Vantage service schedule
Vantage service schedule
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gibbon

Original Poster:

2,182 posts

236 months

Monday 11th February 2013
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So, a lot of the cars im looking at seem pretty low mileage.

My problem is on closer inspection a lot of them appear to have missing services.

Surely these cars need a services every 10k miles or every year depending on which is first right?


bogie

17,079 posts

301 months

Monday 11th February 2013
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yes, thats what they are supposed to have, yearly or 10K miles

yeti

10,685 posts

304 months

Monday 11th February 2013
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Correct. Don't make exceptions, if they've scrimped on scheduled servicing then go for another car. There are plenty of them.

There's a school of thought that says its ok to extend the intervals if you do low mileage. But these people are wrong and just trying to save pennies, they're incapable of running their cars right and should be avoided. Plenty of correctly looked after cars, FSH first and then buy on condition.

AMDBSNick

7,216 posts

191 months

Monday 11th February 2013
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My car is worthless

bomberh

634 posts

166 months

Monday 11th February 2013
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AMDBSNick said:


My car is worthless
yeah right, like you have missed loads of services with your DBS??? wink

From your image under your profile, nice car thumbup

If I had the money, I would PX my V8V for a DBS........if only.......I can dream hehe

yeti

10,685 posts

304 months

Monday 11th February 2013
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bomberh said:
yeah right, like you have missed loads of services with your DBS??? wink
Previous owner missed his first one yes

Mind you, it's been flawles ever since. One careful lady owner, a nun, never driven hard, straight stitching on the door cards etc...

But it goes to show that it can happen and not affect value. But I wouldn't buy a car where the owner had wilfully neglected servicing because they were cheap.

Neil1300R

5,766 posts

207 months

Monday 11th February 2013
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yeti said:
Mind you, it's been flawless ever since. One careful lady owner, a nun, never driven (owner always in the pub), straight stitching on the door cards etc...
EFA

gibbon

Original Poster:

2,182 posts

236 months

Tuesday 12th February 2013
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Yet another car checked yet another with missing services, I have never come across such prevalent poor servicing with any other marque.