I wouldn't trust even the manufacturers service centres !
A couple of times I've booked vehicles in for service [NISSAN & VW GOLF] and
given the dealers a list of safety related issues (at the time of booking -
week's notice) to fix, when I've gone to pick up the vehicles I've had the
story "We did the scheduled service, washed and vacuumed the vehicle, but we
didn't have time to do the other things you asked for, book it in for another
time".
You can imagine my response ! Absolute ARSEHOLES ! Needless to say I've never
been back to those service centres, found a closer private mechanic who
actually fixed problems !
...Wayne
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> From: olympus <olympus-
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> You re a bit anal, I think. I trust the mechanics to know more about cars
> than I
> do. My lowly Opel, bought in Switzerland, driven heavily in the Netherlands,
> then retired in Spain, lasted 360000 km with standard maintenance. Oil is oil.
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> Cheers,
> Nathan
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> > On 9 Oct 2020, at 20:31, Chris Trask <christrask@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> > Not a chance. This truck has lasted for over 230,000 miles because I
> > do all
> of the tune-ups and oil changes. If I took it to a local shop chances are
> they
> would put 5W-20 in it and it would all go out the exhaust pipe in a month.
> >
> >>
> >> Or you can do like I do take the car for service every 15000 km and
> >> forget about it.
> >>
> >>>
> >>> Duh! Hadn't even thought of that. With nothing to lose, I went
> >>> to the Walmart nearby and found that they had every Fram filter known
> to man.
> >>> I bought an air filter so that I can complete the tune-up this
> >>> weekend and the one that's in the mail will be for the next one.
> >>>
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> > Chris
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> > When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro
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