How often should you service your car?

youngmum_2

Yearly? Every 6 months?

What do you reckon peeps?

newlywed

Each car has a recommendation for different levels of service. These are usually put at X number of miles or X months - depending on which comes first.

So if you are a high mileage user then you should have your car serviced more often than someone who only drives small amounts.

Zeitgeist

It's also important to have your oil and oil filter changed in between services. If you are handy you can do this yourself.

youngmum_2

Zeitgeist wrote: »

It's also important to have your oil and oil filter changed in between services. If you are handy you can do this yourself.

Nope, not handy, lol! Would this be expensive to get a garage to check and do?

greyteam1959

Zeitgeist wrote: »

It's also important to have your oil and oil filter changed in between services. If you are handy you can do this yourself.

Certainly do not agree with this post..........
Service your car according to the manufacturers service schedule there is absolutely no point ( other than wasting money of course) on changing your oil and filter between services.

nearlyrich

mervyn11 wrote: »

Certainly do not agree with this post..........
Service your car according to the manufacturers service schedule there is absolutely no point ( other than wasting money of course) on changing your oil and filter between services.

Plus on modern cars you need a computer to clear the engine management system when you drop the oil. My OH has a friend who decided to change his oil in between services and it cost him a fortune to get the garage out to clear it as it wouldn't start.

As others have said each vehicle has a recommended service interval and for low mileage drivers at least once a year, mine usually has two:eek:

gareth12_2

every new car thats over a certain year recent year has to allow the user to reset the service lights via the dash. its the law. not all cars need it to be reset and changing the oil and filter would certainly not stop the car from starting no matter what car. changing the filter and oil is real easy, depending on what car the hardest part will be taking the undertray off on the floor. what car you got

Quinny_2

I change my oil every 6k on my Peugeot 406 HDi.

The reason?

I only pay for the filter,the oil is free.

Ken.

Hintza

You have to remember that service intervals for some cars are set far too high this keeps the fleet bean counters happy.

If i was planning on keeping car for any length of time I would probably change the oil and filter between 6,000 and 10,000 miles regardless.

The other job i would do is the timing belt well before the official time. Timing belts are the curse of modern cars with many suffering from premature failure.

Stephen_Leak

I get my 10-year-old Mk2. Mondeo serviced every 10,000 miles, which is approximately yearly. Some things (ie. cabin air filter) are due every so many years, others (ie. spark plugs) are due every so many thousand miles. I do as much as I can myself.

However, I get the oil and filter changed (at National Tyres for either £20 less 10% for online booking, or £15 with a voucher from a national paper) every 5,000 miles. It is like an internal interim service.

The cambelt (and the pulleys and tensioner wheels, etc.) is due every 5 years or 50,000 miles, whichever comes sooner. Therefore, mine is due this year, even though the mileage will only be 90,000. As a true MSE, I will be getting the Ford kit of the parts online for less than the garage charged me back in 2002!

mcfisco

A lot of lease companies now ignore the intermediate services [oil & filter] & only insist on the main ones.
I guess they have done their sums - cost of services against any any reducution in the residual value.