My car is only worth a few hundred yet I service it properly, does that make me some sort of mug?
Auto transmission oil & brake fluid service?
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My car is only worth a few hundred yet I service it properly, does that make me some sort of mug?
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Why? If it breaks you.. have to buy another one. If you service it so it wont break you... wont need to buy another one.
Why are people obsessed with linking the value of something that isnt for sale with the cost to keep it running?
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To address maccapacca's comments in relation to the value of the car first. I take your point but you are talking about the market (resale) value of the car. I have had this car for years, I know how reliable and useful it has been and should continue to be given care and luck. What concerns me is that I have no way of judging whether work recommended by a garage is important and/or reasonably priced - hence this post.
To be honest, I can see entirely that it is almost certain to be a good idea to fill the automatic transmission and the brake system with new, clean oil. I don't know whether flushing the systems is a good idea or not although I suspect that it too would be a good idea despite some negative comment I have read on t'Internet.
Where things start to get tricky is assessing whether any particular garage (main dealer or independent) is competent and honest and thus whether they have done a good job.
Last year I had four new tyres, front disks and pads and some parts of the exhaust system supplied and fitted by a local independent dealership that came highly recommended. The car now sounds like a boy-racer's Fiesta and initially when I drove at 70mph, the steering felt as though I was using a pneumatic drill. They agreed to rebalance all four wheels which stopped the vibration but were adamant that there was nothing wrong with the exhaust - always a subjective judgement. The car got through the MOT with no advisories last year and again this year which is always reassuring.
As I said earlier, I will have a ring-round next week and get the work done . . . and I do appreciate the considered responses . . . and even smile at some of the mocking posts from the usual suspects
The financial side is somewhat void here because the prices are over-inflated!
An independent should be able to do the brake and gearbox fluid for £100 + change.
Don
Exhaust has nothing to do with this, the slightest change in exhaust shape/size can completely change the sound it gives..
Phone two or three local garages and ask for a quote
Phone two or three local garages and ask for a quote
Do you know what procedure it is for the slush box fluid change?
What's the garages labour rate?
What's the garages labour rate?
What I still don't get is why you have this car given the lengths you went to in order to convince us that owning a Hyundai i20 was far better than driving an older car. Infact you spent many threads arguing at length that any car which qualified for scrappage - of which this Toyota surely is one - deserved to be crushed.
It's completely at odds with the large arguments you had on this forum throughout 2009.
It's completely at odds with the large arguments you had on this forum throughout 2009.
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I didnt realise he was a corned beef tin Hyundai lover
I didnt realise he was a corned beef tin Hyundai lover
He is - which in itself is no bad thing - it's more the way that he spent so long arguing against us when we said it was a shame that perfectly good cars were being legally forced to be scrapped when people used scrappage. His argument was that any car qualifying for scrappage deserved it and was simply an old, unsafe, nail. As you can imagine this frustrated us greatly. This is part of the reason people often post 'lol stockhausen' as a blanket response to some of his posts - simply because of the relentless way he appeared in every thread to tell us how amazing his Hyundai was and how awful an older car was.
Therefore this thread is rather odd to find from him.
Don
Maybe so, but he's asking for advice, why not just give it to him. Or ignore the thread if you don't want to?
He's been given ample advice - he has exactly the answer to his question.
I'm interested in his opinion u-turn, thats all. It's about cars so whats the problem?
He's more than happy to give out the controversial opinions in his threads, why are we not allowed to question him on them
Like it has been said, a Gearbox fluid "change" and "flush" are two separate things and one requires a hell of a lot more ATF than the other
For example in my car the sump holds about 4 litres meaning that one 5L bottle of ATF (£23.99 from your local halfords) is more than enough. In contrast it's took an easy 12L for me to be happy with a proper flush. That's 3 5L bottles, otherwise known as £72 for the ATF alone and that's obviously excluding any labour on what may not be a particularly difficult job, but it's a particularly messy one (I will shake the hand of any man who manages to do it without stinking of ATF afterward). And God help if you your car requires that Type IV Toyota stuff, last time I checked it was something like £50 per 5L tin
.Then again, it probably doesn't really matter anyway as I absolutely guarantee the number of mechanics that will actually do a proper flush are in the minority
.+1[Corsa]Fox;17880344 said:He's been given ample advice - he has exactly the answer to his question.
I'm interested in his opinion u-turn, thats all. It's about cars so whats the problem?
He's more than happy to give out the controversial opinions in his threads, why are we not allowed to question him on them
The brakes and gearbox fluid are worth doing, given the mileage. However, those prices are astronomical, so have a ring around your local garages.
This has nothing to do with the original question in this thread and is not constructive.[Corsa]Fox;17880170 said:
Neither is your post. His question has been answered. I've explained my reasons for asking him a simple question which he has so far avoided answering.
His posts last year in Scrappage threads were also not constructive. If I revealed later on that I had a diesel Astra dont you think people would begin to ask me why, given my previous public thoughts on them? There is nothing wrong with my question - he's already had his original question answered numerous times.
His posts last year in Scrappage threads were also not constructive. If I revealed later on that I had a diesel Astra dont you think people would begin to ask me why, given my previous public thoughts on them? There is nothing wrong with my question - he's already had his original question answered numerous times.
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I think all Hyundai drivers should be called to account!
Bring on the next offender!
Bring on the next offender!
No Fox, this is another of your attempts to pick on someone in this forum. You can try and come up with some clever way of disguising it but that's what you're doing. For this reason I reported your post and I'll continue to report your posts when I see you doing it.[Corsa]Fox;17887009 said: