No service this year.
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2 years or 18k no where near either.
Why? Do you know something the manufacturers don't.
i've just had mine done, was supposed to be 20k or 2 year/whatever. i've barely done 7500, talked over w/ the dealer and they gave me about £50 off the price. i prefer to keep things as per the manufacturer's recommendations, but if i'd missed it i doubt the car would have fallen apart the next week.
Didn't you just contradict yourself.
You prefer to stick to it at 20k/2years. But did it at 7500?
I'm going to stick to mine and either do it when it hits 18k or March 2022.
I'd only be comfortable staying on 2yr/18k if all the journeys making up the lower mileage were still long individually - based on VWs advice (my car being a Skoda) that such a schedule is aimed at people doing predominantly long journeys, fully warmed up, not pushing the car hard etc.
Do the car manufacturers know something the oil manufacturers dont?
As above, even VW's own advice is yearly for most people. Unless you spend all day on the motorway driving Miss Daisy.
Well for mine the basic service intervals is 18k or 2 years that's not called a long service or anything it's the only one listed. No mention of journey type either.
Though I do mostly 2 long trips a week for work.
Checked and the oil for mine is specifically 2 years life and that's on the Castrol site.
30,000km/24 months.
https://applications.castrol.com/oi...ndation?data=ec0cde4d2d6445a7758519dd40de0e90
Though I do mostly 2 long trips a week for work.
Checked and the oil for mine is specifically 2 years life and that's on the Castrol site.
30,000km/24 months.
https://applications.castrol.com/oi...ndation?data=ec0cde4d2d6445a7758519dd40de0e90
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I thought it was pretty standard across all brands, I know I begrudged paying Audi to service my car when it had barely been driven but it is what it is..
Regular short journeys every year or 9000 miles
Regular long journeys every two years or 18000 miles.
It is whichever comes first.
Regular short journeys every year or 9000 miles
Regular long journeys every two years or 18000 miles.
It is whichever comes first.
no, it was 2 years.
There's no hard and fast rule for servicing. Some manufacturers will have different lengths based on how the car is used.
I actually have two on mine - oil and everything else. If i remember the "everything else" part is normally two years or something like 38k miles, whereas the oil was something like 2 years/24k miles. When i first had it, i was doing 25-30k a year, so the oil servicing was happening in less than yearly intervals. Although we did just do the "everything else" part at the same time - a set of filters doesn't cost a great deal.
I never understand why people are so against extended maintenance - like manufacturers are deliberately suggesting you do something dangerous to your car......but to what end?
We all know main dealers make a killing on servicing - so why ever suggest "long life servicing" be a thing?
Sure it is in the dealers best interest to have a customer back every 10/12k miles for an expensive service each year and not allow them to go 20k and only require one every other year?
Obviously the oils have been tested - yet for some reason, people think all of that is rubbish, and you should still be replacing everything at 10k miles.
Cool - your money etc.
We all know main dealers make a killing on servicing - so why ever suggest "long life servicing" be a thing?
Sure it is in the dealers best interest to have a customer back every 10/12k miles for an expensive service each year and not allow them to go 20k and only require one every other year?
Obviously the oils have been tested - yet for some reason, people think all of that is rubbish, and you should still be replacing everything at 10k miles.
Cool - your money etc.
I think that's it, stuck in their ways of old oils.
I'm going to follow the book and leave it this year. Even if I went back to work full time, next march will still be under 18k.
Also amusing when you then see Americans who think we're mental for going as far as 10,000 miles without an oil change, whilst they're changing their oil as often as they fill with fuel*
*may not be entirely accurate
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I've never had a car that's been under 10k between changes, even my 911 turbo was every 10k, and I believe current ones are 20kAlso amusing when you then see Americans who think we're mental for going as far as 10,000 miles without an oil change, whilst they're changing their oil as often as they fill with fuel*
*may not be entirely accurate
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No way I'm moving to servicing less than once a year. Aside from anything else, that yearly look over is a very good change to spot something that might go wrong in future.
Manufacturers going to extended or flexible servicing schedules is more about getting the massive fleet buyers onside I reckon. It's never going to cause problems in the first few years of a cars life anyway, so all they care about is minimised maintenance costs. But when the car is 6 years old, or 9? I'd much rather know that the car has been maintained yearly.
Manufacturers going to extended or flexible servicing schedules is more about getting the massive fleet buyers onside I reckon. It's never going to cause problems in the first few years of a cars life anyway, so all they care about is minimised maintenance costs. But when the car is 6 years old, or 9? I'd much rather know that the car has been maintained yearly.