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Servicing intervals (Read 626 times)

Omegadoha, Desert Member Omega Knight Offline Posts: 1357 Doha, Qatar Drives: 3.2 V6 2002	Servicing intervals 20. Dec 2009 at 16:13 In the UK we only use our car maybe once or twice a year and will only cover around 1000 miles max or realistically a few hundred miles over a couple of months. Is it still worth getting the car serviced anually or is it case of judgement? The service interval is 9000 miles. At the moment I get it doen annually but it hardly gets used.
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Auto Addict Administrator Offline OOF's Elder Statesman Posts: 10091 North Birmingham Gender: Drives: 2.6 CDX	Re: Servicing intervals Reply #1 - 21. Dec 2009 at 10:39 I would get the oil changed, and trust to judgement. But that's me.
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Pete. Omega King Offline Makes Driving Pleasurable Again . Posts: 10449 Nr J28 of the M1 Gender: Drives: Black 02 Omega DTi. Black 56 Monaro VXR. Red 97 Rover 114 SLi.	Re: Servicing intervals Reply #2 - 21. Dec 2009 at 13:51 Auto Addict wrote on 21. Dec 2009 at 10:39: I would get the oil changed, and trust to judgement. But that's me. Agreed AA. Oil & filter change once a year despite the mileage & check all others. MY Trans-Am's did very low miles & i always changed their oil every year It doesn't cost much & takes so little time to do
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Omegadoha, Desert Member Omega Knight Offline Posts: 1357 Doha, Qatar Drives: 3.2 V6 2002	Re: Servicing intervals Reply #3 - 21. Dec 2009 at 14:07 Thanks for the responses. At the moment it has full service history, so I think I'll keep it that way.
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tunnie Over Active Poster Offline Posts: 22520 London, W3 Gender: Drives: 2.2 CD (LPG'd) & BMW R1200 GS	Re: Servicing intervals Reply #4 - 21. Dec 2009 at 14:57 i'd drop its oil, & coolant, thats about it. Thinking beind coolant is that its been stood for a long time, frozen, then standard temp, then frozen again, its never been brought upto standard engine temp
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Re: Servicing intervals
Reply #5 - 21. Dec 2009 at 15:03

tunnie wrote on 21. Dec 2009 at 14:57:

i'd drop its oil, & coolant, thats about it. Thinking beind coolant is that its been stood for a long time, frozen, then standard temp, then frozen again, its never been brought upto standard engine temp

On the coolant side, it might be better to use standard blue antifreeze as the long life OAT stuff can support algae growth if the system is not run up to temperature regularly. I'd still change it every 2 years though.

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Markjay Omega Lord Offline Posts: 5452 London Gender:	Re: Servicing intervals Reply #6 - 22. Dec 2009 at 21:24 Agreed with above. Wife does 1,000 miles a year on her car, and we service it every year. And don't forget the brake fluid which need to be changed every two years regardless of mileage...
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