Car Servicing in Oz - How Often?!!!
Discussion
In the UK you just service your car once a year or 10/12000 miles or as the car indicates.
However here it seems that everyones advised to service their car, and they do, every 6 months or 10,000k's. Its like owning an Evo!!
When asked people say its the heat, or its just what they do, and i think surely this cant be right. Its a big con.
So whats the PH collectives view on servicing here?
However here it seems that everyones advised to service their car, and they do, every 6 months or 10,000k's. Its like owning an Evo!!
When asked people say its the heat, or its just what they do, and i think surely this cant be right. Its a big con.
So whats the PH collectives view on servicing here?
I always just serviced according to the manufacturer specs. From my recent car searches most new cars available in Aus have an 18,000KM / 12 month schedule including the euro cars.
If its just a daily and you never drive it hard just go with the manufacturer specs.
My Impreza varies between services but I am going to begin doing 5000KM oil changes myself especially in the summer, turbocharged cars tend to mucky the oil a bit more and if your up it the engine oil is used to cool a turbo thats glowing almost white hot so its best to keep good oil in there!
Talking of Evo's....The Aussie service schedule is 4,500KMS, which is exactly the same as in Japan where the cars are manufactured and where they use KM to.
In the UK the service schedule is 4,500 miles...which is 7,242KMS. Maybe Evo's are not as fragile as people think!
If its just a daily and you never drive it hard just go with the manufacturer specs.
My Impreza varies between services but I am going to begin doing 5000KM oil changes myself especially in the summer, turbocharged cars tend to mucky the oil a bit more and if your up it the engine oil is used to cool a turbo thats glowing almost white hot so its best to keep good oil in there!
Talking of Evo's....The Aussie service schedule is 4,500KMS, which is exactly the same as in Japan where the cars are manufactured and where they use KM to.
In the UK the service schedule is 4,500 miles...which is 7,242KMS. Maybe Evo's are not as fragile as people think!
Aus is classed as a harsher environment so scedules can sometimes show this. My car has 10k intervals and the super extreme interval is 5 or 6k km for super harse use. Services seem to come around very quickly. I have been doing oil changes on mine every 5k km but gonna knock it on the head. Car doesnt get dribven hard enough to warrant it.
Yeah the Ultratune and Midas (Midasses for plural?) make their money out of scaring people in to a service and 12 new tyres.
Just go with the manufacturer specs, they are confident enough to put a warranty on the car with those specs so it must be good enough. Trundling round the burbs is not hard on a car no matter what the outside temperature.
If your using it hard do another oil change between services. If your going to start doing trackdays quite regularly you would need to start looking at gearbox oil, coolant life and brake fluid to.
Just go with the manufacturer specs, they are confident enough to put a warranty on the car with those specs so it must be good enough. Trundling round the burbs is not hard on a car no matter what the outside temperature.
If your using it hard do another oil change between services. If your going to start doing trackdays quite regularly you would need to start looking at gearbox oil, coolant life and brake fluid to.
Edited by deviant on Thursday 2nd April 06:38
Pommygranite said:
too true. definitely.
Frankly i am amazed how many aussies just dont know why they do some things and just shrug and say 'well thats just the way it is'
Frankly i am amazed how many aussies just dont know why they do some things and just shrug and say 'well thats just the way it is'
thats apathy for you. Lots of that round this way 
toomuchbeer said:
deviant said:
......hammering up to 80MPH+....
oh the dizzy heights of 128kph...
Doubt I'll see that any time soon
Think honda class harsh as most days over 40 degs, very sandy/dusty, satrt stop driving below 3km each time etc. I also think the uk is prob harder with the cold and wet.
I definately drove harder in the UK, actually scared to give it some out here, the tolerence is less than zero on most occasions. I may speed sometimes but dont want to be classed a Hoon...
I definately drove harder in the UK, actually scared to give it some out here, the tolerence is less than zero on most occasions. I may speed sometimes but dont want to be classed a Hoon...
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