Originally posted by zerocool85:
err.. where to send my cars for servicing and checks? how do i go about doing that? do i have to make any appointment or stuff?? how often do we send the car for servicing? its approximately 4 yrs old.. 87000km on odo.. (donno if these info relevant)...
anybody know places near serangoon or anything? how much does a service cost?
sorry ah, donno anything about servicing, the responsiblity has been passed down to me since my dad passed away last year and my mum is swa koo..
thanks in advanced for the information..
Hi
If you're not particular, you can bring it to any workshop without appointment, coz you can always go to next workshop if the 1st one's real busy.
Having been around for 4 years, most shops worth their salt will know how to sevice your car. It's workshop bread and butter.
You have to service between every 5000km and 10000km, coz you have to at least chnage the engine oil and engine oil filter during this interval if you wanna keep your engine in good condition. You will have a choice of mineral engine oil, which is cheaper but have to change every 5000 - 6000km. Or you can choose synthetic engine oil, more expensive, but you need to change only about every 10000km. Each time you go for such servcing, just tell the workshop any problems you have with the car.
If you have the car manual, there should be a table inside that sez what to inspect / replace at which interval. Else, if you don't have the manual, you can let us know which car you are drivin and the bros here will direct you to a forum where you can really get answers for your specific car and maintenance for it.
As for cost, there's 2 components to everything. Cost of part and cost of labour.
If you know what you want, say engine oil, you can keep an eye out for a good lobang on these forums, buy it and bring it down to
workshop and just pay for the labour.
If you go down to the workshop empty-handed, synthetic oil + oil filter + labour may cost about
80 - 120, excluding other stuff that may be wrong with your car.
Hope this helps, and sorry to hear about your dad
