Vehicle Servicing

21st December 2011, 21:05

By the looks of my car its never been serviced, what does a service include? Part and full?

Cheers... Thinking of giving the car a good servicing for what its worth, got more warning lights on my dash than my Christmas Tree!!

21st December 2011, 21:12

Part:
Oil
Oil Filter
Air Filter
Coolant

Full:
Oil
Oil Filter
Air Filter
Fuel Filter
PAS Fluid
Break Fluid
Gearbox Fluid Renewal
Coolant.

Do a full service

21st December 2011, 21:14

Air filter
Oil filer
Fuel filter
change oil
Adjust rear brakes
Tyre pressures

Etc etc

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21st December 2011, 21:20

Fair enough, full service pricing like £160? Do you supply the oils etc or?

21st December 2011, 21:39

Do it your self for under £100 i'd had thought.

21st December 2011, 21:42

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Originally Posted by logic_guy

Do it your self for under £100 i'd had thought.

Hmm, quite possible but not mechanicly minded, had the car a week or two and the dash lights now don't work and the engine management lights come on! LOL

Don't want to tempt fate anymore!

21st December 2011, 21:46

Ring up a few local garages and get a price , once you've got the best price from a reputable garage go for itv, failing that buy a full service kit and a Haynes manual and get dirty

21st December 2011, 21:51

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Originally Posted by joeturnerrfx

Ring up a few local garages and get a price , once you've got the best price from a reputable garage go for itv, failing that buy a full service kit and a Haynes manual and get dirty

Hmm sure it would be a good way to learn, but knowing me I will have oil poisoning by next week

21st December 2011, 21:54

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Originally Posted by Bondi

Hmm sure it would be a good way to learn, but knowing me I will have oil poisoning by next week

Oil Poisoning? You don't drink it!

Haynes Manual FTW.

Pick them up for £10 at the very most.

21st December 2011, 22:00

Quote:

Originally Posted by logic_guy

Oil Poisoning? You don't drink it!

Haynes Manual FTW.

Pick them up for £10 at the very most.

Knowing me ill be talking whilst draining the oil LOL, trust me the simplest jobs can go wrong with me...

21st December 2011, 22:13

Cost me £20 for my service

win win

Parts from pages cost pennies and it's pretty self explained!

Take oil filter off drain oil refit new one and full up with oil

Easy!

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21st December 2011, 22:20

Oil, oil filter, air filter, fuel filter, all fluid levels and spark plugs, if it neva had a service spark plugs probly causing engine management light tbh

21st December 2011, 23:20

You will be fine mate , I think it's good to have a basic knowledge of the engine and how to do certain jobs when the occasiOn arises , also don't think you will get oil poisoning , maybe dermatitis , get some rubber gloves if your really worried

21st December 2011, 23:37

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Originally Posted by Furio-Gaz-Saxo

Take oil filter off drain oil refit new one and full up with oil

Oil out first mate.

As said above, oil and filter, air filter, spark plugs, coolant, check wheels for play in the bearing, check ball joints, give everything a good check over (like bushes etc), serpentine belt, more than likely (if youve done more than 80k i think it is on a saxo) your cam belt should be changed. Id put an oil flush through her if you dont htink shes been serviced or if the oils duttyyy as fuck. Maybe some fuel cleaner, check your wiper blades, screen wash, lights, check for oil leaks (rocker cover gaskets are a fucker for this) and Box oil.

Basically, get a haynes manual if you dont know shit about cars if not pay a garage or mechanic, id offer for you but your farrrr away!

A proper service will do your car wonders, but not your wallet if your not mechanically minded im afraid!

21st December 2011, 23:39

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Originally Posted by sebring

Oil out first mate.

As said above, oil and filter, air filter, spark plugs, coolant, check wheels for play in the bearing, check ball joints, give everything a good check over (like bushes etc), serpentine belt, more than likely (if youve done more than 80k i think it is on a saxo) your cam belt should be changed. Id put an oil flush through her if you dont htink shes been serviced or if the oils duttyyy as fuck. Maybe some fuel cleaner, check your wiper blades, screen wash, lights, check for oil leaks (rocker cover gaskets are a fucker for this) and Box oil.

Basically, get a haynes manual if you dont know shit about cars if not pay a garage or mechanic, id offer for you but your farrrr away!

A proper service will do your car wonders, but not your wallet if your not mechanically minded im afraid!

In the last MOT advisory it said their is on oil leek but no specific

22nd December 2011, 00:05

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Originally Posted by sebring

Oil out first mate.

As said above, oil and filter, air filter, spark plugs, coolant, check wheels for play in the bearing, check ball joints, give everything a good check over (like bushes etc), serpentine belt, more than likely (if youve done more than 80k i think it is on a saxo) your cam belt should be changed. Id put an oil flush through her if you dont htink shes been serviced or if the oils duttyyy as fuck. Maybe some fuel cleaner, check your wiper blades, screen wash, lights, check for oil leaks (rocker cover gaskets are a fucker for this) and Box oil.

