if they aren't going to cover it under the warranty, since you have one.

That being said, you would be responsible for paying the diagnostic fee, being that this is something that the dealership requires in order to ...

If they can't reproduce the problem, they can't get paid via warranty coverage because they don't know what to fix. Getting an associated OBD ...

Pretty much every service dept has a diagnostic fee. it should have been disclosed when you made your appointment or when you dropped off the ...

They will charge for you the diagnostic check. Fixing what they find wrong is an additional cost. Why, because they can and also need to make ...

With some dealers (all the ones I've dealt with on many platforms) the diagnostic fee is waived when you opt for work to be done, you could try ...

Diagnostic fees are a rip off. Besides, diagnostics are done via the OBD port using software. They can't diagnose a leak. You do that with a ...

The dealer said if I brought the vehicle in before May there would have been no charge to diagnose the problem. What a rip off! Like.

If the diag shows the issue is not warrantied you must pay for the diagnosis. Of course they may hook up computers to your car to increase the ...

I have seen extended warranty deductables of like $50 per visit that cover as many issues you can bring to them. If it is not under warranty, it ...