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Service used to be a bigger part of a dealership's profits than it is today.
All cars are more reliable, the service intervals are 2-3x as long, and the service requirements are much less.
Plus, once a car is out of warranty, most people don't bring them to the dealership anymore, they go to independents. This % increases as the car gets older.
If you think about the average service requirements for the first 4 years of a car's life, it really isn't much. Just ballparking it, that's 4 oil and filter changes, 1 or 2 brake fluid flushes, maybe an air filter or something, but that's about it.
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