Service Intervals

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This topic probably doesn't matter to most of you as I know there are a lot of low mileage cars out there, but unfortunately, my car has to earn its living and does over 600(very enjoyable!)miles per week. What I want to know is why when you buy a Corvette or a Monaro, you have 10000 mile service intervals, but my car with the same engine has 6000 mile intervals. Every service leaves me with a bill for over £400 and considerable hassle as I live in Norwich and Linden are in Northampton, meaning pricey collection from a halfway point as I don't have the time to take off work to take a day off every 10 weeks to get my car serviced. Most of my miles are motorway miles, would it really do any harm to stretch my intervals to 10000 miles? It would certainly help my pocket!

[slippery]

Sounds like servicing every 10,000 miles but with an oil change at the half way point might be a fair compromise. When I get a chance I will post a breakdown of the bills for servicing. I have made enquiries with Vauxhall about servicing and once I got them to realise the Monaro wasn't a van and got in touch with the correct dealership, I was told by Thurlow Nunn of Kings Lynn that they had no idea of servicing costs yet. They said the only Monaro they knew they had sold was a 3.8 litre which is, they say, also the engine size of their demonstrator. When I questionned them about the 5.7, they said Vauxhall may introduce this later on as a 'special'. I think there is a very real danger that Vauxhall are actually making these cars so hard to buy through a lack of knowledge within their dealerships, even the 16 so called specialists, that the car may end up being killed off, because the corporate suits will think there was insufficient demand. The lack of professionalism is an absolute joke and enough to put off any prospective purchaser.