How often for car service?

fret_wimp2 · 20-09-2017 09:41AM #1

I have a 3 year old diesel car.
It was serviced last year and has done about 15k since then.
It sits in the driveway monday to friday as we use public transport for work and is only used at weekends.

It now tells me "service due" each time i start it up.
I think this alert is based on time since last service, not mileage, so someone who uses a car 7 days a week would get an alert at the same time as me, who only uses it 1-2 days per week.

Whats the general thoughts, just pay the few hundred quid and get it serviced or get another few months out of it?

grogi · 20-09-2017 09:43AM

fret_wimp2 wrote: »

Whats the general thoughts, just pay the few hundred quid and get it serviced or get another few months out of it?

I think you know the answer to your question, but you don't want to accept it. Now you're just looking for reinforcement of you belief.

Just sell it.

shietpilot · 20-09-2017 09:44AM

Every 10000 km or 1 year. Whichever comes first.

never_mind · 20-09-2017 09:46AM

fret_wimp2 wrote: »

I have a 3 year old diesel car.
It was serviced last year and has done about 15k since then.
It sits in the driveway monday to friday as we use public transport for work and is only used at weekends.

It now tells me "service due" each time i start it up.
I think this alert is based on time since last service, not mileage, so someone who uses a car 7 days a week would get an alert at the same time as me, who only uses it 1-2 days per week.

Whats the general thoughts, just pay the few hundred quid and get it serviced or get another few months out of it?

I think it's more of money racket getting services done. I just get it NCTd and put a bit of black tape over the service notification on my wheel LOL.

Kimbot · 20-09-2017 09:47AM

shietpilot wrote: »

Every 10000 km or 1 year. Whichever comes first.

Is it not 10,000 miles or 1 year?

Either way you are well due a service OP.

07Lapierre · 20-09-2017 09:48AM

What Make/model of car are we talking about?

shietpilot · 20-09-2017 09:50AM

jonnycivic wrote: »

Is it not 10,000 miles or 1 year?

Either way you are well due a service OP.

Manufacturers list out all kinds of different intervals from 10000 km to 30000 km. If you want the car to last, service it every 10000 km / 6000 miles and you'll have a sweet engine.

Long intervals are killers for an engine, especially if the owner doesn't check the oil levels often and the engine burns a bit of oil.

fret_wimp2 · 20-09-2017 10:04AM

grogi wrote: »

I think you know the answer to your question, but you don't want to accept it. Now you're just looking for reinforcement of you belief.

Just sell it.

I dont, if i did i wouldnt have asked. I had an idea, but not being anywhere close to being an expert in cars, decided to ask a group who might be more knowledgable.

Thanks for no help.

Everyone else, you have helped, I'll get it serviced next week.

Sam Kade · 20-09-2017 10:50AM

Any diesel car I had I changed the oil and filter every 3.5k miles.

Toyotafanboi · 20-09-2017 11:17AM

Sam Kade wrote: »

Any diesel car I had I changed the oil and filter every 3.5k miles.

That's not really practical for most though.

In fairness, if you stick to the manufacturers intervals with the recommended oil you will have no issues, the intervals the manufacturer sets are conservative as they are.

I'd say a general rule of thumb for any modern car is 15k kms or 12 months.

honda boi · 20-09-2017 11:26AM

I think ford recommend 10,000miles for service for my cmax 1.6tdci.
But I do it every 6-7000miles.
Read horror stories with this engine leaving it to 10,000miles.

grogi · 20-09-2017 11:56AM

Toyotafanboi wrote: »

In fairness, if you stick to the manufacturers intervals with the recommended oil you will have no issues, the intervals the manufacturer sets are conservative as they are.

Or just do the service when the car tells you to...

07Lapierre · 20-09-2017 01:05PM

grogi wrote: »

Or just do the service when the car tells you to...

Not all cars tell you. (at least mine doesn't..i just get it done every 15,000k as per the service booklet that came with the car)

shietpilot · 20-09-2017 01:07PM

grogi wrote: »

Or just do the service when the car tells you to...

This doesn't work if you do little mileage.

Voodoomelon · 20-09-2017 01:14PM

Sam Kade wrote: »

Any diesel car I had I changed the oil and filter every 3.5k miles.

That's just silly. If you'd have waited until 10-12k miles on all your diesel cars, they'd still all be on the road running just fine. Waste of money and resources.

The yanks are obsessed with this, oil changes every 3-5k miles.

grogi · 20-09-2017 01:16PM

shietpilot wrote: »

This doesn't work if you do little mileage.

