[Daedalus]

Today - Blue coolant flush and change $280.

For an Ioniq 5? Do you have a breakout of parts and labor from the invoice?

 

[rbdavis808]

Today - Blue coolant flush and change $280.

'List price' on the coolant alone for both of my quotes was $90 per container (a gallon?) for a total of $270 on one quote (dealer #2 manual method wanted qty 3) and $360 on the other (dealer #1 with the pump wanted qty 4). We can have considerable shipping charges here depending upon how it's sent although I can't believe they would go air freight (although the dealers might claim that). Or maybe your dealer really did use blue koolaid?

 

[Rich5]

Ioniq 5, Parts $119.85, Labor $159.99, Hyundai dealer.

Since I thought the price was reasonable I had them do the pink coolant also. Parts $98.83, Labor $159.99. This was completely optional as it's not required yet according to the owners manual. But I have seen the results of leaving coolant too long in ICE cars and the resulting corrosion is not nice.
I could not see our car thru the small window in the seating area where you can view the workshop. But I did see them service a Kia ICE car using a nifty air operated device that did a flush and exchange of coolant quickly.

The main reason for doing this is to make sure that the warranty for the battery and drive train is good thru the 100k miles. After that I'll do all the maintenance. The car is at 64k miles now. If we keep driving this car like we have been, we'll be at 100k in 2 more years.

This car has been cheap to maintain. So far 1 set of tires, 1 set of wiper blades, and this coolant service are all we've paid for out of pocket. Way cheaper than any ICE car I've owned. Took a look at an Ioniq 9 while waiting. My thoughts on this was that I'll wait and buy a used one after the 100k mile warranty is over and it will be dirt cheap.

 

[Daedalus]

Ioniq 5, Parts $119.85, Labor $159.99, Hyundai dealer.

Since I thought the price was reasonable I had them do the pink coolant also. Parts $98.83, Labor $159.99. This was completely optional as it's not required yet according to the owners manual. But I have seen the results of leaving coolant too long in ICE cars and the resulting corrosion is not nice.
I could not see our car thru the small window in the seating area where you can view the workshop. But I did see them service a Kia ICE car using a nifty air operated device that did a flush and exchange of coolant quickly.

The main reason for doing this is to make sure that the warranty for the battery and drive train is good thru the 100k miles. After that I'll do all the maintenance. The car is at 64k miles now. If we keep driving this car like we have been, we'll be at 100k in 2 more years.

This car has been cheap to maintain. So far 1 set of tires, 1 set of wiper blades, and this coolant service are all we've paid for out of pocket. Way cheaper than any ICE car I've owned. Took a look at an Ioniq 9 while waiting. My thoughts on this was that I'll wait and buy a used one after the 100k mile warranty is over and it will be dirt cheap.

$120 means they most likely billed 2 gallons of the coolant, which makes you wonder how much they actually removed. A standard range I5 contains 2.32 gallons of blue coolant nominally (no heat pump) and all models with the larger battery have at least 2.96 gallons, nominally. The labor looks to be 1 hour perhaps, which seems cheap, considering the job should take 2-3 hours per the video the ioniqguy posted.

Going off on a tangent here, I can't possibly fathom why the pink coolant needs to be changed the 1st time at 120k miles or 10 years, and then every 25k miles or 2 years after that. Makes no sense whatsoever!

 

[FrankB]

Going off on a tangent here, I can't possibly fathom why the pink coolant needs to be changed the 1st time at 120k miles or 10 years, and then every 25k miles or 2 years after that. Makes no sense whatsoever!

It does seem odd. Perhaps there's some significant difference between the way the original coolant is installed and the way the replacement is installed.

For example - if temperature or oxygen exposure was a factor in degrading coolant lifespan, one might imagine the factory using refrigeration or an all-nitrogen atmosphere to address that risk when installing the coolant in a way that our local dealers could not.

But this is wild speculation on my part, based on no facts whatsoever (obviously!).

 

[SalisburySam]

But this is wild speculation on my part, based on no facts whatsoever (obviously!).

Wild speculation is one of the ways online forums are fascinating. And just adjacent to making stuff up, which is even more fun! There is that niggling risk of being called out though.

 

[DiDGr8]

Actually there were I5's that were recalled for LC Coolant change as they had the original BSC-1 coolant (part number 00232-19091) which suffered from crystallization issues. This was replaced with BSC-2 which is currently used in all I5's 2022-2024

This is concerning. I just went to Hyundai of Ft. Myers to get my LCC changed and they only charged me $180. They used a "coolant kit" (06-000035) for $48.91 and one unit of 00232-19091 for $85.32 (the rest was labor). At checkout they said they should have charged me $260 but they'd "honor" the original quote. Besides not being nearly enough fluid for a full exchange, now I'm worried about what they may have used.

I wasn't going to raise a stink over it before I saw your post. I've only got 15K miles but I'm at 3.5 years so I figured I better do it to satisfy the warranty. I didn't really think I needed it. Now I'm not so sure. It'll be a while until I hit the "mileage" requirement. Anyone got any input?

 

[Daedalus]

It does seem odd. Perhaps there's some significant difference between the way the original coolant is installed and the way the replacement is installed.

For example - if temperature or oxygen exposure was a factor in degrading coolant lifespan, one might imagine the factory using refrigeration or an all-nitrogen atmosphere to address that risk when installing the coolant in a way that our local dealers could not.

But this is wild speculation on my part, based on no facts whatsoever (obviously!).

Certainly has nothing to do with exposure to air. You can take off the reservoir caps whenever you want (unless hot!), and the systems are designed to cyclically vent pressurized air when hot and suck air back in when they cool, no different than many ICE cars.

This is concerning. I just went to Hyundai of Ft. Myers to get my LCC changed and they only charged me $180. They used a "coolant kit" (06-000035) for $48.91 and one unit of 00232-19091 for $85.32 (the rest was labor). At checkout they said they should have charged me $260 but they'd "honor" the original quote. Besides not being nearly enough fluid for a full exchange, now I'm worried about what they may have used.

I wasn't going to raise a stink over it before I saw your post. I've only got 15K miles but I'm at 3.5 years so I figured I better do it to satisfy the warranty. I didn't really think I needed it. Now I'm not so sure. It'll be a while until I hit the "mileage" requirement. Anyone got any input?

If the receipt and service records say you had the proper service done, then as far as the warranty is concerned, you're OK. In another 3 years, replace it again.

 

[FrankB]

Certainly has nothing to do with exposure to air.

In my defense, that was an attempt by me to offer a hypothetical example.

I should probably have said "if Feng Shui, Ley Lines or The Curse of Cthulhu was a factor...". But then I would have had to invent remedial actions the factory could take that were not available to dealers.

 

[thelostcanadian]

$310 plus tax at Fred Beans in Flemington, NJ. Also was advised to change the reduction gear oil in each motor, and I'll be DIYing that one. See Motor Gear Reduction Oil Notes

Invoice didn't offer breakdown of parts vs. labor because it was combined with a reduction gear oil change in one motor they mistakenly did for cheap after I called them out.

 

[Hsiaotsu]

$286 plus tax at Walser Hyundai in Brooklyn Park, MN. I called every dealer in the Minneapolis St Paul region and they were the lowest.