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We've owned the car since new and Kept it serviced with regular oil and filter changes. Low engine oil light comes on at about 2000 miles after oil changes. We are using Amsoil. The car has never been abused but rather well taken care of. That price is not even for a new engine but just for changing those parts. They offered to shave some labor hours off to get the cost down for us. What the heck does THAT mean?Clearly the dealership costs are inflated. If indeed the pistons are worn heavily as they say, we have a very reliable shop that we use for our other car that we are going to call, get their opinion and an estimated cost to do the job instead. It perplexes me that they kept the car for a week only 3 weeks ago only to tell us that there is nothing wrong with the engine and that oil consumption was normal for the mileage....and suddenly 3 weeks later they found a problem of this nature. The tailpipe does have black !Removed!, but no visible smoke comes out. Don't know those compression numbers either.

We own a 2005 GS300 w/over 150,000 m. Dealership telling us for a year high oil consumption is due to high mileage and nothing wrong with engine internally. Now all of a sudden they figured out the pistons, valve rings, and bearings need to be replaced @ a cost of $7,000. After months of taking the car in to find out why, they now have done an oil consumption test to figure this out. Should pistons need to be replaced even at this mileage? Would like to know b4 dropping a few thousand bucks.