Servicing my car

R

Rudd

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Hey guys,

My oil service is due in about 1000 miles; I’m going to do it myself as the car is over 6 years old and has had its Service 2 main service.

I was also thinking of doing a full service i.e. spark plugs etc but would like a little help identifying a couple of things.

1. If I want to do a thorough service what would I change aside from the oil, oil filter and spark plugs?
2. And if I do it what brand/spec parts and fluids would you recommend?

I don’t want to go to my local car shop and ask because I think they just guess what is best for the car based on price.


Cheers for any help


Richard
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How many miles since its last service?

Brake fluid is every two years which, even when I used to do my own, was enough reason to leave it to a garage. Air filter if enough miles. And coolant?

Is it worth checking the price of a local indy or even stealer doing it once you've priced the bits? Supply your own oil, obviously, but nr me they're not much dearer than a local garage at the reduced-for-older-cars rate (I don't think it's called that :oops: )
 
i have a relative that is a mechanic and can do it if i need to, i just fancy doing it myself.

the last service was at 3-33k IIRC and i now have 44k on the clock
 
Prob see when coolant/b fluid was last done then, ditto filter. When I used to do my car the local Bosch supplier was good value. But that was in the days of platinum spark plugs :D

I'd certainly wait till it's warmer tho :)
 
I have just driven back from work as I started the car I noticed the 'Oil Service' had flashed up with a little clock next to it.
I guess that means an oil service is due.
The trouble is it had an inspection 1 at 32k which was 8 months ago and i have only driven 3k miles since? Is this correct?
On the dash before it just had 12,750.......... now it has 'oil service 12750' Why?
 
antman84 said:
Isnt that how many miles until you have to have an oil service?
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well that was what I thought, but why just flash up?
it was not there before i can guarantee. normally when things pop up like that its an alert, no?
 
if you over run you get a minus (-) next to the number of miles on start up.

so telling you how many you have driven beyond

why it just appeared on your drive home? - no idea!
 
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