Basically, get a haynes manual if you dont know shit about cars if not pay a garage or mechanic, id offer for you but your farrrr away!

A proper service will do your car wonders, but not your wallet if your not mechanically minded im afraid!

I would strongly disagree.

All that old carbonated oil is nice and snug around your piston rings. Its plugged any leakes that you may have and is nice and sludgy around the valve seals.

If you add a detergent and clean all this out, you may cause your self some problem's.

My previous car had very litter service history. I ran it for 500 miles a time on Halfords cheap oil. I kept changing the oil and filter for a good 2000 miles. It cleaned the surface carbon off the parts but did deeply penetrate any gunk on the rings/ valves. When i was happy, i filled her up with a new filter with some premium oil. (You get what you pay for with oil)

If your really anal, send your injectors off to be cleaned.

22nd December 2011, 00:16

Haha true, btw I want that extra large crimbo hat

22nd December 2011, 00:23

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Originally Posted by Bondi

Haha true, btw I want that extra large crimbo hat

You cant, i'll loose 15bhp if i give it away lol.

22nd December 2011, 01:34

Theres alot more involved in a service than just the parts, id say on a full service the parts make up for about 30% of the work. full 60,000 mile service sheet for a saxo is 3 sides of A4 checklist

22nd December 2011, 02:45

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Originally Posted by logic_guy

You cant, i'll loose 15bhp if i give it away lol.

Bastard, wouldn't mind the power gain tbh, santa bhp ftw!

22nd December 2011, 11:52

dependant on milage I see your cars a mark 1 1.1, I'd recommend changing the HT leads too. 30 Second job, unplug old ones, and replace with new ones! As for servicing it, get a haynes and give it a go. I did! The engine is simple enough to work on and the manual is very good. Also you have these lovely people on stand by to help if your stuck

Oh and if you don't know when it was last serviced I'd run some cheaper oil through it for a few hundred miles to give the engine a good rinse out and then replace the oil filter and oil again, sounds a bit anal but the car shoud love you for it.

but just for my two cents Id say:

Air filter

Fuel Filter

Oil filter

Oil (doing what I said above)

BRAKE FLUID (it absorbs water as it gets older and looses effiency so make sure you do that!

Spark Plugs

HT leads

Coolant systm flush

Dependant on milage you may also need a timing belt kit and water pump renewal but I'd leave that one to a garage if your not 100% as thats the hardest job of the lot listed. The rest is very much do-able with a manual.

22nd December 2011, 12:32

gearbox oil is not technically a service item, as back when I used to mess with metros a fe years ago an ex Rover engineer told me the R65/MA box (same box as the saxo) is a sealed for life unit! God knows how they get to that conclusion frankly but luckily they do provide drain points however so its worth doing any way

26th December 2011, 16:43

ht leaads wtf you only change them if you need to.
tbf if your not mechanically minded them all you'll be able to do is the filters oil, and plugs.

as for checking the componants then yes most is common sense but even some may not be as 'worn' as you may think.

i'm a mechanic by trade and on my own cars i just do filter and fluid service but even so the coolant only gets changed every 2yrs, brake fluid every 3 yrs unless specified by manufactures. but saying that i service every 6 months and only do 3.5k a year lol.

but if its not been done in a while if i were you get everything done.
i'm suprised its not froze it's self with the cold weather as the blue antifreeze is only 2 year life

get that done but change it for 'pink' as thats 5 year long life stuff

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while your at it like people has said change the brake fluid. but be carefull you don't snap the bleed nipples.

change the gearbox oil aswell as it might not have enough in it

give the coolant system a flush through simple thing to do just poke a hose through untill the water runs clean

27th December 2011, 12:34

a full service would include:
oil
oil filter
air filter
brake fluid
fuel filter
cambelt
cambelt tensioner
water pump
aux belt
gearbox oil
tyre pressures
hand brake adjustment
coolant
pas fluid think thats all lol

27th December 2011, 12:35

oh and also change the plugs
and clean all breather pipes

27th December 2011, 12:36

i offer friendly car servicing a discount rates if ur interested

27th December 2011, 14:58

Not without paying to advertise you don't.

I charge £130 for a FULL service... Full Service includes: Oil, Oil Filter, Air Filter, Fuel Filter, Brake fluid change, Gearbox oil change, Coolant change, Spark plugs and a thorough checking over. Plus maybe one or two other bits if i find anything that could do with adjustment.

Cambelt and waterpump on an 8v engine is £170 including waterpump

27th December 2011, 17:31

i give a discount to sax p members and i dont pay to advertise on here

lot of people on here will offer to do it and make out there a proper garage bondi but most dont have any real qualifications or any sort of comeback if anything happens

thats why a proper garage tens to be a little more expensive as for them its a living, not just something there playing at