https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jBpMe36GoW0
Oh noes!
I could yap about this all day. More importantly, I learned from the Youtube comments that the best mechanics to work on your car are Hispanic. That's the kind of information the people need, CBC. Come on now. Canada, eh?
CBC News investigates service dept fraud
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LOL
south africa we wait until something brakes or completely doesnt work until we fix it.
yeah, I noticed South Africa is still not fixed and it was broken when I visited it in 1970.
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Alright I'll bite for a few items.
Late model used cars need almost no service, except for a few select things (cabin air, say). Or if it's a Honda you have to adjust all the valves and do a timing belt every 5 minutes for some reason.
But for older used cars, for my own personal vehicle, I'd do some of the things these guys bitch about. There are two reasons why the advice technically stands, though:
1) Taking into account the profit centers that are service departments, most extra maintenance is going to blow out your wallet
2) Generally I think people don't really care what happens to the car after 100k, 150k and certainly not 200k. Even if some aggressive maintenance done early will vastly extend the life of components, most people won't own the car long enough to benefit from having done that. This is nothing other than a disposable mentality, veiled as "well, by the time my power steering pump fails from mileage, I sure as hell won't want to look at this car anymore," even though that is probably true.
Some cars need more actual preventative maintenance than others. Some cars can run 200k on half the oil capacity with dirty oil. Others get a couple quarts low and all of a sudden your variable cam phase actuator stops working or whatever. Some cars really do not have lifetime brake fluid. Unless you know which car you have, given my DIY approach, I'd rather over maintain. But I wouldn't recommend someone pay dealer prices for PM - maybe a good independent shop. You know, the kind that Hispanic mechanics work at.
Late model used cars need almost no service, except for a few select things (cabin air, say). Or if it's a Honda you have to adjust all the valves and do a timing belt every 5 minutes for some reason.
But for older used cars, for my own personal vehicle, I'd do some of the things these guys bitch about. There are two reasons why the advice technically stands, though:
1) Taking into account the profit centers that are service departments, most extra maintenance is going to blow out your wallet
2) Generally I think people don't really care what happens to the car after 100k, 150k and certainly not 200k. Even if some aggressive maintenance done early will vastly extend the life of components, most people won't own the car long enough to benefit from having done that. This is nothing other than a disposable mentality, veiled as "well, by the time my power steering pump fails from mileage, I sure as hell won't want to look at this car anymore," even though that is probably true.
Some cars need more actual preventative maintenance than others. Some cars can run 200k on half the oil capacity with dirty oil. Others get a couple quarts low and all of a sudden your variable cam phase actuator stops working or whatever. Some cars really do not have lifetime brake fluid. Unless you know which car you have, given my DIY approach, I'd rather over maintain. But I wouldn't recommend someone pay dealer prices for PM - maybe a good independent shop. You know, the kind that Hispanic mechanics work at.