Weird... Works for me... And works for OP.

07Lapierre · 20-09-2017 01:17PM

shietpilot wrote: »

This doesn't work if you do little mileage.

It should. What car do you have?

The Backwards Man · 20-09-2017 01:19PM

I just leave the sump plug loose and throw a gallon of oil in her every evening.

Seriously though, good oil every 15k and you won't go far wrong.

Toyotafanboi · 20-09-2017 01:22PM

shietpilot wrote: »

This doesn't work if you do little mileage.

Most modern cars will count in days & operating hours as well as miles.

shietpilot · 20-09-2017 01:23PM

grogi wrote: »

Weird... Works for me... And works for OP.

07Lapierre wrote: »

It should. What car do you have?

Depending on how new the car is, the service interval light only comes on when the service mileage has been exceeded. Time isn't generally taken into account so if you do 5000 miles a year on a car that requires an oil change every 15000 miles, you end up only servicing every 3 years.

blade1 · 20-09-2017 01:38PM

My service document says
Private Owner 10,000miles/Every Year
Business Owner 12,500miles/Every Year

Whichever comes first of course.

07Lapierre · 20-09-2017 01:40PM

shietpilot wrote: »

Depending on how new the car is, the service interval light only comes on when the service mileage has been exceeded. Time isn't generally taken into account so if you do 5000 miles a year on a car that requires an oil change every 15000 miles, you end up only servicing every 3 years.

Agree, which is why knowing the Make/model and year of the car would help.

166man · 20-09-2017 01:42PM

Full service every 15k km.

Oil every 8k km. Even paying someone to do it you'll see change from €100 for parts and labour. It's such small cost for something with such value. No oil, no engine.

jca · 20-09-2017 01:56PM

shietpilot wrote: »

Depending on how new the car is, the service interval light only comes on when the service mileage has been exceeded. Time isn't generally taken into account so if you do 5000 miles a year on a car that requires an oil change every 15000 miles, you end up only servicing every 3 years.

Complete rubbish I wouldn't do 5000 miles a year, every car I've owned since 2004 will tell me a service is due after a year, which is when I get it done.

jca · 20-09-2017 02:00PM

Sam Kade wrote: »

Any diesel car I had I changed the oil and filter every 3.5k miles.

With modern oils you're wasting your money.

20-09-2017 02:26PM

Service every 15k kms, service depends on what's needed. Sometimes just oil and filters other times additional things like brake fluid if due.

I do about 15k kms per year so its basically a yearly service for me but if I was doing less I would get it done about one a year also.

mikeecho · 20-09-2017 02:30PM

My diesel car has a 30k km service intervals.
I have it serviced every 15k ish

The other car is a low mileage petrol, that gets a yearly service, although it should probably get 3 every 2yrs, and the extremely low milage bike, gets a diy service every year.

BrokenArrows · 20-09-2017 02:38PM

Service intervals are set for the average driver.
Each car has different intervals.

someone who constantly drives the car to its limits and revs the **** out of it constantly will likely require a service sooner than the manual states.
At the opposite end of the spectrum someone who drives very carefully, slowly etc could get away with extending the length of their service.

The reason they have a X miles or 1 year is because engine oil gradually becomes acidic and can corrode your engine from the inside. So you dont want to be leaving old engine oil sitting in your car for years even if your car hasnt been driven.

mikeecho · 20-09-2017 04:26PM

BrokenArrows wrote: »

Service intervals are set for the average driver.
Each car has different intervals.

someone who constantly drives the car to its limits and revs the **** out of it constantly will likely require a service sooner than the manual states.
At the opposite end of the spectrum someone who drives very carefully, slowly etc could get away with extending the length of their service.

The reason they have a X miles or 1 year is because engine oil gradually becomes acidic and can corrode your engine from the inside. So you dont want to be leaving old engine oil sitting in your car for years even if your car hasnt been driven.

The oil in my bike is still clean,
The dipstick shows clean new oil, but in considering changing it, as it's been there for over 1yr, and about 500 miles.

In the overall scheme, a gallon of oil is cheap.

Prevention is better than cure.

Sebastian Dangerfield · 21-09-2017 06:18AM

I got my 141 Hyundai serviced in a main dealer yesterday at 82k. They have marked the next service for 112k. Does that seem odd?

Toyotafanboi · 21-09-2017 07:33AM

No, the standard intervals on all modern diesel Hyundais is 30k kms. They take just fine to it.

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