Although car maintenance is a required course for every vehicle owner, but always on a large nursing care you are not really car? Now, a number of community correspondents joint 4S shop in Chengdu after-sales maintenance person in charge, so that owners learn most provinces car maintenance Tips money overall.
Three vehicle maintenance to save money Tips
1, reasonably determine the maintenance cycle
"Scientifically determine the various types of maintenance operations mileage intervals, not only make the car good technical condition, but also save a lot of maintenance costs and repair costs." 4 Chuanjia Chi Po Chun 4S shop sales maintenance staff Yang told us, the general car good technical condition car, under good conditions apply to use, may be appropriate to extend the maintenance cycle; and the poor technical condition of vehicle, or the use of harsh conditions, should be appropriate to shorten the maintenance cycle.
2, take advantage of free testing
Now many car manufacturers have car owners free testing activities. "Can take advantage of these free testing activities of the car to conduct a comprehensive physical examination, the timely detection of a number of potential failures, and eliminate hidden dangers, eliminating the need for the future of the high maintenance costs." Master Yang said.
3, the right oil
Proper oil "oil" contains two categories: fuel, the second is oil. "Improper selection of fuel, is likely to cause fuel filter blockage fault, the engine idle speed instability occurs, poor acceleration and increased fuel consumption and so on, but also accelerate the wear of the cylinder, affecting engine life." Young Master recommended that owners purchase oil should follow the basic principles: to meet the requirements of the vehicle on the line, and only buy not expensive. Such as engine oil, for domestic cars, domestic SJ grade oil fully able to meet the requirements, no need to buy imports.
Vehicle maintenance tips
Mileage is not required to pay maintenance
Many owners believe that since the provisions of the factory warranty period, then the warranty period, as long as the car is not a problem caused by human factors, 4S shop owners should help unconditionally car repaired. In fact, it is not.
Miss Zhu Chengdu is the end of 2010 to buy the car, the car according to the "Maintenance Manual" provides that after the first maintenance should be done once every 5000 km run regular maintenance. But careless Miss Zhu has not been required to do maintenance. So when Miss Zhu found something wrong with the car engine, the car will be sent when the 4S shop maintenance, but was told to repair at their own expense.
This allows Miss Zhu Mongolia, "My car is still under warranty, why should his own pocket?" 4S shop explained: Failing to carry out regular maintenance deemed a waiver of warranty rights. Experts said that after users buy a new car, if not within the mileage to the 4S shop for regular maintenance and the use of designated oil or original parts, the car is very likely problems. In this case, even during the warranty period, businesses can only provide paid maintenance to the user.
Small parts to wear out of their pocket
Many owners also there is a misunderstanding: as long as the warranty period, parts of a problem, dealers should be free replacement parts. But the actual situation is not the case.
Mr. Fang car owners after less than a month, he was found badly worn wiper, so they went to the 4S shop for a free replacement, the result was told the part not covered under warranty, need their own money. In this regard, the reporter interviewed the person in charge of after-sales 4S shop learned that, due to the current regulations Auto Warranty countries do not, and some wearing parts such as glass, light bulbs, wipers, brakes, and so it is often difficult to define due to the use of the owner improper or quality problems caused by damage to the product, so manufacturers generally do not assume warranty responsibility.