Still some good deals at the dealership for bulk oil filters

not a good price, at all.

90915YZZN1 - Filter sub-assembly, oil - Genuine Toyota Part

MSRP $ 5.41

 

I thought the OP bought 10 filters for $7.53... which would make $0.753 each ... but upon re-reading the comment, OP does say

"Canada a box of 10 YZZN1 Oil Filters from a dealership for my 2018 Prius Prime, for $7.53 all in with taxes per filter."

Humm...? Besides, 10 filters will be more than the lifetime supply for a 2018 PP.

 

Last time I bought, at Open Road Toyota in Port Moody, a single filter was $9.49, so yeah: significant saving. Change the oil every 6 months; engine will appreciate it and you’ll get through them faster.

 

Does the Canadian manual say to do an oil change every 5000km/6mo? I know it's basically the same car, but the US manual and the Canada manual sometimes have a different maintenance schedule. As a US owner, all new Toyota vehicles are covered by free Toyota Care maintenance service by Toyota dealers for the first 25000 miles or 2.5 years (5 routine maintenance). I have not had to do any DIY maintenance other than tire swap on my three PPs so far. I don't plan to keep the car longer than 3 years.

 

Yeah, I am all for buying in bulk if saves money... but, I sometimes regret buying in bulk. As I said, I have not done any DIY oil changes on my PP, but for my first PP (2017 model with element type filter), I was thinking to start doing the oil and filter change DIY as it reached beyond the free Toyota Care milage. At that time I was planning to keep the car for a long time. I bought a bulk 10 filter from eBay for cheap... but I ended up trading in the car before I even had a chance to do my first DIY oil change on it. I still have unused fitlers somewhere. I would give them away for free, for those element filters can not be used on my current 2021 PP. They changed from element type to spin-on type in late 2017.

 

For third gen, in the Toyota Canada publication "Owner's Manual Supplement", it says 6 months or 8000 kms, whichever comes first.

For fourth gen, it says squat. Yeah. You have to go to the website to find out, and it's event-by-event, "real easy" to follow... Anyway, it says yearly or 16k kms, whichever comes first.

AFAIK all of the above are cut in half, for severe service.

Attached are my spreadsheet summaries:

 

Genuine Toyota Scion Oil Filter Filters (CASE OF 10) (SEE FITMENT) 90915-YZZN1 | eBay
$51.45 for 10. The seller is a Toyota dealer.

 

Yeah, but OP is in Canada. He is saying in Canada, the price he paid at the dealer is a bargain. This is probably true because when I buy an item on eBay from Canada, it always costs a lot more for shipping than buying from a US seller, so going the other way is also expensive.

 

If anyone in Canada wants to try eBay seller on OEM Toyota YZZN1 Oil Filters, this seller is the least expensive currently. The case of 10 ships from the USA shipping free. It comes out to be CAD $6.69 or USD $5.20. But yeah, if you are buying only 1 or 2, then the best you can find on eBay is CAD$11.58 (free shipping).
https://www.ebay.ca/itm/115178163857?epid=28042462886&hash=item1ad1274e91:g:OqgAAOSw1uJhznIX

EDIT: apparently, the Free Shipping is only within the USA. For shipping to Canada plus import tax would be added for buyers in Canada.

 

Oh, OK. You may be correct. I made sure to search for the item from eBay.ca (Canadian eBay site), not from eBay.com (US eBay site), but since my computer's IP address is in the USA, the pages on my computer may be showing the shipping within the US. Oh, well, I thought it was worth the try. I edited my comment above to reflect this finding.

 

I'm not a fan of OEM filter, they always feel lighter, maybe also smaller. This also apply to Honda's.
I stocked enough the following when it's $3 something,