Self Servicing Cars

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Hello,

I'm going to soon be doing about 20-24k miles per annum for at least three years and want to keep my car in tip top shape with regular oil changes and servicing.

I know that major services and such will be done at a dealer but would prefer it if I could save some money and service my car every 6k or so with new oil and oil filters etc.

Is it worth servicing your own car? Will it effect the value long term? Does anything other than the oil and oil filter need changing? The car is a 06 Fiesta TDCi.

Any handy self service guides you have would be appreciated.

Thanks,
 
Thanks for the information gents.

I agree that on such a new car it would be silly to service it myself (didn't think of that :S).

The service schedule is every 8k which is pretty reasonable. I can't imagine the car will be worth much once I'm done with it due to the amount of miles it will have. I'd rather keep it and buy something sporty for the weekends anyway. :).

Thanks,
 
One of the reasons for asking about self servicing is that my girlfriends father changes his car oil every 4-6k miles and has seen some amazing results with his last car reaching 330k miles. Not bad for a 1.5 Toyota Engine.

Still, I think in my case it won't be worth it as I'm going to pretty much keep the fiesta until it dies.
 
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